December 22, 2021
TARA BANNOW
A physician group’s lawsuit against Envision Healthcare will test the limits of California’s ban on the corporate practice of medicine.
December 22, 2021
TARA BANNOW
A physician group’s lawsuit against Envision Healthcare will test the limits of California’s ban on the corporate practice of medicine.
December 17, 2021
MAYA GOLDMAN
Hospitals serving the highest-need areas and unserved populations will get priority for new Medicare-funded residency slots, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a long-awaited final rule published Friday.
December 17, 2021
TARA BANNOW
UPMC is upping its game in the ongoing saga to recruit nurses by launching what it’s billing as an in-house travel staffing agency.
December 07, 2021
NONA TEPPER
UnitedHealthcare must pay $62.65 in total damages for shortchanging TeamHealth clinicians, a Las Vegas jury decided Tuesday.
November 8, 2021
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
OIG updates the Health Care Fraud Self-Disclosure Protocol, publishes three reports, and posts one enforcement action.
November 04, 2021
Maya Goldman
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will require COVID-19 vaccines for all employees at Medicare and Medicaid-participating healthcare facilities by Jan. 4, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will require all employees at businesses with 100 or more workers to be vaccinated by the same date or get tested for the virus weekly, the agencies announced Thursday morning.
October 26, 2021
Associated Press
A panel of U.S. health advisers on Tuesday endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, moving the U.S. closer to beginning vaccinations in children ages 5 to 11.
October 21, 2021
NONA TEPPER
UnitedHealth Group has committed to reprocessing all of its commercial claims related to COVID-19 vaccine administration, after federal investigators confirmed the nation’s largest insurer paid “millions” of provider bills 40% less than the Medicare rate for inoculating patients.
October 18, 2021
NONA TEPPER
Medicare Advantage is now so big that startups are forming to sell software and services to other startups as a go-to-market strategy.
October 15, 2021
NONA TEPPER
Another Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurer sued GS Labs over its COVID-19 tests on Thursday, alleging the national testing facility forced commercially insured customers to take unnecessary, expensive tests to fleece Premera Blue Cross out of $26 million.