Susan Morse

Okon Umana admitted to fraudulently billing Medicare for physician office visits, physical therapy and diagnostic tests among other things.

The health system plans to open as many as a dozen urgent care clinics over the next three years.

State officials had requested hospitals receiving payments and health plans reimbursing hospital providers to certify none of the contractual arrangements are above 120 percent of the Medicaid fee schedule, the allowable limit.

Kim Kardashian has removed an Instagram post touting Diclegis after the Food and Drug Administration scolded her for failing to include the risk information about the prescription morning-sickness drug.

CenseoHealth accused of targeting those MAO plan members who were likely to yield the most serious diagnoses, and more likely to generate higher capitation payments.

These awards build on the $101 million awarded to 164 new health center sites in May 2015, bringing the total to 700 sites established with Affordable Care Act funding.

Deficiencies included improper verification of Social Security numbers, citizenship, annual household income and family size.

Successful boards spent more meeting time discussing quality and performing and held more frequent performance reviews with middle management, according to Health Affairs study.

So far wildfires have not forced any hospital evacuations, but they are ready if they have to.

Nearly three years after Hurricane Sandy essentially destroyed the Long Beach Medical Center, parent company South Nassau Communities Hospital is preparing to open a new emergency department near the site of the former medical center.