The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division recently held a workshop on trends in healthcare payment models and their effects on competition, according to a report published in JD Supra Business Advisor.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in King v. Burwell this morning. The case could decide the fate of a major portion of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act: the subsidies approximately 7 million middle-income people across more than…
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT Competition and healthcare reform demand that new relationships among providers be created to secure the future financial health of many healthcare institutions. It is crucial that all arrangements among…
Charles Denham, MD, the former chair of the Safe Practices Committee of the National Quality Forum, has agreed to pay the federal government $1 million to settle allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by soliciting and accepting kickbacks,…
In response to ABC filming the death of a man in the ER of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for its reality show NY Med, State Assemblyman Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside) has proposed legislation that would make it a felony to film patients receiving…
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The Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) will be holding its annual Healthcare Leadership Advocacy Day on Wednesday, March 4th.
Russell W. Sullivan, currently a senior advisor to McGuireWoods Consulting and former chief of staff to Senator Max Baucus (Mont.-D.), was closely involved in the drafting of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In a special webinar on March…
A woman in Maryland has been sentenced to three years in prison for impersonating a physician assistant and treating and diagnosing 137 infants and children, according to the Department of Justice.
At some point, practically all healthcare providers will find themselves in a reimbursement dispute.
Nina Pham, the 26-year-old nurse who contracted Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas in October 2014, plans to file a lawsuit alleging the hospital violated her privacy and failed to properly train staff to care for patients with…