Beth Jones Sanborn
431 hospitals have been recognized by the Women's Choice Award company as the Best In Obstetrics for 2016, the company announced Tuesday in a statement.
A bill sits on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk that would set a new precedent for the state: having nonprofit hospitals paying tax-like "community service contributions" to the towns and cities that host them to help cover the costs of the municipal services they provide, like police and fire department assistance.
In 2015, numbers topped out at 30,973 total transplants, representing a 4.9 percent increase over 2014.
The Justice Department has announced a multi-million dollar settlement with Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, California, that resolves allegations it violated Medicare's prohibition on financial relationships between hospitals and referring physicians. The hospital has agreed to pay $3,278,464.
Poor communications, revenue cycle deficiencies held back point-of-service collections, director Scott Urlich says, and it needed to be fixed.
The momentum of open enrollment continued to wind down, with growth of less than 75,000 consumers in week 10, from January 3 to January 9, 2016.
The nation's largest nursing home rehabilitation therapy provider RehabCare, which is now part of Kindred Healthcare of Louisville, Kentucky, has settled with the government for $125 million over allegations they falsely inflated therapy reimbursement claims to Medicare. Four other skilled nursing home rehab facilities also settled in connection with those claims, bringing the total to a little more than $133 million, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.
Kenneth Johnson, 49, is one of three found guilty following a 2014 trial and an investigation authorities dubbed "Operation Psyched Out".
Brown & Toland participated in Pioneer from it's inception in 2012. But the relationship is no more.
Healthcare Fraud charges have been filed against Dr. John Terry, 65, of Wellsboro, in connection with false prescriptions for Oxycodone authorities say he wrote, said the U.S. Attorney's Office.