Medicare Advantage plans have very high payment error rates, making them ripe for the proposed RAC program that will patrol Medicare Parts C and D, according to a report by John Paul Spencer in the RAConteur.
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Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, chastised CMS for postponing implementation of a recovery audit contractor program from Medicaid, according to a report by the Hill.
The Food and Drug Administration is defending its actions regarding a sterile lubricating jelly that was recalled due to potential sterilization problems. The agency was criticized for failing to take the appropriate steps to contain the public health hazard, according…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new report indicating that rates of central line-associated blood stream infections among patients hospitalized in ICUs have decreased 58 percent.
After CMS completed a Nov. 2010 inspection at University Hospital in Columbia, Mo., the hospital publicly posted CMS' findings on the hospital's noncompliance to infection control and housekeeping standards, according to a Columbia Tribune news report.
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Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, has announced it has released two new toolkits geared toward helping healthcare facilities to build programs addressing patient falls and bedbugs.
James W. Marshall, MD, operator of walk-in clinic Immediate Medical Care in Monroe, Conn., has pleaded guilty to participating in a four-year conspiracy in which he admitted to illegally writing prescriptions for patients he never met, examined or consulted, according…
After pleading guilty to a misdemeanor violation of illegally promoting Zonegran, an epilepsy drug, Elan Pharmaceutics will pay $97 million in criminal fines, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Elan violated the Food Drug and…
A whistleblower lawsuit accusing Johnson & Johnson of defrauding government healthcare programs by improperly reporting drug-pricing information has recently been unsealed, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Former J&J employee Scott Bartz originally filed the suit in 2005 in…
Researchers found that emergency department patients with an adverse drug event result in higher utilization of healthcare services and healthcare costs than other ED patients, according to an American College of Emergency Physicians news release.