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Six months after the federal government settled allegations of kickback payments with five device manufacturers, its long-running investigation into the orthopedics industry is now focusing on physicians, the New York Times reported March 24.

CIT Group, the New York consumer- and commercial-finance company, is pursuing funding from an overseas bank to support its lending business, according to the March 24 Wall Street Journal.

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Heartland Spine & Specialty Hospital has reached a settlement with a group of insurers that were the defendant's in the Overland Park, Kan., physician-owned hospital's landmark antitrust suit (Heartland Surgical Specialty Hosp. LLC v. Midwest Division Inc., No. 05-2164). No…

A new Web site debuted this week that, for the first time, compiles outcome and quality data from a variety of sources for all Pennsylvania?s acute-care hospitals in a single location accessible by the general public.

The Afinity Collamer Aspheric foldable intraocular lens (Model CQ2015A) has been designated as a New Technology Intraocular Lens (NTIOL) by CMS, Staar Surgical announced. The approval for NTIOL reimbursement status means that Medicare will reimburse an additional $50 per Collamer…

The federal government will pay $666 million to more than 660 hospitals to settle a case brought on by hospitals nationwide seeking Medicare back payments, according to a settlement agreement between CMS and the hospitals.

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina will now cover preventive colonoscopy screenings once every 10 years for all its fully insured members 50 and older, the insurer announced.

A California state appeals court has ruled that Sutter Health and Alta Bates Summit Medical Center were not in violation of the state?s consumer protection laws when they did not disclose the existence of a discount policy. The issue of…

For years hospital errors were corrected and billed as part of a patient’s treatment; in just a few months, Medicare will change that practice, and now, national media are starting to pay attention.