The Courage Campaign Institute recently launched an ad campaign against Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and claims the system prioritizes its reputation over the needs of its mental health patients. However, Kaiser firmly denies those allegations and says the ads are…
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CMS' advanced analytics system, called the Fraud Prevention System, identified or prevented $820 million in inappropriate payments in the program's first three years, including $454 million in 2014 alone.
The former CFO of Morton (Wash.) General Hospital has filed a discrimination complaint with the Washington State Human Rights Commission and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the hospital alleging he was fired because he is gay, according to…
From a Chicago hospital kickback scheme leading to another conviction to a physician being sentenced to prison for giving healthy patients chemotherapy, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits.
Farid Fata, MD, a Detroit-area hematologist-oncologist, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for administering unnecessary chemotherapy to healthy patients to enable him to fraudulently bill Medicare and private payers for the treatment, according to the Department of Justice.
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Following the June 25 Supreme Court ruling on King v. Burwell, Americans' approval of the Affordable Care Act rose to 47 percent, the highest level since 2012, according to a Gallup poll administered between July 1 and 5.
Last month, Oregon lawmakers approved an updated nurse staffing law.
With the release of its third annual Life Sciences RiskFactor Report, BDO USA revealed that 96 percent of annual reports analyzed mentioned drug reimbursement as a risk, according to a recent Boston Business Journal article.
While surfing the internet late one night, I read about the strange tale of Washington Irving Bishop, one of the great mentalists of the late 1800s.
Orlando-based Florida Hospital may be facing two class-action lawsuits for separate data breaches that have occurred over the past four years, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.