Despite the U.S. substantially outspending peer high-income nations with almost 18 percent of GDP dedicated to health care, on any number of statistical measurements from life expectancy to birth rates to chronic disease, the...more
Last week, bipartisan legislation was introduced in the House and Senate to make significant reforms to the Stark Law, which bars a physician from referring patients to an entity with which the physician has a financial...more
With almost 18 percent of U.S. GDP spent on health care, experts see consolidation as fundamental to reducing costs—by integrating care coordination and delivery, and by increasing scale to drive efficiencies, including with...more
Since January 2009, the DOJ has recovered more than $13.4 billion through False Claims Act cases involving fraud against federal health care programs, and last month, Halifax Hospital Medical Center and Halifax Staffing, Inc....more
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With the Affordable Care Act and market forces driving consolidation and creative transactions across the health care industry, health care...more