More than 200 healthcare organizations urged CMS not to finalize proposed limits on remote monitoring, warning the changes would disrupt care for about 1 million Medicare beneficiaries who manage chronic conditions from home. In a sign-on letter to CMS Administrator…
Legal & Regulatory Issues
EmblemHealth issued New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System’s independent practice association a cease-and-desist letter regarding its decision to stop accepting new patients from some of the insurer’s government-backed plans. The insurer sent Vincent Tammaro, Mount Sinai’s executive vice president…
Senate Democrats on Aug. 17 called on federal officials to end Medicaid enrollee data sharing with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Edward Markey, D-Mass., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Chris Van…
The trial over Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital’s policy of cognitive testing for physicians over age 70 will begin Aug. 27, CT Insider reported Aug. 19. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued the hospital in 2020 over cognitive testing…
The Justice Department and the State of Illinois filed a complaint in intervention on Aug. 17 alleging that a Chicago-area podiatry practice and its billing companies knowingly submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid, netting more than $5.2 million in…
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Boston-based Harvard University Medical School has agreed to pay $53 million to settle civil lawsuits that accused the school of negligence in its handling of donated human remains. The case centers on the conduct of Cedric Lodge, a former Harvard…
A group of 30 senators is pressing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reverse the cancellation of roughly 150 federal patient safety research grants and restore the funding behind them. In an Aug. 12 letter led by Sens. Richard…
From an international fugitive pleading guilty to his role in a $1.2 billion scheme, to a Nevada physician indicted in an alleged $95 million scheme, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases that Becker’s has reported on since July 30: …
Tarek Salaway, who served as CEO of Portland-based OHSU Health for less than four months before being terminated in March, has filed a $15.5 million lawsuit against Oregon Health & Science University. Mr. Salaway filed the lawsuit Aug. 13 in…
Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care agreed to two separate settlements tied to alleged negligence, according to an Aug. 12 report from The Gazette. In the first case, the health system will pay $500,000 to a former patient after…