http://www.modernhealthcare.com Legislation and Regulation en-us 144 21 http://www.modernhealthcare.com http://www.modernhealthcare.com/graphics/icons/rss.gif Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:59:00 EST The U.S. Justice Department may have signaled it's delivering what providers have long asked for: the stomach to scuttle health plan mergers. Or not. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:59:00 EST The unveiling of a proposed rule that lays the groundwork to authorize organizations to certify electronic health records for a large federal EHR incentive program was greeted with enthusiasm by industry executives. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:59:00 EST Its authority to exist has been established and the members have been chosen, but a key ingredient is missing for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission to start doing business: money. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 05:59:00 EST The Federal Trade Commission reached separate agreements resolving price-fixing allegations with two Colorado-based independent practice associations. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:59:00 EST Christopher Howard killed his wife with an ax in her bed in 2002. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. The family of the murdered woman sought to hold another party responsible for her death: the suburban Detroit hospital that... Mon, 7 Dec 2009 05:59:00 EST With evidence piling up that Medicare pro-viders in some parts of the country are providing excessive care to the federal program's beneficiaries, it appears more likely that Congress is going to take some type of action to try to rein in spending... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:59:00 EST Commercial healthcare laboratories are seeking parity with other healthcare providers under privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:59:00 EST California hospital owners are having trouble meeting the state-mandated deadlines for making their buildings more resistant to damage from earthquakes, saying that the ailing economy has left them unable to fund the improvements. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:59:00 EST The Justice Department trumpeted a recent $2.3 billion criminal plea and civil settlement with Pfizer as its largest healthcare case ever. At its core was the receptiveness of thousands of physicians to the company's overtures of tropical getaways... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:59:00 EST Early this month, Loyola University Health System took its incinerator offline just days before the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule that will require medical-waste processors to make expensive upgrades that further reduce...