Anne Arundel Medical Center has reached a $3.15 million settlement with the federal government over allegations it submitted false claims to Medicare for services that were not medically necessary. The allegations made under the False Claims Act said claims for ...

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Anne Arundel Medical Center and Doctors Community Health System plan to merge this summer, the systems announced Monday. The plan would bring together the Annapolis-based Anne Arundel Medical Center and the Lanham-based Doctors Community Hospital under a system with a ...

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University of Maryland Capital Region Health has dropped its appeal of a Prince George’s County judge’s decision to allow Anne Arundel County Medical Center to proceed with a new cardiac surgery program, cementing the Annapolis hospital’s ability to move forward ...

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University of Maryland Capital Region Health has appealed a Prince George’s County judge’s decision to allow Anne Arundel County Medical Center to proceed with a new cardiac surgery program. The Maryland Health Care Commission approved the new program’s certificate of need ...

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Anne Arundel Medical Center’s plans to create a cardiac surgery program can proceed, a Prince George’s County Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday. The Maryland Health Care Commission approved the new program’s certificate of need last year, but both Dimensions Health ...

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It happened in front of an Anne Arundel County police station. In front of the station, like at all Anne Arundel police stations, Dr. Barry Meisenberg saw a sign with statistics about heroin overdoses and deaths to date. “I began to ...

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The Maryland Health Care Commission has voted to approve a new 16-bed mental health hospital on Anne Arundel Medical Center’s Riva Road campus in Annapolis. Construction on the $25 million facility is expected to begin this fall, with plans on ...

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The head of CareFirst Thursday fired back at officials of Anne Arundel Medical Center after the hospital announced publicly that it was seeking to end its contract with the insurer over a dispute about reimbursement rates. Chet Burrell, president and chief executive ...

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(UPDATED AT 7 p.m.): Anne Arundel Medical Center will terminate its contract with CareFirst if the insurer does not increase proposed reimbursement rates, the system announced Monday. Termination would make the medical center and its affiliates an out-of-network provider for CareFirst ...

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A group of Maryland hospitals shared $16.5 million as part of a settlement last year to resolve thousands of longstanding Medicare billing disputes, according to data newly released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. MedStar Union Memorial Hospital received ...

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