Just as they’re borrowing billions to pay for college, and automobiles, and credit cards, and houses, Americans are borrowing billions to pay for their share of healthcare costs that their insurance doesn’t cover — $88 billion, according to a 2019 Gallup poll. Adding insult to injury, Americans are subjected to a bewildering blizzard of paperwork from insurers, doctors, and hospitals.
The Spinal Decompression Clinic of Texas (“SDCT”) has agreed to pay $330,898.00 to resolve liability under the False Claims Act for the alleged improper billing of electro-acupuncture device neurostimulators.
Tenet Healthcare Corporation has appointed of J. Roger Davis to be president and chief executive officer of its Conifer Health Solutions subsidiary. Davis will replace Joseph Eazor, who stepped down in August for personal reasons after just six months in the position.
Memorial Health Services, a Fountain Valley-based nonprofit health care organization, has agreed to pay more than $31.5 million to resolve allegations that it overbilled Medicaid for prescription medication purchased and reimbursed under a federal drug pricing program, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.
Boulder County-area hospitals experienced lost revenue as a result of an early March executive order from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis that banned nonemergency medical procedures in the state in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.