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IL medical practice reaches antitrust settlement with state
Illinois medical group Carle Clinic Association has cut a deal to settle an antitrust lawsuit alleging that it had conspired with the area's other dominant practice to avoid Medicaid business. In the... Read more...
Case study: TN ED diversion program works with clinics
A hospital in Nashville has become the next in what planners hope will be a network of hospitals diverting non-critical cases to local clinics. Skyline Medical Center has joined Vanderbilt University... Read more...
Study: Poorer patients get delayed heart attack care
People with a low income--including those with Medicaid coverage--often take much longer than more affluent people to get to the hospital when afflicted with a heart attack, new research has... Read more...
Walgreens agrees to $35M drug-switching settlement
Walgreen Co. has agreed to pay $35 million to the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve allegations that it had switched patients to more expensive drugs to boost its Medicaid reimbursement. In the... Read more...
FL gov. signs law reforming CON rules
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) has signed a bill, strongly backed by the state's hospital association, which remakes the state's certificate-of-need process. The bill includes a "loser pays" rule... Read more...
Study: Care at safety net hospitals lagging
Care at safety net hospitals is of significantly lower quality than hospitals that don't serve the poor and underserved, according to a new study appearing in the Journal of the American Medical... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Health IT standards progressing; VCs and researchers teaming up to build biotech firms; and much more...
> It's looking like the health IT industry should make significant progress this year in establishing clinical data standards. Read more...
Study: MDs refer profitable patients to their ASCs
This isn't too surprising, but it's not something policymakers will like, either. A new study of referral patterns in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh metros suggests that physicians who are... Read more...
Illinois AG re-files medical practices suit
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has re-filed an antitrust lawsuit which claims that two medical practices conspired to reject new Medicaid patients. The suit previously had been tossed out by... Read more...
Study: Insured patients get earlier cancer diagnosis
A new study by the American Cancer Society has concluded that uninsured U.S. residents and Medicaid patients are more likely than the privately insured to be diagnosed with late-stage cancer, echoing... Read more...
