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NewsChildren's health bill poses threat to physician-owned facilities
Physician-owned hospitals appear to be the punching bag in a bill moving through congress aiming to provide health insurance coverage to low-income children. Critics of the facilities, in particular Read more...
Readers react: Physician-owned facilities
As readers of FierceHealthcare know, physician-owned facilities are a hot topic, one that tends to provoke steam coming out of the ears of hospital administrators. Recently, I wrote an editorial Read more...
Study: Some healthcare reform bills are better than others
Congress got a little excited at the end of their last session, and introduced almost a dozen bills intended to shrink the number of uninsured patients in the U.S. And while no one bill is likely to Read more...
CMS to review Medicare Advantage sales commissions
Troubled by reports that commissions are skyrocketing, CMS officials said last week that they plan to look into the way agents and brokers are compensated by Medicare insurers. Right now, about 10 Read more...
| Press ReleasesSTARK, HERGER INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO FIGHT MEDICARE FRAUDTuesday, 14 September 2010 12:00 The legislation expands the authority of the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to allow it to ban corporate executives from doing business with Medicare if their Read more >> |
