A $3.6 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed against a California heart monitoring that allegedly defrauded Medicare, Tricare and health insurance carriers contracted through the federal government. National Cardio Labs LLC was accused of submitting “false healthcare claims for cardiac and blood pressure diagnostic testing between January 1998 and February 2004,” the U.S. attorney’s office said in their suit.

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These folks were apparently using the government contracts to provide reporting on these monitoring devices as a means …

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Nurses Week is celebrated each year from May 6th til May 12th, which is the birthday date of Florence Nightingale.
We all know that nursing today is nothing like it was 100 years ago, right?  Just for fun, there is a link to a graduating class from 1910 .  The truth is, I did start this post thinking about how incredibly different the profession is compared to 100 years ago.  Of course, it has been a little while since I took “History of Nursing 101”.  Plus, I had a …

Sen. Pat Roberts (R.-Kan.) sponsored an amendment to the health-care reconciliation bill that would have repealed the new tax on medical devices included in the health care law signed by President Obama.
(CNSNews.com) – The Senate defeated three separate amendments offered to the health-care reconciliation bill on Wednesday night that would have abolished or limited the impact of a new tax on medical devices—including prosthetics, such as artificial limbs—that was enacted in the new health-care law President Barack Obama signed.
Sen. Pat Roberts (R.-Kan.),“People with disabilities, diabetics, amputees, people with cancer, just to …

Pharmacists have a key role to play in healthcare, but it has little to do with dispensing drugs. Instead, pharmacists will become key players on patient-centered medical care teams. “Physicians are not good at medication management. Pharmacists are,” said Roger Merrill, MD, chief medical officer of Perdue Inc. “Pharmacists are good at drug interaction. Pharmacists are a trusted source of healthcare advice. And pharmacists provide value.”
Pharmacists are particularly good at medication counseling, Dr. Merrill told students at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy during …