New for 2015, the CPT codes for vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty were revised to include radiology supervision and interpretation.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
A Chicago podiatrist, Shanin Moshiri, DPM, has been convicted of accepting $2,000 in monthly kickbacks from now-shuttered Sacred Heart Hospital in Chicago in exchange for referrals, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
Insurance premiums have become a new battleground in the fight against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with opponents pointing to surging premiums as a signal the Obama administration's signature healthcare reform is failing, and supporters defending that the…
Sumter, S.C.-based Tuomey Healthcare System must pay the $237 million judgment previously entered against it in a False Claims Act case after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the district court's ruling Thursday.
Seventy-one unattended cardboard boxes, sitting unassumingly just 20 feet from a public road, resulted in a HIPAA Privacy rule settlement — including $800,000 in fines — for Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health System. The boxes, which contained the medical records…
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From an Indiana health system settling false claims allegations for $20.2 million to the governor of Florida dropping his lawsuit against the federal government, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements.
University Medical Center of El Paso (Texas) and El Paso Children's Hospital have failed to resolve their conflict over outstanding debt through mediation, and now their fight is headed to court, according to an El Paso Times report.
Community Health Network, a nonprofit system based in Indianapolis, has agreed to pay $20.3 million to resolve allegations it submitted false claims to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, according to the Department of Justice.
Walnut Creek, Calif.-based John Muir Health has agreed to pay the federal government $550,000 to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act, according to the Department of Justice.
In early June, HHS' Office of the Inspector General issued a fraud alert addressing physician compensation arrangements. Although the alert merely underscored current law, physicians should take notice of the government's warning.