A bill to tighten rules regarding closed meetings of hospital executives has drawn sharp criticism from public hospitals across Tennessee.
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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.
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.
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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.
Nonprofit San Francisco-based Blue Shield of California, the state's third-largest health insurer, faces new pressure to lower its rates for members, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
A judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island has ruled that Providence-based Women & Infants Hospital cannot prevent New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU from asking its members to protest layoffs by declining extra shifts and…
Mountlake Terrace, Wash.-based Premera Blue Cross faces up to five class-action lawsuits associated with its recently reported data breach, according to a Seattle Times report.