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Kenneth Johnson, 49, is one of three found guilty following a 2014 trial and an investigation authorities dubbed "Operation Psyched Out".
Acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Andy Slavitt on Tuesday shocked many in healthcare when he laid out an aggressive timeline to replace the meaningful use program, a electronic health records mandate and incentive program that healthcare providers put millions into.
ASP Global has acquired InHome Medical Solutions, a Jacksonville, Florida-based distributor of wholesale medical products serving physicians and home health/hospice providers, for an undisclosed amount, ASP announced Tuesday.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday announced the 21 health systems that are participating in the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model, some having defected from the controversial Pioneer ACO program.
The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index and Standard & Poor's Health Care Index both posted their worst opening day of trading in years on Monday, despite the added attention the sector got with the start of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was surprisingly not among the list of 21 health systems joining the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday.
For decades, if someone on Medicaid wanted to get treatment for drug or alcohol addiction, they almost always had to rely solely on money from state and local sources. Now the federal government is considering chipping in, too. The agency that governs Medicaid is proposing to cover 15 days of inpatient rehab per month for anyone enrolled in a Medicaid managed care plan, but critics say 15 days isn't long enough.
Investors are gathering in San Francisco this week for the annual J.P. Morgan healthcare conference, the sector's biggest financial event and one where many biotech deals are expected to be announced.
Fifty-five hospitals have filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of Health and Human Services over Medicare's 0.2 percent cut in payment for inpatient stays that went into effect January 1 under the two-midnight rule, according to lawyers at Foley & Lardner in Washington, D.C., who filed the lawsuit on Friday.
The meaningful use program is on the cusp of major changes, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt said late Monday, adding that 2016 would likely see the end of the program altogether.