Anthem of Connecticut, a subsidiary of WellPoint, has offered hospitals a wavier that will allow them to participate in the state-subsidized insurance plan without risk of reduced rates from the insurer, according to a report in American Medical News.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
New York Gov. David Paterson has agreed to drop plans to reform the state's program that pays hospitals for providing charity care, according to a report by Crain's New York Business.
Wallace P. Berkowitz, MD, an otolaryngologist based in St. Louis, Mo., has been indicted on one count of healthcare fraud and 19 counts of making false statements related to healthcare mattes, according to a report in The Rolla Daily News.
Minnesota and New York are looking to join Massachusetts and Vermont in restricting industry gifts to physicians and enacting other measures to limit the influence pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers have in physicians' decision-making, according to a report in American…
A Texas nurse who alerted the state medical board about the unsafe medical practices of a physician at the hospital where she worked was acquitted of a felony charge for the "misuse of official information," according to a report by…
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AMA President J. James Rohack criticized a measure that would temporarily stave off a 21-percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians as a "Band-Aid approach," according to a report by Bloomberg featured by Business Week. The Medicare payment cuts are…
The Minnesota Attorney General is suing two Texas-based companies that sell discount health insurance cards, claiming they used deceptive marketing practices, according to a release from the Attorney General.
The former operations chief of a psychiatric hospital in Lemont, Ill. received a 15-month prison sentence for his role in a Medicaid kickback scheme, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
More than 500 physicians participated in a discussion, "FTC - Refusal to accept Medicare pricing = Price Fixing," on Sermo, an online community for physicians, according to a Sermo news release.
A former CFO at Tustin (Calif.) Hospital and Medical Center has agreed to plead guilty to paying kickbacks for the recruiting of homeless people from Los Angeles' skid row, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.