Legal & Regulatory Issues

A Florida House bill would change how cases involving allegations of death and injury from medical malpractice would be handled.

In a 64-35 vote Monday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that extends the ICD-10 deadline to at least Oct. 1, 2015.

In light of last week's abrupt turn of events and everyone in Congress debating over the sustainable growth rate bill (HR 4302), particularly based on its potential to delay ICD-10 implementation, one question stands out in my mind: Can ICD-10…

A new provision in New York's state budget deal will require providers and insurers to give consumers notice when a medical bill includes charges for care provided by an out-of-network physician, according to The New York Times.

Analogic announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the SonixGPS Nerve Block Needle Kit, according to a Street Insider report.

HealthCare.gov was temporarily unavailable this morning, just hours before the end of the 2014 open enrollment period for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges, according to a report from The Hill.

The House has passed a bill that would delay the implementation of ICD-10 by one year, in addition to shielding physicians from steep pay cuts under Medicare's sustainable growth rate, according to a report from The Hill.

St. Tallulah, La.-based Madison Parish Hospital could face a financial emergency if CMS requires reimbursement of a $2.5 million overpayment that was made as part of a Medicare fraud scheme.

The HHS Office of the Inspector General has released a report indicating a federal data-sharing system meant to prevent healthcare providers banned from one state's Medicaid program from billing another state's program is not working as intended.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against two men challenging their verdicts in a bribery and kickback case involving a north Mississippi hospital.