Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) stated to fix Medicare's current physician payment formula, which project steep payment cuts and may limit seniors' access to care, according to a news release from the American Medical Association.
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Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union held a rally outside the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center board's annual meeting to criticize the practice of Beth Israel and other Massachusetts hospitals of charge a fee for patients who are…
The health reform bill recently released by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) would require non-profit hospitals to adopt written policies on financial assistance to low-income patients and widely publicize them, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced S. 1681, the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act, which would "ensure health insurance issuers and medical malpractice insurance issuers cannot engage in price fixing, bid rigging or market allocations to the detriment…
New York Gov. David Paterson signed a bill into law that requires more reporting from hospitals on their staffing practices, according to a report in The Business Review of Albany.
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Rakesh Sahni, MD, of Rumson, N.J., Ravindra Patel, MD, of Scotch Plains, N.J., and Jasjit Walia, MD, of Edison, N.J., settled civil lawsuits by federal prosecutors, alleging that the physicians accepted kickbacks to refer cardiology patients to the University of…
CMS has basically upheld its previously stated rules on how hospitals and other providers can prevent recoupment of Medicare disputed payments during appeals of decisions by recovery audit contractors, according to a final rule published in the Federal Register.
The nationwide rollout of the permanent Recovery Audit Contractor program is currently underway, and providers in all states need to be prepared for these privately contracted auditors unleashed by Medicare to weed out improper payments. RAC experts offer the following…
A day after Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) unveiled his healthcare reform bill, Pres. Obama accelerated a program providing $25 million total in grants to states and health systems to test new ways of handling medical malpractice lawsuits, according to a…
The healthcare reform bill recently released by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) does not include minimum requirements for charity care for nonprofit hospitals, according to a report in Wall Street Journal's Health Blog.