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.
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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.
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A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust case against Zimmer and Striker, according to a report in The AM Law Litigation Daily.
A Massachusetts federal judge dropped a whistle-blower lawsuit that alleged that some of the nation's top spine surgeons took kickbacks for promoting a Medtronic product, according to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.
Dante Nicholson, the former senior vice president of City of Angels Medical Center in Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to paying illegal kickbacks to recruiters who referred homeless patients to the hospital for unnecessary health services, according to a report in…
Here are the top ten states with the least amount of dollars spent for medical malpractice payments in 2007, along with total dollars spent, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.
Here are the top ten states in dollars spent for medical malpractice payments in 2007, along with total dollars spent, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.