Friday, 8 April 2016

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Jury sides with Abbott in $1 billion fraud case
1:23:58 AM
A Texas jury sided with Abbott Laboratories in a decadelong Medicare fraud case Thursday that could have cost the company as much as $1 billion.


Security flaws found in three state health insurance websites
1:01:00 AM
Federal investigators found significant cybersecurity weaknesses in the health insurance websites of California, Kentucky and Vermont that could enable hackers to get their hands on sensitive personal information about hundreds of thousands of...


Tenet falls out of S&P 500
Thursday, April 07, 2016 7:15 PM
Poor financials, a deteriorating stock price and investor unease over a difficult nine-month stretch have pushed hospital chain Tenet Healthcare Corp. out of the Standard & Poor's 500, a blue-chip stock index.


CHS' rough 2015 yields no raise, reduced stock awards for Wayne Smith
Thursday, April 07, 2016 6:46 PM
Community Health Systems CEO Wayne Smith received no raise in base salary for 2016 after the hospital chain missed most earnings and stock price targets in 2015, the company said in a regulatory filing Thursday.


MedPAC outlines post-acute pay overhaul, backs Part D changes
Thursday, April 07, 2016 5:30 PM
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has completed work on a road map for overhauling how the program pays for post-acute care. The advisory panel voted to back a variety of changes to the Part D prescription drug program that could save as much...


Final Medicare Advantage rate policies a mixed bag for insurers
Thursday, April 07, 2016 3:00 PM
Did the Obama administration indulge health insurance companies with friendly changes to Medicare Advantage rate policies for 2017? Or did CMS officials stick to their guns on proposals the industry aggressively lobbied to kill? Experts say it was a...


Wireless pacemaker from Medtronic is first to win OK from FDA
Thursday, April 07, 2016 11:30 AM
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first pacemaker to do away with electrical wires that have long been a shortcoming of internal heart devices.


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