A husband and wife are accused of stealing over 80 emergency room patient records at New York City-based Lenox Hill Hospital and taking over their credit card accounts to buy more than $300,000 in fraudulent purchases from high-end stores, according…
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If you are a hospital or health system that owns and operates an accountable care organization (ACO) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), or if you are seeking to participate in the MSSP in the future, then you…
Another nonprofit health insurance co-op will not sell individual health insurance plans for 2016, according to Bangor Daily News.
The following insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
Physicians are usually thought of as only being on the receiving end of a malpractice lawsuit, but it's not unheard of for a physician to launch such a case against another medical professional, according to the "Medscape Malpractice Report 2015:…
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Minnetonka, Minn.-based insurer UnitedHealth Group does not plan to pay broker commissions on the sale of individual health plans in many states where it participates in the health insurance marketplace, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.
Accountable care organizations create large networks that could run the risk of being deemed anticompetitive. However, it is competition that will help accountable care thrive, by driving quality and cost improvements.
Most physicians will be sued at some point in their career for malpractice, according to a recent survey from Medscape. The survey shows by the time respondents were age 60 and above, the rate who had experienced at least one…
More than half of malpractice lawsuits result in no award to the plaintiffs, according to recent survey from Medscape of roughly 4,000 primary care physicians and specialists.
More than half (59 percent) of physicians recently surveyed have been named in at least one malpractice suit during their career, according to the "Medscape Malpractice Report 2015: Why Most Doctors Get Sued."