The Justice Department has sued medical device maker NeuroSolutions 100 and its owner and CEO, Michael Bingham, alleging they submitted false Medicare claims by billing a noncovered electro-acupuncture device as a surgically implanted neurostimulator. The civil complaint, filed June 22…
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Tim Egan, president and CEO of Chicago-based Roseland Community Hospital, is candid about the facility’s financial situation. “We’re standing on the ice, and the ice is cracking around our feet,” he told Becker’s in a phone interview. The South Side…
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When the COVID-19 pandemic receded, clinical workers expected three things: sustained recognition for what they had endured, a period of respite and a return to some version of normalcy. Most got none of them. Instead, they returned to waiting rooms…
Christopher O’Connor, CEO of Yale New Haven Health in Connecticut, is stepping down after 14 years with the organization. Pamela Sutton-Wallace, president of Yale New Haven Health, was named acting CEO, effective immediately, according to a June 29 health system…
Cheryl Wathen has shared plans to retire as senior vice president and CFO of Evansville, Ind.-based Deaconess Health System after more than 36 years with the system and 16 years as CFO. Alice Rigdon will succeed Ms. Wathen, effective in…
The FDA has selected seven companies to participate in its PreCheck Pilot Program, an initiative designed to support domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing through earlier regulatory engagement and a more predictable review process. The FDA first unveiled the PreCheck concept in August…
The University of Missouri in Columbia has eliminated its executive vice chancellor for health affairs role and will replace it with a new executive committee, which includes the CEO of MU Health Care. Richard Barohn, MD, is stepping down from…
Jeff Francis, CFO of Omaha-based Nebraska Methodist Health System, has been in CFO roles since 2008. As the healthcare industry ebbs and flows, one of his greatest focuses is what’s happening in the revenue cycle. “The biggest shifts are coming…
When Texas’ new clinical AI disclosure law took effect Jan. 1, two of the state’s largest health systems had quietly reached the same conclusion: Existing consent forms provided a practical path to compliance. Lawmakers in 47 states introduced more than…