Hospital margins have steadily improved in recent months as patient volumes rebounded but inflation and high labor costs continue to eat into hospital and health systems’ bottom lines.
Ringgold, Ga.-based “alternative medicine” physician Charles Adams, MD, has been found liable for submitting $1.1 million worth of false diagnoses to Medicare for chelation therapy reimbursements, the Justice Department said June 16.
Members of the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, are set to strike June 27 at three Ascension hospitals in Kansas and Texas.
Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare expanded its services in Maryland with the opening of ChristianaCare Cardiology at Elkton, according to a June 12 news release.
MedPAC again advised CMS to move toward site-neutral pay for outpatient procedures to prevent consolidation and directing services to the highest pay setting in a June 15 report to Congress.