Kaiser Health News
JUNE 29, 2022
Congress should crack down on Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors that sometimes deny patients vital medical care while overcharging the government billions of dollars every year, government watchdogs told a House panel Tuesday. CMS is scheduled to release the audits later this year.
Healthcare Law Today
DECEMBER 15, 2022
The case asks whether the government has authority to dismiss an FCA suit after initially declining to proceed with the action, and if so, what standard would apply. Petitioner-Relator Polansky is a doctor and former consultant for Executive Health Resources (EHR), a company that submits claims to Medicare on behalf of health care providers.
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Bill of Health
JANUARY 3, 2023
Although three in four doctors support scrapping state medical boards in favor of a single federal license, such sweeping reform is likely far off. Some scholars have interpreted this to mean that the federal government has the right under the Commerce Clause to regulate all medical licensure. By Timothy Bonis. Marino et al.,
The Health Law Firm
DECEMBER 28, 2012
In light of some recently passed laws around the country, the American College of Physicians (ACP) took a stance against government involvement in the doctor-patient relationship. The ACP released a statement in July of 2012, outlining the role of government regulation in health care.
Kaiser Health News
AUGUST 12, 2022
First, it would give the federal government the ability to negotiate prices of some drugs purchased by Medicare beneficiaries, a tool that has long been opposed by the drug industry. The drug pricing provision, estimated to save the government nearly $100 billion over 10 years, would require the U.S. “It’s historic.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
That core set of services covers consultations with doctors, tests and examinations, along with inpatient hospital care. Americans have relatively less access to a doctor when care is needed, the OECD report revealed. But in the latter five-year period, 2012-2017, life expectancy gains in the U.S. In the U.S.,
Bill of Health
AUGUST 9, 2022
Up to that point, many doctors had warned their patients that exercise could give them heart attacks or make them lose their sex drive. If there was one thing government officials would listen to, it was numbers. It didn’t help that until the mid-1950s, exercise was a contentious topic. Shocking numbers.
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