Top 8 challenges physicians face

http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/managed-healthcare-executive/news/top-8-challenges-physicians-face?cfcache=true

Physician Challenges

Click to access HC_IssueBrief-PhysicianPressurePoints_TL_0316v2.pdf

 

Supreme Court issues key decision on False Claims Act liability: 9 things to know

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulatory-issues/supreme-court-issues-key-decision-on-false-claims-act-liability-9-things-to-know.html

Supreme Court

Commenting on the Supreme Court’s decision, Jessica L. Ellsworth, partner at Hogan Lovells, says the limitations demonstrated that the high court “fully understood that the False Claims Act remains about fraudulent conduct — not garden variety foot-faults that a regulated party may experience in complying with complex regulatory and statutory obligations.”

Why an obscure Supreme Court case is a big deal for prescription drugs

Why an obscure Supreme Court case is a big deal for prescription drugs

“Consumers and the health system as a whole benefit from a more competitive prescription drug market,” Marilyn Tavenner, president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans, said in a statement. “Protecting monopoly-like pricing schemes threaten[s] consumers’ access to more affordable prescription medications.”

Competition suffers most if UnitedHealth exits Obamacare in 2017, analysis shows

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/competition-suffers-most-if-unitedhealth-exits-obamacare-2017-analysis-shows?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTjJZMU5UQXhNVFJsWWpSaSIsInQiOiJidFZ1RUN4NjdcLzdLK3VFQTVIeGdxSnNWZHZxdThQemM5a2RScVoxTGRtVmFYUjZkeTl0Rms1U1J0SFlDeW52WmUrWjcyODFvaFFXZkl6aUZZSFB2TGZcL3Y4a3ZrUVpwaFNOOUdjanhlNWZZPSJ9

More than 1 million consumers would be left with a single health plan option, analysis shows.

Individual liability, physician compensation among top fraud concerns

http://www.fiercehealthpayer.com/antifraud/story/individual-liability-physician-compensation-among-top-fraud-concerns/2016-03-21?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=lead.Id&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokuKrKde%2FhmjTEU5z14ukkX6a2lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4HRcJjPK%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk

Fraud

Click to access Healthcare_Fraud_2015.pdf

A Blow to Health Care Transparency

https://www.propublica.org/article/a-blow-to-health-care-transparency?

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states cannot require many large employers to submit health care claims to a massive database. Here’s why that matters.

What Justice Scalia’s death could mean for healthcare: 7 things to know

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/what-justice-scalia-s-death-could-mean-for-healthcare-7-things-to-know.html

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Justice Scalia’s death leaves healthcare cases in limbo

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160213/NEWS/302139937?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160213-NEWS-302139937&utm_campaign=mh-alert

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