The members of the Michigan Supreme Court voted 4-3 in support of an order that would change the deadlines for healthcare providers being sued for malpractice, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
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Surgeons at Wheaton Franciscan-All Saints hospital in Racine, Wis., have raised concerns over a change in hospital policy that uses more nurse anesthetists than anesthesiologists, in spite of a growing nationwide trend of this practice, according to a report in…
Several influential Georgia lawmakers won't support Gov. Sonny Perdue's plan for a hospital tax, saying hospitals are already struggling and might have to raise patient charges to pay for it, according to a report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The owners of Orthopedic Specialists DME in Corpus Christi, Texas, and an orthotist were convicted on charges of a complex healthcare fraud and kickback scheme in which they attempted to defraud both the federal and Texas Medicaid programs out of…
The city commissioners of Lake Worth, Fla., have voted to place a six-month moratorium on pain management clinics until the city can develop regulations managing them, according to a report in the Palm Beach Post.
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Anthem of Connecticut, a subsidiary of WellPoint, has offered hospitals a wavier that will allow them to participate in the state-subsidized insurance plan without risk of reduced rates from the insurer, according to a report in American Medical News.
New York Gov. David Paterson has agreed to drop plans to reform the state's program that pays hospitals for providing charity care, according to a report by Crain's New York Business.
Wallace P. Berkowitz, MD, an otolaryngologist based in St. Louis, Mo., has been indicted on one count of healthcare fraud and 19 counts of making false statements related to healthcare mattes, according to a report in The Rolla Daily News.
Minnesota and New York are looking to join Massachusetts and Vermont in restricting industry gifts to physicians and enacting other measures to limit the influence pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers have in physicians' decision-making, according to a report in American…
A Texas nurse who alerted the state medical board about the unsafe medical practices of a physician at the hospital where she worked was acquitted of a felony charge for the "misuse of official information," according to a report by…