Congress has extended the generous Cobra subsidies for the uninsured four times since they were implemented in February 2009, but Congress failed to pass a fifth extension before the last extension ran out on June 1, according to a report…
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The Independent Payment Advisory Board created by the health reform law is a promising way to preserve the Medicare program and halt skyrocketing medical inflation, but it may not elicit its expected savings and may drive physicians away from Medicare,…
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has issued guidelines addressing ethnicity, gastrointestinal diseases and endoscopic procedures, according to an ASGE news release. The guidelines, developed by the ASGE's Standards of Practice Committee, appear in the June issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal…
Effective May 25, 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will deny all claims for collagen meniscus implant procedures, after the agency concluded that evidence showed the implant does not improve health outcomes, according to a report in MLN…
Houston physician Howard Grant, MD, and Houston residents Clinton Lee and Obisike Nwankwo were convicted by a federal jury for their roles in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme involving durable medical equipment, according to a news release by the…
Metropolitan Medical Services of North Carolina and Spacelabs Healthcare have announced a distributorship that will allow MMS to sell the Spacelabs' BleaseSirius anesthesia delivery system in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and to certain accounts near Asheville, N.C., according to…
Margaret Childs of Las Vegas was sentenced by a judge to five years of probation and ordered to pay $15,300 in restitution after pleading guilty to failure to maintain adequate records, according to a report by the Las Vegas Sun.
A new AMA survey has found that 17 percent of physicians are limiting the number of Medicare patients in their practices, partly due to the on-and-off-again possibility that their Medicare fees would drop by 21.3 percent, according to a release…
States may be forced to slash Medicaid reimbursements yet more next year, after generous federal enhancements are due to end, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
Obama Administration officials are working long hours preparing regulations for the 2,000-page healthcare reform law, according to a report by the Washington Post.