AMA President J. James Rohack criticized a measure that would temporarily stave off a 21-percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians as a "Band-Aid approach," according to a report by Bloomberg featured by Business Week. The Medicare payment cuts are…
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The Minnesota Attorney General is suing two Texas-based companies that sell discount health insurance cards, claiming they used deceptive marketing practices, according to a release from the Attorney General.
The former operations chief of a psychiatric hospital in Lemont, Ill. received a 15-month prison sentence for his role in a Medicaid kickback scheme, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
More than 500 physicians participated in a discussion, "FTC - Refusal to accept Medicare pricing = Price Fixing," on Sermo, an online community for physicians, according to a Sermo news release.
A former CFO at Tustin (Calif.) Hospital and Medical Center has agreed to plead guilty to paying kickbacks for the recruiting of homeless people from Los Angeles' skid row, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.
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The Food and Drug Administration may toughen is approval process for 510(k) clearance for medical devices, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The move causes concern for medical device makers who worry that tightened approval processes could…
Cameron J. Justice of Crum, W.Va., owner and president of Justice Medical Complex, with conspiracy to misuse a physicians registration number and aiding and abetting healthcare fraud, according to a report in The Charleston Gazette.
The FDA unveiled an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from CT scans, nuclear medicine studies and fluoroscopy, the three procedures that are the greatest contributors to radiation exposure in the U.S., according to an FDA press release.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General released its Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committees report for fiscal year 2011 proposed budget, which included a $40 million increase to continue to support and increase efforts…
In what may be an unprecedented prosecution, Anne Mitchell was scheduled to stand trial Feb. 8 in a Texas court for "misuse of official information," a third-degree felony charge, after reporting a physician last April to the Texas Medical Board…