The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the fiscal year (FY) 2027 final rule for the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) ...

A Chicago lab owner pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring with fugitive ex-Loretto Hospital executive Anosh Ahmed in a COVID ...

Mohamed “Siraj” Sirajudeen admitted to paying a former Loretto Hospital executive millions of dollars for COVID-19 specimens that he used as part of a scheme to bill the government for fake ...

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SEATTLE — Washington residents who paid for COVID-19 tests through GS Labs during the pandemic could soon receive a share of nearly $1 million in restitution under a bipartisan multistate settlement ...

Nearly $1 million in restitution is being repaid to Washingtonians following a multistate settlement with a COVID-19 testing lab that overcharged its patients and failed to deliver timely results. An ...

Accurate ICD-10-CM coding in long term care (LTC) is not just a compliance exercise. It directly affects care planning, quality reporting, and reimbursement. Yet many facilities continue to struggle ...

Ensitrelvir, an oral inhibitor of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 3C-like protease, is approved in Japan for the treatment of mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease 2019 ...

For patients getting a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD), routine defibrillation testing could be safely skipped when using a scoring system to evaluate device position and ...

People getting a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) did fine skipping the defibrillation test after all, according to the PRAETORIAN-DFT randomized trial. In people randomized ...

"Cicada" is trending, but not because it's the season for the noisy insects to appear. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization are both monitoring a COVID-19 ...

BA.3.2, a new COVID-19 variant, has been detected in wastewater samples from 25 states in the U.S. The new variant has mutations in the virus that could evade immunity from a previous infection or ...