B. Bennie Perkins of Plymouth, Minn., the owner of a home healthcare company pleaded guilty in federal court to obtaining $74,000 from Medicaid fraudulently by causing submission of reimbursement claims for personal care assistant services that, in truth, were not…
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A study in a recent episode of Endoscopy has shown that outpatient colonoscopy is safe with a low risk of acute complications and that the quality of bowel preparation was related to the risk of complications, according to a report…
The Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services have announced the expansion of Strike Force operations to Brooklyn, N.Y., Tampa, Fla., and Baton Rouge, La., in the fifth, sixth and seventh phases of a targeted criminal, civil and administrative…
A recent report by the National Eye Institute found a 66.4 percent increase in myopia among Americans since the 1970s, according to an American Academy of Ophthalmology news release.
In its 2010 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule, CMS eliminated the use of "consultation" codes (CPT 99241-99245) for new patient consultations by specialty physicians. Starting in 2010, practices must bill for these services using regular evaluation and management codes…
A representative of the U.S. Department of Justice said he department will work with hospitals and other providers to create models of clinical integration that do not violate antitrust laws, according to a report by AHA News Now.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated that he will drop a proposal in the health reform bill to allow people ages 55-64 to buy into the Medicare program, according to a report by the Hill.
Officials from Wichita, Kan.-based Preferred Health Systems and Bethesda, Md.-based Coventry Health Care answered questions from the Kansas Insurance Department and members of the public at a hearing regarding PHS's possible sale to Coventry, according to the Wichita Business Journal.
A study published in a recent issue of Endoscopy showed that gastroenterologists trained in reading computed tomography colonoscopy images had a specificity and sensitivity approaching that of radiologists, according to a report on GastroHep.com.
Saint Louis (Mo.) University Hospital recently launched a new single-incision laparoscopic surgery program, which is an advancement in minimally-invasive surgery and could pave the way for natural orifice surgery, according to an SLU Hospital news release.