The Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital has paid $3.2 million to Medicare to settle allegations that the hospital improperly billed the program for unnecessary inpatient hospital admissions from April 1998 to April 2006, according to a report in the New Haven…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released three National Coverage Determinations, which state that CMS will not pay for surgical errors.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its proposed payment rate and policy changes for ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments for Jan. 1, 2010, according to a CMS news release.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has several announced proposed changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2010, which are expected to reduce payment rates to physicians by 21.5 percent, according to a CMS news release.
The 12 hospitals and 21 surgery centers in Rhode Island have agreed to a new surgical protocol to prevent wrong-site surgery errors, according to a report in The Providence Journal.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., has agreed to pay $2.75 million to the United States Government to settle allegations that the hospital submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs, according to a news release from the United…
CareFusion Corp., the company that will become public following the planned spinoff of Cardinal Health's clinical and medical products businesses, recently launched its new brand and marked the occasion by providing opportunities for its global employees to volunteer for non-profit…
The Colorado Medicaid Fraud Control Unit recovered more than $5.3 million in settlements and restitution in the fiscal year that ended June 30, the most since 1983, according to a report in the Denver Business Journal.
Roberto Rodriguez, MD, of Miami has been sentenced to 97 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $9 million in restitution for his role in a Medicare fraud scheme involving HIV infusion services, according to a U.S. Department…
McGuire Woods and McGuire Woods Consulting has enhanced both firms' national governmental affairs efforts by attracting two accomplished former governors — former Gov. Jim Hodges of South Carolina and former Gov. Mike Easley of North Carolina — as well as…