by Keith Kuhn | Jul 3, 2013 | Beneficiary, Government
In a surprise announcement, W.H. administration said Tuesday evening that it was delaying implementation of a key part of its landmark health-reform law; the requirement that employers with more than 50 workers offer insurance coverage by Jan. 1, 2014 or face fines....
by Keith Kuhn | Jul 3, 2013 | Provider
The Illinois Department of Public Health plans to revoke the license of Sacred Heart Hospital, a day after the West Side facility abruptly shut down amid a suspension of Medicare payments. Late Tuesday afternoon, the Sacred Heart was preparing to seek protection from...
by Keith Kuhn | Jul 3, 2013 | Provider
Fifty-five hospitals in 21 states have agreed to pay $34 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that they used more expensive inpatient procedures rather than outpatient spinal surgeries to get bigger payments from Medicare, the U.S. Justice Department...
by Keith Kuhn | Jul 2, 2013 | Payor, Provider
Highmark and UPMC argued on Monday that a federal judge should throw out an antitrust case filed by insurance premium payers because even if they could prove collusion between the insurer and hospital system, the plaintiffs can’t win damages. Royal Mile Co., a...
by Keith Kuhn | Jul 2, 2013 | Government
The Medicare system may never collect more than $543 million in overpayments made in 2010, a federal inspector general’s report released Tuesday shows, because Medicare entered only a summary of each bill in its new system. The new accounting system for the...
