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Report finds lax oversight of specialty pharmacies
By Associated Press | April 15, 2013
Congressional investigators say pharmacy boards in nearly all 50 states lack the information and expertise to oversee specialty pharmacies like the one tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak last year.
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Regional News/West: Jury orders $500 million payment in lawsuit over Nevada hepatitis outbreak
April 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
LAS VEGAS—A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest health management organization to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak. Two companies—both subsidiaries of UnitedHealth...
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Nev. jury orders HMO to pay $500 million in hepatitis case
By Associated Press | April 10, 2013
A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest HMO on Tuesday to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak.
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Jury: HMO liable for $24M in Vegas hep C outbreak
By Associated Press | April 05, 2013
A Nevada state court jury found the state's largest health management organization liable Thursday for $24 million in compensatory damages to three plaintiffs in a negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak that lawyers called the largest in U.S. history.
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Reno system execs exit in wake of antitrust probe, lawsuit
By Joe Carlson | April 04, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Four executives resigned from the largest healthcare provider in Reno, Nev., after an internal investigation of a physician-practice acquisition that drew a lawsuit and a federal antitrust probe.
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UnitedHealth unit accused of failing to monitor doctor
By Bloomberg | March 28, 2013
A UnitedHealth Group unit put money ahead of people by failing to properly monitor a Las Vegas doctor who gave colonoscopy patients hepatitis C by mishandling the anesthetic Propofol, a lawyer told a state court jury.
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Four partnership exchanges get initial nod
By Rich Daly | March 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Four more states were given tentative approval to operate health insurance exchanges in partnership with the federal government on Thursday.
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Utah's governor still mulling Medicaid expansion
By Associated Press | March 02, 2013
About 100 people strolled into the lobby of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert's office Friday and piled up colorful paper-link chains meant to represent the state's uninsured that would be covered by Medicaid expansion.
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Legislation would let NPs practice independently from doctors in Nevada
By Las Vegas Sun | March 01, 2013
It's possible Nevada families won't see a doctor when they visit a clinic if a bill in the Legislature passes into law. Instead, a nurse practitioner may be running the show. The bill would remove the requirement that nurse practitioners must work under the supervision of a doctor.
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High court quashes hospitals' hopes of recouping underpayments
By Joe Carlson | January 22, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
In a unanimous, decision the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed hospitals' and health systems' hopes of recouping millions in Medicare underpayments made between 1987 and 1994.
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