The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the voluntary States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development Model in which participating hospitals would receive a fixed payment amount in advance of a prospectively set budget per year.

Quality issues are still the number one reason for drug shortages, and in an effort to address this, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is debuting a quality management maturity (QMM) program intended to incentivize drugmakers to invest in quality measures.

Healthcare is a growing sector of the economy including the export of pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and devices, says Filipe Santos Costa, chairman and CEO of AICEP.

Lompoc Valley Medical Center (LVMC), a California healthcare system that operates multiple providers including a hospital and several clinics, has agreed to pay $5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and the California False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. The alleged false claims […]