The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 51-0 to include an amendment to the House' healthcare reform bill, HR 3200, that would require greater price transparency from hospitals and health insurers, according to a news release from the American…
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Eleven more California hospitals have been issued administration penalties by the state's Department of Public Health after it was determined that facilities' noncompliance with requirements of licensure caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients, according…
Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians has agreed to drop a surcharge added to patients' bills for receiving late-night care at five hospital emergency rooms in the Boston area, according to a report in the Boston Globe.
Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix has agreed to pay $675,000 to settle an alleged Medicare coding violation, according to a report by the Phoenix Business Journal.
Timothy J. McClure was sworn in as the new deputy director of the Indiana Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, according to a report in Inside Indiana Business.
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The Senate Finance Committee worked through issues related to proposed reductions in funding to Medicare during the second day of mark up on the Senate's healthcare reform bill, proposed by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), according to a report in the…
Seven employees from two different hospitals in Bronx, N.Y., were charged with accepting bribes to steer victims of minor injuries resulting from car crashes to clinics operated Daniel Levy, where they often received "months" of unnecessary care, according to a…
David J. Ciesla, MD, the chief of trauma surgery at Tampa General Hospital, has been suspended for 10 days without pay for allegedly keeping a bullet that he removed from the body of a fugitive he was operating on, according…
DCS Healthcare, the Medicare recovery audit contractor for hospitals and other providers in the Northeast, has released its first CMS-approved issues for audits, according to DCS Healthcare's Web site.
The Illinois Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on a hospital tax dispute issue, which could set a nation-wide precedent on whether non-profit hospitals need to provide a quantifiable amount of charity care in order to qualify for tax-exempt status,…