Automatic implementation of a 21.2 percent Medicare physician fee cut on March 1 was a surprise to Senate Democrats who were stymied by a lone Republican senator, according to a report by The Hill.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
A bill has been introduced in the New Hampshire Senate that would create a three-person commission to set hospital rates, according to a report by the Boston Herald.
In a rare showing of bipartisan agreement, the U.S. House voted 406-19 to repeal health plans' exemption from federal antitrust laws, according to a release from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del., has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle claims made by a whistleblower that the health system allegedly paid kickback to neurologists for referring patients to its Wilmington hospital, according to a report…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released updates to the availability of propofol injections on its Web site.
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George Steven Kooshian, an AIDS physician based in La Quinta, Calif., was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to federal healthcare fraud charges for "subdosing" patients by administering doses of medicine that contained less than the…
Several cash-strapped state and local governments are considering new taxes on not-for-profit organizations, according to a report by the New York Times.
Testimony has ended in a trial over the proposed sale of Hemet, Calif.-based Valley Health System to Physicians for Healthy Hospitals, which alleges that the physician group influenced appraisers in their evaluation of the hospital district's assets, according to a…
Although a 21.2 percent physician fee cut is going into effect today, CMS has instructed Medicare contractors to hold claims for the first 10 business days to allow Congress time to pass a fee fix, according to a release by…
A bill that would permit physicians only to administer pain management injections into a patient's neck or spinal area passed the Oklahoma House by a vote of 55-33, split mostly on urban and rural lines, according to a report in…