After a nurse was confronted by her hospital employer about the theft of narcotics, she admitted ordering excess medicine and diverting it for her own use.
Assignment of Medicare Payments. Did you know that the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has announced that Medicare payments will no longer be made payable to emergency room sta
Recently, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that health care providers are not required to notify family members of a patient's HIV status. In Lemon V.
Implementing changes to the Social Security Act, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health & Human Services (OIG) has issued regulations concerning the provision of adviso
In 1996, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (the Agencies) updated their joint Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in health Care (the Statements).
Maryland's self-referral law, enacted in 1993, generally prohibits health care practitioners from referring patients to entities in which they have an ownership interest, or with which they have a
1. The Health Services Cost Review Commission's (HSCRC) 1997 Annual Disclosure Report revealed that Maryland's cost per hospital admission was about 3% below the U.S. average in FY 1996.
In a pair of decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court held, on June 26, 1997, that terminally ill individuals do not have a constitutionally protected right to a physician's assistance to die.
