Utilization Review as the Practice of Medicine: Did you know that Ohio's Attorney General recently opined that physicians making utilization review decisions for third-party payors
More and more doctors are supplementing their income by soliciting their patients to participate in clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.
The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG), the agency charged with enforcing Medicare fraud and abuse prohibitions, has recently released its Work Plan fo
While Congress is wrangling over a federal Patients' Bill of Rights, it should be remembered that Maryland passed its own Patients' Bill of Rights Act in 1999.
1. In September at its final meeting, the Health Resources Planning Commission (HRPC) approved a new open heart surgery program for Sacred Heart Hospital in Western Maryland.
When the Medicare Program adopted the Prospective Payment System (PPS) in the mid-eighties, regulators were concerned that by paying hospitals a fixed amount per diagnosis, hospitals might be
Dually Eligible: Did you know that the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has upheld a lower court decision that validated the District of Columbia's practice of reimbur