A new report, Recommended Actions to Improve External-Cause-of-Injury Coding in State-Based Hospital Discharge and Emergency Department Data Systems, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control outlines potential collaborative steps for the CDC…
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Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, S.C., proposed to pay its rival Providence Hospitals $15 million to acquire one of Providence's four CON licenses for open-heart surgery and to drop its opposition to a proposed Providence expansion, according to a…
CMS has set new limits on the number of medical records that recovery audit contractors may request, according to a release from CMS.
A new white paper from ECRI Institute outlines the Institute's top 10 technology hazards for 2010, with cross-contamination from flexible endoscopes topping the list.
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted preliminary approval of a $350 million settlement that would resolve a class-action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group by the American Medical Association and others, according to an…
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Use of Medicare-covered services varies by as much as 30 percent from region to region and fraud and abuse may drive some of the highest reported service use, according to a new report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
A class-action lawsuit alleging that the Florida violated Medicaid requirements, resulting in thousands of children receiving inadequate medical and dental care, according to a report by the Associated Press.
SCCI Hospitals has paid $830,000 to settle claims that its Detroit facility overbilled Medicare for services, according to a report by WLNS News.
Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City (Iowa) has agreed to pay the U.S. government $400,000 to settle allegations that the hospital overcharged federal healthcare programs for care for heart patients, according to a report in the Des Moines Register.
Rajashaker Reddy, MD, owner of Reddy Solutions in Atlanta, was arraigned in U.S. District Court on charges including wire fraud, mail fraud and healthcare fraud, according to a report in The Bulletin.