Two doctors practicing in Secaucus and Hawthorne, New Jersey recently admitted that they accepted various bribes in exchange for test referrals. The bribery scheme was operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services ...
With so many compliance issues for health care providers to keep track of, it’s not surprising that mistakes are still all too common. These mistakes can lead to some significant ...
It might seem reasonable to think that, with HIPAA now having been around for the last 20 years, issues with HIPAA violations would be on the decline. But in an ...
Although litigation can be an extremely effective means of resolving disputes over various health care issues with insurers and other defendants, it’s not always the answer for every case. There ...
In the past, particularly in the 1990s, health care litigation against insurers came primarily from patients who were unsatisfied with the kind of coverage they were receiving for their treatments ...
Twenty different health care facilities across the state of New Jersey will share approximately $5.5 million in grants through the Affordable Care Act. The money will allow them to bring ...
Around this time last year, people were beginning to sign up in the healthcare.gov marketplace for the first time under the Affordable Care Act. With the one-year anniversary of the ...
There are so many inefficiencies that still continue to plague the health care system at a national and state level, even after all of the reforms that have come into ...
With all of the changes made to the health care system in the United States within the last couple years, health care reimbursement has been a particularly hot topic. Here ...
A 21-member, nonpartisan national committee put together by the Institute of Medicine recently concluded after some independent research that overhauls are necessary in the way the federal health care system ...
In an effort to ease some of the medical profession’s trepidation concerning the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many proponents have pointed out that it is likely to bring a new ...
A number of small medical practices facing increased financial pressure and competition from urgent care clinics and other large providers have taken unconventional steps to increase revenues and get the ...
Most people believe that the complexity and specialized knowledge involved in any given profession makes others in that profession better equipped to regulate their own members than any outside concern. ...
A great deal of focus has been placed on statistics and trends during the six-month open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange policies and Medicaid expansion. During that ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 is ushering in major changes to the health care sector in 2014, when most of its provisions will come into effect. There are ...
