Arizona-based Carondelet Health Network has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve allegations that two of its hospitals submitted false claims for inpatient rehabilitation services to Medicare and other federal programs from 2004 to 2011.
A surgeon with an alleged history of bad behavior must pay a nurse $5,000 in compensatory damages and $35,000 for punitive damages after kicking her and leaving a bruise, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled. The court upheld a previous decision that ordered cardiothoracic surgeon Robert T. Fried...
The Court of Appeals of Ohio in the Eighth Appellate District, County of Cuyahoga (the "Court"), affirmed the grant by a lower court of a patient's motion to compel production of an incident report prepared after the patient suffered injuries in a hospital. The Court ruled...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 8
During a brainstorming session at the Massachusetts Association of Medical Staff Service's Annual Education Conference in May, participants were asked how they dealt with the problem of physicians not providing documentation in a timely manner. The following solutions were offered...
Since the creation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs in 1965, the public has provided tens of billions of dollars to fund graduate medical education (GME), the period of residency and fellowship provided to physicians after they receive a medical degree. Although the scale of government...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment to a hospital facing claims of racial discrimination from a physician. The Court ruled that the physician failed to...
