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Sens. ask GAO to find local best practices

November 26, 2008 — 10:42am ET | By Anne Zieger
Senators Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have asked the Government Accountability Office to find best practices used by states and other countries, as well as individual hospitals,... Read more...

FDA's medical approval process faces GAO scrutiny

October 27, 2008 — 10:47am ET | By Anne Zieger
The Government Accountability Office is scheduled to release a report next month on the FDA's medical device review process, but the facts that we have available to us already suggest that things are... Read more...

Community benefit standards vary widely across non-profit hospitals

October 15, 2008 — 11:58am ET | By Anne Zieger
Non-profit hospitals continue to struggle with the issue of setting standards for providing community benefits, leading to wide variability in how they report such benefits, according to a new report... Read more...

GAO finds gaps in equpment-supplier oversight

August 5, 2008 — 10:15am ET | By Anne Zieger
A series of tests conducted on behalf of the Government Accountability Office has found significant weaknesses in CMS's medical-equipment supplier screening process. In a new report, the agency... Read more...

GAO: Providers owe $2B in taxes, still get Medicare dollars

June 20, 2008 — 12:51pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Healthcare providers owe the government more than $2 billion in back taxes, but those that owe are still allowed to collect Medicare payments, according to research by the Government Accountability... Read more...

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