HHS' Office of the Inspector General has released the results from its onsite review of Utah's Medicaid Control Unit that revealed the unit was not meeting performance standards.
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U.S Magistrate Judge Sonja F. Bivens has recommended one of the six claims against Mobile, Ala.-based Diagnostic Physicians Group be thrown out because the government had not presented sufficient evidence to support the claim, according to a Law360 report.
An Alaska bill making physician apologies and expressions of compassion toward patients regarding the healthcare provider's actions inadmissible in medical malpractice cases has been passed by the Alaska legislature, according to an Anchorage Daily News report.
The release of data showing the dollar amount physicians received in Medicare Part B payments in 2012 has revealed some physicians continued receiving Medicare payments after being banned from state Medicaid programs for committing fraud, according to a ProPublica report.
The Coalition for ICD-10, a group of 14 prominent industry stakeholders and organizations, has written a letter to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, pressing CMS to set a new ICD-10 transition date quickly to ease the effects of the delay.
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Significant revisions to the health insurance questions included in the Census Bureau's annual survey will make it hard to assess the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, census officials have told The New York Times.
Gov. Deval Patrick's (D) ban on the sale of the painkiller Zohydro ER in Massachusetts has been struck down by a federal judge.
The following is a list of settlements of cases filed by employee whistle-blowers under the False Claims Act reported in the last 30 days, beginning with the most recent.
All Children's Hospital, Pediatric Physician Services and All Children's Health System, three St. Petersburg, Fla.-based organizations, have settled a whistle-blower lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act for $7 million.
A California appeals panel has held it is not an invasion of patient privacy for the Medical Board of California to access patient records as part of a physician investigation.