PÜTTLINGEN, Germany — Almost every day, Dr. Eckart Rolshoven sees the long shadow of coal mining in his clinic near the big brownstone church that dominates this small town in Germany's Saarland.
Providers are increasingly likely to help patients navigate their advance directives and other pieces of the advance care planning (ACP) set of services, and reimbursement is climbing accordingly.
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) today. Strengthening the partnership between the two agencies will enable both to better protect health care consumers and workers from collusion, ensure compliance with laws enforced by OIG and the Antitrust Division, and promote competitive health care markets.
Arizonans overwhelmingly approved ballot Proposition 209, which reduces the maximum interest rate on medical debt, but a judge has halted the measure from taking full effect, at least for now.