Legal & Regulatory Issues

Proposed regulations endorsed by the N.J. Attorney General would bar physicians in the state from accepting any kind of gifts and would require them to report all but the smallest income from pharmaceutical and device companies, according to a release…

The Food and Drug Administration is warning medical facilities to stop using the Steris System 1 Processor because the product has been significantly modified and the FDA has not approved the modified version, according to a notice by the FDA.

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…

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…

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.