In a letter led by Representatives Chris Gibson (R-Kinderhook) and John Katko (R-Syracuse), Republican members of the New York State Congressional Delegation encouraged other New York delegates to accept the HANYS-supported hospital outpatient department (HOPD) amendment.
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The Department of Justice obtained more than $3.5 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, with $1.9 billion recovered from companies and individuals…
The Senate passed legislation Thursday that would gut the Affordable Care Act of several fundamental elements, and this piece of legislation could be the first ACA repeal bill to land on the president's desk, according to The Hill.
CMS recently issued a final rule revising, clarifying and adding two new exceptions to Stark Law.
Kentucky's Republican senate leaders said they will not prevent the $250 million in state funding needed to pay for the state's Medicaid expansion program, according to The Associated Press.
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The following insurers made headlines in the past two weeks. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
Every day of 2015 marked more than one mass shooting on average. To address this issue, physicians delivered a petition to Congress Wednesday morning calling for legislators to lift the ban on gun violence research.
The latest bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act contains a provision to strip federal funding to Planned Parenthood. Three Republican Senators want to remove the item, according to The Hill.
CMS declared lofty goals in January when it announced its plan to shift 30 percent of all Medicare payments to value-based models by 2016. By 2018, the benchmark is to have half of all Medicare provider payments fall under an…
The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission's evaluation of three proposed mergers between health insurers — Aetna-Humana, Anthem-Cigna and Centene-Health Net — has left many considering the deals' potential implications.