A class-action lawsuit against United Healthcare(UHC) has been denied its request for an injunction that would have stopped UHC's using certain practices to determine payment for out-of-network services. The suit, led by the American Medical Association and representing numerous employee…
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Physician Hospitals of America reports that it has "received information that physician hospitals are no longer being used as an offset in the Mental Health Parity bill," says Molly Sandvig, JD, the organization's executive director. "The MHP bill was…
Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) has agreed to pay the federal government $74 million to settle claims that the hospital defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and the military's health insurance program, TRICARE, the U.S. Justice Department and the Eastern District of New…
Increased use of global endometrial ablation (GEA) devices, uterine artery embolization (UAE) devices, hysteroscopes and endometrial resection devices for minimally invasive hysterectomy alternative procedures will drive large growth in the minimally invasive GYN market, according to Global Markets for Hysterectomy…
New legislation introduced by Rep. Pete Stark, chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, would require the government to create standards for an interoperable Health IT system and would provide financial incentives through Medicare to physicians and hospitals…
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From a regulatory and legal perspective, 2008 has been a year marked by increased scrutiny of physician ownership relationships in the healthcare area. In the surgery center area, the closest impacts in the regulatory and legislative area related to physician…
Sandra Bruce, MSHA, has been appointed President and CEO of Resurrection Health Care, Chicago. She succeeds Joseph F. Toomey, who is retiring after 16 years of service to Resurrection. She will begin her new position on Nov. 3.
The father of Tom Pliura, MD, JD, CEO of zChart, was a "very busy old-time general practitioner in Le Roy, Ill." The younger Dr. Pliura was recently going through some family files and found an income statement for his father's…
Here are three ways your ASC can enhance is back-office business functions, from Tom Jacobs, the president and CEO of suburban Chicago-based MedHQ.
MedHQ, which operates a provides professional employer organization (PEO) for small healthcare businesses such as ASCs, recently strengthened its range of employee benefits offered to its client worksite employees under the PEO arrangement by contracting with Guardian Life Insurance Company…