Atlanta-based Mariner Health Care Inc., subsidiary SavaSeniorCare Administrative Services LLC, and their principals will pay the federal government and several states $14 million to settle kickback allegations, the Justice Department has announced. Federal prosecutors...
The Feb. 15 shooting inside the ED of Scotland Memorial Hospital in Laurinburg, NC, provides an unwelcomed, frightening, and extreme example of the violence that healthcare professionals too often confront.
Insurance commissioners from three states expressed concerns that health insurance reform proposals put forward by Democrats and Republicans would destabilize state markets and create more problems than they're designed to solve.
Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart, FL, has disciplined several employees for taking cell phone pictures of a shark attack victim who later died, and has asked anyone with copies of the photos to destroy them. The disciplinary actions included written warnings,...
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center, in Patchogue, NY, will pay $2.92 million to settle whistleblower Medicare fraud allegations, the Justice Department said. DOJ reported the Long Island hospital fraudulently inflated outlier charges to Medicare in 2002 and 2003...
The U.S. House of Representatives stripped health insurance companies of antitrust exemptions by a 406-19 vote. The Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act removes the health insurance industry's antitrust protections under the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945.
The American College of Emergency Physicians expressed concern over the recent closure of an emergency department in Cincinnati and reports that EDs could soon close in New York and Washington, DC. Angela Gardner, MD, president of ACEP, says the closures are especially...
Despite a stepped-up lobbying effort over the past months, leading physicians' groups appear resigned and exasperated with the idea that Congress will not take permanent action to fix the sustainable growth rate formula before 21% reimbursement cuts for Medicare take...
Eon Labs Inc. will pay the federal government $3.5 million to settle False Claims Act allegations raised in a whistleblower suit relating to drug maker's Nitroglycerin Sustained Release capsules, the Justice Department announced. The FDA ruled in 1999 that Nitroglycerin SR...
