The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently affirmed a lower court’s judgment entered in favor of a nursing home in a case under the Relatives Liability statute. Liberty Nursing & Rehabilitation Center filed a filial support action against a former resident’s son for the resident’s unpaid bills after the resident’s discharge in 2008. The parties submitted the…

An agreement between Highmark and UPMC is expected to be announced at 12:30 p.m. today by Gov. Tom Corbett’s office today, sources have told the Post-Gazette.

Details of the agreement were not immediately known and none of the parties involved would comment this morning.

Legislators and others said today that a three-year pact, until…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has published corrections to its Meaningful Use Stage 2 proposed rule in the Federal Register.  “This document corrects technical errors and typographical errors in the proposed rule entitled ‘Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program—Stage 2’ which appeared in the March 7, 2012, Federal Register.” 

The…

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The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) received a report that a physician practice, Phoenix Cardiac Surgery (PCS), was posting clinical and surgical appointments for their patients on an Internet-based calendar that was publicly accessible.  OCR investigated and found that PCS  had implemented few policies and procedures to…

Pacific Radiation Oncology LLC v. Queen’s Medical Center is a “retro” case in which the plaintiff physicians have obtained a temporary restraining order barring Queen’s Medical Center from adopting a closed department policy for its radiology oncology department.

Although this case is just in its early stages, it is interesting to note that federal court…

Martindale-Hubble announced that Tucker Arensberg as a “Top Ranked Law Firm.” This ranking is awarded to law firms with more than 21 attorneys and which at least 1 in 3 of their lawyers earned the AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating, the highest possible rating.  An AV Preeminent certification is a significant accomplishment – a …

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Contact: CMS Office of Public Affairs
202-690-6145

NEW AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE CARE, CONTROL MEDICARE COSTS, OFF TO A STRONG START
OVER 1.1 MILLION BENEFICIARIES NOW SERVED BY ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS

A new program that will help physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers work

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Representatives from the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) and the Utah Department of Technology Services (DTS) announced details of a data breach by hackers involving 24,000 Medicaid claims.  Information which may have been compromised included names, addresses, social security numbers, birth dates, and procedure codes according to the…

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