Sept 25 (Reuters) - Only one federal circuit in the U.S. regards extraneous pronouncements in judicial opinions as binding precedent in subsequent cases. And according to two judges on that circuit, ...

A federal appeals court ruled Aug. 20 against more than a dozen hospitals that filed a lawsuit challenging the amount of Medicare outlier payments they received from 2008-11. The U.S. Court of Appeals ...

While a new Medicaid transparency rule for nursing homes doesn’t go as far as a similar measure dictating how home and personal care providers spend their money, data collected through new reporting ...

The threshold for hospitals to receive Medicare outlier payments will not change until fiscal 2004 under the final outlier rule issued by the CMS. Hospitals will continue until Oct. 1 to qualify for ...