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Urban Outfitters has pulled its “Prescription Line” of glasses, mugs, coasters, drink holders and other products.
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Create a single, uniform deductible for services provided under Medicare Parts A and B. That’s one of several Medicare reform ideas endorsed by Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Medical malpractice lawyers in New Hampshire are jumping on headlines that for the first time in state history, a jury has ignored a unanimous decision of a medical malpractice panel and awarded $1.5 million to a patient’s family.
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The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) released three advisory opinions last week, a respectable output considering the last advisory opinion dropped in March.
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A home health care worker in California’s Sonoma County -- and presumably thousands of others across the state -- can sue her county government for unpaid wages from a disabled client, according to a recent ruling by the California Supreme Court.
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If your patient is grumpy in the morning, should you consider referring him for psychiatric help?
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Physicians, hospitals and other health care providers have until July 8 to comment on revisions to a government proposal to collect information from patients, family members and others on medical errors.
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Just as The Joint Commission and hospitals are encouraging patients to ask their doctors and nurses whether they’ve washed their hands, the next step may be to ask, “Is that endoscope really clean?”
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Medicare needs to change accountable care organization (ACO) rules set up to prevent ACOs from avoiding the sickest patients to allow the groups to better manage patients with chronic illnesses, says Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
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Hospices soon will have a new way to compare their billing patterns to peers in their region and nationwide: a comparative billing report (CBR).
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