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Hospital overpaid physicians and rewarded them based on their referral of patients to the facility, the Department of Justice said.
CMS is also updating wage index values, which has seen some inpatient psychiatric facilities change status from rural to urban.
The complaint alleged that certain neurosurgeons employed by UPMC submitted claims for assisting with or supervising surgical procedures when they did not.
Health officials believe these are the first cases of local Zika virus transmission by mosquitoes in the continental United States.
The study, published online by the journal Pediatrics, reviewed the medical records and conducted interviews with clinicians and parents of 305 children who were readmitted within 30 days to Boston Children's Hospital between December 2012 and February 2013. It excluded planned readmissions such as those for chemotherapy.
Centene's Medicare Advantage network could not handle the type of Medicare Advantage business required in a potential Humana divestiture, Centene Chairman and CEO Michael F. Neidorff said during an earnings call this week.
As a new report showed the vast majority of U.S. states failing when it comes to healthcare price transparency, one expert has said that for states to get on board they must first take a hard look at the websites they are creating to communicate costs.
The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded $3 million to researchers at Montefiore Medical Group, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center in an effort to curb HIV rates in the Bronx, a borough in New York with one of the highest HIV rates in the country.
Their findings are important because, under the health law, services that the task force assigns an "A" or "B" grade must generally be covered by health plans, including Medicare, without charging consumers anything out of pocket.
The federal government released its first overall hospital quality rating on Wednesday, slapping average or below average scores on many of the nation's best-known hospitals while awarding top scores to many unheralded ones.