The election of Republican Scott Brown, an opponent of the Democrats' health reform bill, as the new U.S. senator from Massachusetts has left Congressional Democrats divided on how to complete the reform process, according to a report by the New…
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The California Department of Managed Health Care has set maximum wait times for HMO patients who request appointments with physicians and is the first state to do so, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
Reliant Healthcare Partners expressed its concerns over plans to build 13 rehabilitation hospitals across Texas because the health system has recruited physician investors for the projects, according to a report in The Dallas Morning News.
1. After President Obama won the election in 2008, the Republicans have won the last three major statewide elections — all in states that voted democrat for President Obama in 2008 — Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey.
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has asked to remove from the Senate health reform bill an unpopular deal he secured on Medicaid funding for his state, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
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Four physicians from Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center have filed a qui tam lawsuit against the hospital and two physicians, claiming BRMC committed fraud and allegedly paid kickbacks to the physicians for nuclear cardiology services, according to a report in…
The United States has filed a civil False Claims Act complaint against New Brunswick, N.J.-based drug manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and two of its subsidiaries, Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems for allegedly paying millions of dollars…
A lawsuit filed in December by the American College of Cardiology against the Department of Health and Human Services for cutting Medicare reimbursements for cardiology services has been dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida, according to a…
Today's special election to fill the late Massachusetts' Sen. Edward Kennedy's seat is a critical point in healthcare reform efforts as Democratic Massachusetts' Attorney General Martha Coakley struggles to stave off defeat from Republican state Sen. Scott Brown, according to…
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons has asked Health and Human Services Director Mike Willden to examine a possible opt-out of the federal Medicaid program, according to a report by the Las Vegas Sun.