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Three former executives from Outcome Health, a health technology startup company based in Chicago, have been convicted by a jury in a fraud scheme amounting to approximately $1 billion.

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Buzzworthy developments of the past few days. 

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“The Justice Department strongly disagrees with the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA to deny in part our request for a stay pending appeal,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said April 13.

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Welcome to Movers & Shakers, a roundup of the latest executive movement in the healthcare industry, featuring two CEO moves at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital and Central Health.

 

Bonner General Health, based in Sandpoint, Idaho, alerted the public about the upcoming discontinuation of labor and delivery services.

Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) is asking its interventional cardiologist members to take action to prevent further cuts in Medicare payments in 2024 by contacting their Congressmen. There were substantial cuts in Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) payments to physicians in 2023 further cuts each year can only be prevented if Congress changes the laws for how CMS pays physicians.

The group hopes its members can increase congressional support of a new bill introduced in the House. 

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The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.