Maryland news and information

President Barack Obama used his weekend radio address to push for including an assault weapons ban in gun legislation now before Congress.
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A study that looked at scope-of-practice laws in six states concluded that the laws don't restrict the breadth of primary-care services that nurse practitioners offer patients, but the laws still affect payer policies which then curtail how and where NPs can practice.
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The Maryland State Medical Society is setting up a new resource to help keep private practice physicians in their offices. The Center for the Private Practice of Medicine aims to be a tool for independent physicians to get help with office management, health information technology, billing and...
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The suburban Maryland hospital formerly known as St. Joseph Medical Center, which already has a corporate integrity agreement with the government, agreed to pay nearly $5 million to settle new allegations involving short inpatient stays.
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LifeBridge Health, a three-hospital not-for-profit provider based in Baltimore, has named Tressa Springmann as CIO.
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Dr. Gene Green was named president of Bethesda, Md.'s Suburban Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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States expanding their Medicaid programs must broaden Medicaid eligibility to the full extent laid out in the reform law in order to get full federal matching funds to help pay for the new coverage.
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Drugmaker Healthpoint has agreed to pay up to $48 million to settle allegations it sold Medicare a drug that was never approved by the FDA and which was ineligible for reimbursement.
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The University of Maryland Medical System has completed its acquisition of Towson, Md.'s St. Joseph Medical Center from Catholic Health Initiatives, according to a news release.
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Some states would see savings while others would experience cost increases as a result of the health reform law's provision to expand Medicaid, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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