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Los Angeles hospital required to reduce ED wait times
Official attitudes, pre-H1N1 outbreak: Long hospital emergency department waits are a complex problem that isn't going away anytime soon. Official attitudes post-H1N1 outbreak: Long ED waits are a... Read more...
CA hospital chair pleads guilty to paying for referrals
The former co-owner and chairman of the board of a California hospital has pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals. The man, 74-year-old Robert Borseau, is the fourth... Read more...
CA med labs being sued for fraud
Seven private medical laboratories in California are being sued by the state for allegedly overcharging the Medicaid program upwards of 400 percent for the last 15 years. The fraud has cost... Read more...
Another City of Angels exec pleads guilty to medical fraud
Yet another former executive at City of Angels Medical Center in Los Angeles has pleaded guilty in the case involving homeless people being recruited for unnecessary medical treatment. Dante... Read more...
California providers sue to stop Medicaid cuts
A broad coalition of California providers and Medicaid recipients has filed suit to block a planned 5 percent cut in Medicaid rates scheduled to go into effect March 1. The group, which includes... Read more...
Emergency department doctors sue California
Frustrated by low reimbursement--and the threat of further cuts--a group of emergency department doctors have filed a class-action lawsuit against the state of California. The suit contends that... Read more...
CA hospitals raided on fraud charges
Three hospitals in the Los Angeles area are facing lurid charges that they recruited homeless people on the city's skid row and subjected them to unnecessary tests and procedures in an effort to... Read more...
CA court won't delay 10 percent Medicaid rate cut
A California state court has dashed the hopes of the state's providers, ruling that the state's new 10 percent cut in its Medicaid should move ahead. A group of powerful medical associations,... Read more...
CA Medicaid payments to hospitals stalled
With the state's $2 billion contingency fund now tapped out, hospitals in California are facing an extended wait for Medicaid payments as legislators wrangle over the state budget. Though some... Read more...
CA low-income medical providers denied payments
Payments from Medi-Cal's insurance program for the poor will stop starting today, rattling healthcare facilities across California. Until a budget is approved, Medi-Cal payments for low-income... Read more...
