WASHINGTON – Earlier this year, UnitedHealthcare acknowledged it is under federal investigation for allegedly defrauding Medicare Advantage through multiple billions of dollars in alleged illegal upcoding, which makes their patients look sicker than they are to get higher payments from the Medicare program.
(The Center Square) – Private equity ownership of hospitals across the United States leads to declining patient care and drained community resources, a new report warns.
(The Center Square) – The group that accredits graduate level medical training programs across the U.S. has closed its diversity, equity and inclusion office and ended its DEI mandates.
(The Center Square) – The federal government will spend more than $1.3 trillion over the next decade on Medicare Advantage that won’t go toward patient care, a new report says.
(The Center Square) – Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling on medical education organizations to teach doctors more about nutrition during training.
(The Center Square) – A new report raises concerns about taxpayer waste in federal healthcare programs, as studies show billions of dollars in subsidies and benefits may not be reaching patients, and seniors face the steepest Medicare premium hikes in nearly a decade.
(The Center Square) – New findings published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons contradict the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, claim that surgery times have gotten shorter.