Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford Springs, Conn., has agreed to pay $191,193 to resolve allegations that it improperly billed Medicare between 2000 and 2005, according to a report by the Hartford Courant.
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Eon Labs, a subsidiary of Sandoz, which is in turn a subsidiary of Novartis AG, has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the federal government to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicaid involving the company's Nitroglycerin Sustained…
CMS is proposing to raise payments Medicare Advantage payments insurers by 1.38 percent next year, according to a CMS release.
Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., agreed to pay nearly $2.8 million to settle allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by failing to provide the minimum amount of rehabilitation therapy required by Medicare, according to a Justice…
Five anesthesiology practices — Christus Schumpert Health System, Pierremont Anesthesia Consultants, Regional Anesthesia Consultants, Shreveport Anesthesia Services, and South Shreveport Anesthesia Service — in the Shreveport, La., region have withdrawn from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, effective Feb.…
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CMS has delayed a mandatory reporting deadline that would implement Medicare Secondary Payer reporting, according to a press release from the Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition.
The members of the Michigan Supreme Court voted 4-3 in support of an order that would change the deadlines for healthcare providers being sued for malpractice, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
Surgeons at Wheaton Franciscan-All Saints hospital in Racine, Wis., have raised concerns over a change in hospital policy that uses more nurse anesthetists than anesthesiologists, in spite of a growing nationwide trend of this practice, according to a report in…
Several influential Georgia lawmakers won't support Gov. Sonny Perdue's plan for a hospital tax, saying hospitals are already struggling and might have to raise patient charges to pay for it, according to a report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The owners of Orthopedic Specialists DME in Corpus Christi, Texas, and an orthotist were convicted on charges of a complex healthcare fraud and kickback scheme in which they attempted to defraud both the federal and Texas Medicaid programs out of…