Susan Morse

Feds claim Vicki S. House, executive director of Nurses' Registry and Home Health, paid three local physicians who referred patients to Nurses' Registry.

After being halted for several hours Wednesday due to a computer malfunction, trading on the New York Stock Exchange resumed at 3:10 p.m., officials said.

The Government Accountability Office believes Congress should slash the financial incentives the government pays hospitals in the 340B drug program, it said in a new report, over concerns that disproportionate share hospitals are prescribing more than other facilities.

The multimillion dollar fine is more than the hospital's annual revenue and is believed to be the largest ever applied to a community hospital.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Monday said it will not deny claims under the Part B physician fee schedule based on ICD-10 coding errors, a decision supported by bitter ICD-10 opponent the American Medical Association.

The healthcare industry is now getting the scrutiny that financial institutions and other publicly traded companies have experienced, said Phil Bezanson, a partner at Bracewell & Giuliani in Houston.

For the 2014 benefit year, over $7.9 billion in reinsurance payments will be made to 437 issuers nationwide.

The dedicated litigation team will focus on the smaller entities such as individual physicians and executives in civil penalties and exclusion cases.

The move expands Prospect's reach into New England -- it owns and operates 13 hospitals and 40 clinics in California, Texas and Rhode Island.

Hospital gains a 50-bed hospital and 152-bed nursing and rehabilitation center.