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| Tenet offers $238 million to settle Georgia kickback allegations | | Monday, February 22, 2016 6:15 PM | |
| | Tenet Healthcare Corp. has offered to pay $238 million to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit involving alleged kickbacks for maternity referrals by four of its Georgia hospitals. The Justice Department is also pursuing a criminal investigation of... |
| Obama says nation's doctors key to fixing opioid abuse epidemic | | Monday, February 22, 2016 2:03 PM | |
| | The president said Monday that doctors can make a difference in reducing the rate of prescribing of opioid drugs, which is cited as exacerbating the nation's drug abuse epidemic. His comments came in a question-and-answer event with the National... |
| CMS launches new Medicare provider database | | Monday, February 22, 2016 2:02 PM | |
| | The CMS has unveiled new data sets searchable by the public to better track provider availability and utilization of certain services by Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. |
| Pittsburgh-area hospital joins the price transparency trend | | Monday, February 22, 2016 1:12 PM | |
| | St. Clair Hospital in Mount Lebanon, Pa., Monday unveiled a new tool, built by Experian, that offers cost estimates of deductibles, coinsurance and copays for more than 100 procedures including blood tests and some surgeries. |
| 'Black box' FDA warning urged for opioid and benzodiazepine combo | | Monday, February 22, 2016 11:53 AM | |
| | Public health officials are calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to use its strongest safety warning for the risks of combining pain relievers with anti-anxiety medications, which they say is contributing to the sharp rise in overdose... |
| Obama seeks to add teeth to MLR in managed Medicaid overhaul | | Monday, February 22, 2016 11:48 AM | |
| | The finalized rule that will overhaul managed Medicaid as the country knows it is mere weeks away from being released. Ahead of its unveiling, the Obama administration is turning to Congress to add more enforcement "teeth" to a key policy in the... |
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