Regulators
State med board disciplinary action numbers fall again
Once again, the number of disciplinary actions taken against healthcare professionals by state boards of medicine has fallen, according to a new report by the Federation of State Medical Boards. In... Read more...
Los Angeles sues Anthem for individual policy cancellations
The Los Angeles city attorney has sued Anthem Blue Cross for allegedly canceling coverage of thousands of members after they filed large medical claims. In doing so, it's following the lead of the... Read more...
CT Attorney General sues FDA over OxyContin
Following on years of attempts to urge the FDA into action, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has filed a suit in federal court that attempts to force the FDA to issue stronger... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: TN Medicaid to test e-prescribing program; NIH alerts patients of stolen personal information; and much more...
> Tennessee's Medicaid program and one of its Medicaid managed care providers have announced that they plan to kick off an e-prescribing pilot program in 13 of the state's rural counties. Read more...
Patients cut costs with faith-based health plans
Increasingly, consumer premiums are going up, along with deductibles. In an effort to fight this trend, some consumers are enrolling in faith-based alternatives to health insurance, under which... Read more...
BCBS of MI promoting coverage pool for individuals
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has been spending big bucks to promote what it considers to be a perfectly reasonable proposal--to create a health insurance coverage fund for people who have been... Read more...
Health plan industry addressing policy cancellations
Hoping to get some control of a situation that is rapidly deteriorating into a series of regulatory fines, lawsuits and heinously bad PR, the health-insurance industry is mounting an initiative to... Read more...
Senate questions device maker payments to surgeons
Last year, five makers of orthopedic implants paid more than $221 million to surgeon consultants--and some Senate members want to know why. Today, the Senate Special Committee on Aging is holding a... Read more...
L.A. sues Health Net over cancellations
The Los Angeles city attorney has filed suit against Health Net, one of the state of California's largest health insurers, contending it engaged in an illegal, secret campaign to drop patients with... Read more...
HHS OKs MI infection checklists
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections has ruled that hospitals in Michigan can keep using checklists to manage infection risks. The checklists, which... Read more...
