Roughly 42,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield customers in North Carolina have received letters with incorrect rates, according The Charlotte Observer.
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CMS has granted a request by Lake Pointe Medical Center in Rowlett, Texas, for an exception to Stark Law, allowing the physician-owned hospital to expand its facility capacity, according to a Bloomberg report
At the request of the Healthcare Association of New York State, two state senators signed and sent a letter to CMS to better consider the impact reform policies have on rural healthcare providers.
King v. Burwell, a case challenging the legality of subsidies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will not be heard by the United States Supreme Court today.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is pursing three overlapping insider-trading investigations involving potential leaks of information by CMS, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
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The following is a roundup of recently reported healthcare industry lawsuits, lawsuit updates and settlements, beginning with the most recent.
San Francisco-based Dignity Health has agreed to pay $37 million to settle allegations 13 of its hospitals knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare and TRICARE, according to the Department of Justice.
The cost of medical malpractice remains stable for healthcare providers nationwide, according to an annual report from Aon and the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management. The 2014 Aon/ASHRM Hospital and Physician Professional Liability Benchmark report was released Wednesday, according…
On Dec. 1, Medicare patients with ALS could lose access to technological advances that allow them to better communicate, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
Hackensack (N.J.) UMC received more than $1.7 million in overpayments from Medicare from April 1, 2011 to Sept. 30, 2012, according to a recent OIG audit report.