Missouri has begun accepting applications from people hoping to work as “assistant physicians” under a 2014 law intended to address a shortage of doctors. The Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts spent about two-and-a-half years developing the rules ...
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Shuttered Iowa nursing home agrees to $100K settlement with feds
Operators of a northwest Iowa nursing home that authorities ordered to close have agreed to pay $100,000 to settle allegations that they provided worthless care. Federal prosecutors said in a January news release that The Abbey of Le Mars Inc. ...
Read More »Kansas Health System seeks exemption from concealed carry
The Kansas Health System is seeking an exemption from a state law that that would allow adults to carry concealed handguns in its medical school and attached hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. Officials from the health system testified in January before ...
Read More »New York creates loan fund for local health care providers
New York state is setting aside nearly $20 million to assist local health care providers looking to expand or upgrade their facilities, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in January. The new Community Health Care Revolving Fund is intended to help community ...
Read More »Connecticut AG sues doctor, alleging prescription scam
Connecticut’s attorney general is suing a Stamford doctor and her husband, alleging they took part in a scam to sell medically unnecessary custom-made prescription drug creams. The lawsuit alleges that UConn employee Kwasi Gyambibi, of Stamford and his wife, Dr. ...
Read More »Indiana hospitals’ outpatient procedure data posted online
Health officials have begun providing quality and price data online for Indiana’s 50 most frequently performed outpatient procedures. The information is included on MyCareINsight.org, which the Indiana Hospital Association launched in 2015, The Journal Gazette reported. The site already included ...
Read More »Commentary: Reasonable compensation paid to C corp doctors
It is a basic principle of federal tax law that, while a taxpayer is free to organize his affairs as he chooses, once having done so, he must accept the tax consequences of his choice, whether contemplated or not. A ...
Read More »Montgomery Co. jury awards $1M million in med-mal case
A Montgomery County jury has awarded $1 million in damages to a Potomac man who lost vision in one eye after surgery to repair a detached retina. Gustavo Crosetto and his wife were each awarded $500,000 in non-economic damages from ...
Read More »Preserving fertility when it is threatened by life-saving medicine
Angela Thomas thought her breast cancer diagnosis and the double mastectomy that followed were the most traumatic things she would ever experience. Then, when the 32-year-old actress sought fertility treatment so she could have a baby after the cancer care ...
Read More »Commentary: Trump had one good idea. Then he ditched it.
It wasn’t all that long ago – though it seems that way, admittedly, with the never-ending flood of Trumpian news – that I was prepared to acknowledge that President Donald Trump actually has a few good ideas. Or at least ...
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