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Cardiologists and the Infirmary Health System in Mobile, Ala., are accused of needlessly exposing patients to radiation in a nine-year-running kickback scheme tainting an estimated $522 million in Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare reimbursements since 2004.
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Regarding “Docs fear Sunshine Act data may be misread”: Let's be honest about the Sunshine Act. It was designed expressly to increase the distance between the pharmaceutical industry and physicians by casting into doubt our motive for using a particular medication, especially if we have...
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A growing shortage of health professionals, especially in small-town America, is prompting hospitals and clinics to go to extraordinary lengths to land doctors for their communities. It provides unquestionable job security for incoming doctors willing to be spread thin.
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Facing a potential penalty of up to $237 million, Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, S.C. says it did nothing illegal and is asking a federal judge to throw out a jury verdict that the hospital violated the False Claims Act and the Stark law.
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McKesson Chairman and CEO John Hammergren has set a new record in corporate America: Largest pension around.
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The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a jury verdict awarding $21 million to a woman who was nearly blinded and had much of her skin burned off by a generic drug that did not warn of those risks—warnings that were absent because of rules enforced by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Debate over quality measures among Medicare's first accountable care organizations and federal officials will likely have significance for the 220 (and growing) other accountable care efforts under Medicare, a former CMS administrator says.
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Across the nation, boards at not-for-profit hospitals are often paying bosses much more for boosting volume rather than delivering value.
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Quality and patient satisfaction play a small, yet growing, role in determining physician compensation, according to a survey from the MGMA.
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