Legal & Regulatory Issues

Rejecting Republicans' call for a fresh start on health reform legislation, President Obama is asking Congress for a final vote within weeks to reconcile separate bills already passed by the House and Senate, according to a report by the New…

Democrats' new push to pass their health reform legislation is reigniting concerns that Congress could ban any new growth of physician-owned hospitals.

Moody's Investors Service will require all rated not-for-profit hospitals and health systems to provide more information on their ability to convert investments into cash, according to a report by the Dallas Morning News.

President Don Mordecai and Government Relations Chairman Victor Long of the Oklahoma Association of Nurse Anesthetists spoke out against a controversial bill in the Oklahoma Senate that would prohibit certified registered nurse anesthetists from providing certain injections for patients with…

President Obama has signed a measure extending the federal subsidy of COBRA health insurance premiums for laid-off workers through March 31, according to a report by the New York Labor Law & Employment Report.

President Obama will consider adopting four proposals Congressional Republicans suggested in last week's healthcare summit on the president's health reform legislation, according to a letter the White House sent Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress.

Following up on Congress' one-month extension of the Medicare physician fee-fix, a new measure in the Senate would further extend the fee fix as well as federal assistance for state Medicaid programs and COBRA coverage, according to a release by…

The U.S. Senate has voted to delay the 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut until April 1, according to a news release from the AMA. The House previously approved the 30 day push back.

Congress' inability to pass a Medicare physician fee fix before the March 1 deadline means that Stephen B. Reznicek, MD, a urologist in Cadillac, Mich., has had to start turning away many first-time, non-emergency Medicare patients.

Robert E. Alick, the operator of a used medical equipment sales business and resident of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to five counts of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud and one count of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct…