The Port St. Lucie (Fla.) City Council voted to move forward an ordinance that would make it more difficult for pain management clinics that dispense narcotics to open within the city limits, according to a report from TCPalm.com.
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Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (N.J.) has agreed to a $6.35 million settlement to resolve allegations that it inflated charges to Medicare patients to obtain higher reimbursements from the federal program.
The Senate version of the health reform bill, passed by the House on Sunday and expected to be signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday, will halt new construction and expansion of physician-owned hospitals, according to a statement by…
The House of Representatives on Sunday passed on a vote of 219-212 the same version of the health reform bill the U.S. Senate passed in Dec. 2009, opening the way for full enactment of the bill, according to the Wall…
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The House of Representatives' newly released draft reconciliation bill makes two key changes in the proposed ban on physician-owned hospitals in Congress' health reform legislation, according to a report by Physician Hospitals in America.
In a case that has been watched closely by tax-exempt hospitals around the country, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled the state was justified in stripping Provena Covenant Medical Center of its state property tax exemption because it did not prove…
The Department of Veterans Affairs was fined $227,500 for radiation errors related to prostate cancer treatments at its veterans' hospital in Philadelphia, according to a story in The New York Times.
The House of Representatives passed legislation HR 4851, according to a summary by the House Ways & Means Committee.
CMS will instruct Medicare contractors not to enforce supervision requirements for therapeutic services provided to outpatients in critical access hospitals, according to a report by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.