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Daniel Levinson, inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, testified before the Senate Special Committee on Aging about fraud, error, waste and abuse in state and federal health programs.
CMS' announced proposed fiscal 2010 payment rates that, if adopted, would result in a net one-half percent average cut to 3,5000 acute care hospitals and 400 long-term care hospitals, beginning Oct. 1, 2009, was not viewed fondly by the American…
In a three-page letter delivered to Pres. Obama, 25 national healthcare, civil rights and legal organizations urged the president to address growing health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.
Synthes, maker of the ProDisc artificial spinal disk, has settled an inquiry by the New Jersey attorney general, which accused the device maker of failing to disclose financial conflicts of interest for doctors researching its products, according to a report…
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order to cut $304 million from the state's general fund budget, which included a 4 percent reduction in Medicaid reimbursement for healthcare providers, according to a report in Crain's Detroit Business.
A Massachusetts state commission plans to recommend that healthcare insurers reimburse physicians and hospitals with a set payment that is intended to cover the care of each patient for the entire year, according to a report by the Boston Globe.
The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of $50 million in Recovery Act funds to hospitals and surgery centers to help fight healthcare associated infections (HAIs) and improve patient safety at a speech before…
Senators John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.V.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) introduced The National Health Care Quality Act, which calls for the creation of a new healthcare quality improvement office within the Executive Branch, according to…
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the availability of Medtronic's Attain Ability left-heart lead for use with cardiac resynchronization therapy devices for heart failure patients, according to a Medtronic news release.