The Tennessee Supreme Court has issued a ruling essentially stating that proceedings performed by, or at the request of, peer review committees, including the quality committee, are confidential, according to Thomas J. Pliura, MD, JD, PC, physician attorney and founder…
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Frost & Sullivan has presented Ansell Healthcare Europe with its "2010 European Surgical Gloves Product Quality Leadership Award" for its Encore range of surgical gloves, according to a Frost & Sullivan news release.
Xinming Fu, MD, an Irvine, Calif.-based physician, was the last of 17 defendants to be sentenced in a $15 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a report by the Mercury News.
LaTanicia McMillan Rogers and Wayne Rogers, both of Moss Point, Miss., have been convicted for their roles in an $18 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a report by the Sun Herald.
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A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation predicts that states will bear only a small part of the financial burden of Medicaid expansion provisions set in place by the healthcare reform law, with the federal government covering most of…
Canonsburg (Pa.) General Hospital is expected to open an outpatient complex that includes a surgery center in Peters, Pa., within the next 18 months, according to the Observer-Reporter.
Patrick D. Osei, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., has pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks in return for referrals for his home healthcare business and then billing Medicaid for the services, according to a report by the Star Tribune.
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to dismiss the state of Virginia's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law to require most Americans to have health insurance by 2014, according to an AHA News Now…
John Theodore Tiano, MD, a cardiology fellow at Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington, W.Va., has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for aiding and abetting Medicare fraud by allowing his Drug Enforcement Administration registration…