Democrats and Republicans in the Florida state legislature have announced a bill aimed at fighting the $1 billion Medicare fraud problem, according to a report in the South Florida Business Journal.
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After months of financial uncertainty, St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Federal District Court in Manhattan, according to a report in The New York Times.
A hearing panel from the Health Systems Agency of Northern Virginia has recommended the denial of two proposals for new hospitals in Prince William County, Va., according to a report by the Washington Post.
After a conference call and several requests for information, Health Data Insights, the Recovery Audit Contractor for Region D (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming), has…
On Monday evening the U.S. Senate will vote on a one-month extension of the Medicare physician fee fix, which expired on April 1 but has been given a 10-day grace period by CMS, according to a report by the Medical…
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The new health reform law raises Medicaid reimbursements to Medicare levels, but only for primary care physicians and just for two years, 2013-2014, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
Five more states will join the original 13 states in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the health reform law's mandate for Americans to have health insurance coverage, according to a release by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, who originally…
A bill in the Nebraska Legislature calling for a 17-month moratorium on new hospital construction is still alive, even though a dispute over a proposed physician-owned hospital in Kearney apparently has been settled, according to a report by the Journal…
A legislative auditor found multiple billing issues at three hospitals operated by Louisiana State University, including inadequate control over financial reporting, inability to locate movable property and inadequate controls over consumable inventory, according to a report in The Daily Advertiser.
The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association has decided not to ask for an income tax increase on high-earning households to pay for the state's Medicaid program, according to the Phoenix Business Journal.