The House intends to file a lawsuit against President Barack Obama that is expected to be narrowly focused on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the president's decision to defer the PPACA's requirement that employers provide health insurance…
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President of the American Hospital Association Rich Umbdenstock testified at a House hearing on operational best practices from the private healthcare sector and how they could be applied in Veterans Affairs facilities.
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation introduced by Senate Democrats that was aimed at overriding the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that for-profit corporations may refuse to provide their female employees with insurance coverage for contraceptives if the owners have religious objections…
"Here at [redacted] we've decided to wait until next year to do anything more about ICD-10," my friend and former colleague wrote in an email the other day. "The thinking is, why should we keep training people now? They'll forget…
House lawmakers are urging CMS to exempt pathologists in Medicare diagnostic labs from reimbursement penalties for not using electronic health records, as pathologists rarely interact with EHRs.
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Despite the Supreme Court's ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, most female employees — including those who work for corporations with religious objections to providing health insurance coverage for contraceptives — will have access to contraceptives with no out-of-pocket cost,…
The former Deputy Chief of Veterans Claims in the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs, David Clark, has pleaded guilty to extortion in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $1.4 million in veterans benefits, according to the Department…
Illinois regulators have rejected the University of Chicago School of Medicine's proposal to relocate 122 medical-surgical beds, 32 intensive care beds and 15 observation beds from its Bernard Mitchell Hospital to its Center for Care and Discovery, both of…
Legislation will be introduced on July 15 that would require the termination of any Veterans Affairs employee found to have retaliated against any VA whistle-blower.
Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Health has reached a $1 million tentative agreement that would resolve the second part of the lawsuit brought against the healthcare organization under the qui tam, or whistle-blower, provision of the False Claims Act, according to…