Legal & Regulatory Issues

Physicians at one of Mayo Clinic's primary-care clinics in Glendale, Ariz., will stop accepting Medicare as payment for services, according to a report in BusinessWeek.

Oswego (N.Y.) Hospital has agreed to pay more than $2.1 million to the Office of Inspector General for the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General to settle…

The Healthcare Financial Management Association is offering a side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate health reform bills, showing differences that will have to be worked out in the final bill, according to an HFMA release.

Conservative politicians in states such as Florida and Arizona are proposing measures to opt out of federal health reform legislation, according to a report by the New York Times.

Urban Treatment Center, a methadone clinic in Camden, N.J., is accused of improperly billing U.S. and New Jersey Medicaid for $906,910, according to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

In early December, when the U.S. Senate had not yet passed its health reform legislation, it looked like Bucks County Specialty Hospital, a 24-bed, six-OR orthopedics facility outside of Philadelphia, might be one of the last physician-owned hospitals in the…

William Holley, MD, a podiatrist based in Buffalo, N.Y., was indicted on 28 charges of healthcare fraud, alleging the physician submitted numerous fraudulent charges to federal and state health insurers, according to a report in The Buffalo News.

New York state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released audits that found the state Medicaid program lost at least $92 million due to improper payments, billing errors and poor record keeping, according to a report in the New York Times.

Officials in some 20 states with already expanded healthcare coverage are arguing that the health reform bill just passed by the Senate would unfairly penalize them for their expansions, according to a report by the New York Times.

Visiting Physicians Association, a home health agency based in Farmington Hills, Mich., has agreed to pay the federal government and the state of Michigan $9.5 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims…