Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.V.) is holding hearings to investigate whether or not healthcare insurers have "systematically short-changed" patients when they use out-of-network providers, according to a report in The New York Times and a news release from Sen.…
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists has sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel Levinson, urging his office to issue a Special Advisory Bulletin on the economic model, or company model, of compensation for…
A new law in Illinois will reduce what hospitals can charge uninsured patients and cap the amount of money they can collect in payment, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
The Obama administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services set new terms for private Medicare plans in an effort to protect patients from paying high charges, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
New York Governor David Paterson and state legislators agreed to a budget that includes $2.3 billion in healthcare cuts, which will help close a budget deficit of $17.7 billion, according to a news release from Gov. Paterson's office.
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The Methodist Hospital in Houston agreed to pay $9.9 million to settle allegations that it improperly increased charges to Medicare patients, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle.
The American Medical Association, in addition to several other medical societies, has filed a class action suit against WellPoint, accusing the insurer of participating in a scheme to shift costs to physicians and patients, according to an AMA news release.
On March 21, 2009, Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law the much anticipated and hotly debated amendments to the New Jersey law prohibiting self-referrals by physicians (commonly referred to as the "Codey Law"). One of the most important components…
The Colorado State House granted preliminary approval to a bill that would give hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars of federal matching funds to help up to 200,000 uninsured Coloradoans, according to a report by the Denver Business Journal.
A bill that proposed a crack down on Medicaid fraud failed, by a narrow margin, to pass in the Maryland State Senate, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun.