Nonprofit Robinson Health System, a single-hospital system based in Ravenna, Ohio, has agreed to pay the federal government $10 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law, according to the Department…
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Twenty-three people, including nine physicians, have been indicted for their involvement in a $7 million healthcare fraud scheme that involved rounding up homeless people in New York City and subjecting them to unnecessary medical testing in exchange for shoes, according…
The Federal Trade Commission has entered into a settlement with Albany, Ga.-based Phoebe Putney Health System and the Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County regarding the system's acquisition of Palmyra Park Hospital in Albany, now known as Phoebe North.
A bill to tighten rules regarding closed meetings of hospital executives has drawn sharp criticism from public hospitals across Tennessee.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Independent Payment Advisory Board, which critics of the health reform law have labeled a "death panel," according to a Reuters report.
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) has signed legislation that requires physicians to inform women that drug-induced abortions can be reversed, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Laura Sacha-Staskiewicz, former vice president of the Metro Health Hospital Foundation and hospital board member, is suing Wyoming, Mich.-based Metro Health CEO Mike Faas for wrongful termination, according to Wood TV.
When the U.S. House voted for a permanent "doc fix" and to repeal the sustainable growth rate formula, they also voted to provide new protections for physicians against medical malpractice lawsuits, according to The New York Times.
Chief executives from nine major companies wrote a letter to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) to ensure that the state's recently-passed Religious Freedom Restoration Act will not encourage discrimination.
Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., was on lockdown early Tuesday morning after a prisoner who was being treated at the hospital stole a gun from a private security guard and escaped, according to a Washington Post report.