George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences is integrating the usual clinical medical school studies with the policy issues affecting care and the healthcare system.

Teams of federal officials have been fighting ambulance fraud where one fraudulent ambulance operator would shut down only to have another, sometimes headed by a friend or family member, replace it, reports JEMS.

A new bill in Congress aimed at changing the Food and Drug Administration’s medical device approval process would require physicians and their practices to report defects or issues with devices, while protecting doctors from being sued over those reports.

A proposed rule from HHS would limit short-term individual health plans to three months without a chance to renew in an effort to keep healthier enrollees from leaving the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces and limit the upward trend of exchange premiums.

Legislation changing several Medicare policies most affecting hospitals, including exempting “mid-build” off-campus outpatient facilities from the site neutral payment provisions in last year’s budget, has advanced out of the House.

With billions of dollars being invested by hospitals to implement EMR’s the technology should be running smoothly, but it’s actually the exact opposite. The transition from paper was meant to make healthcare faster and more efficient, but things haven’t improved with data being incomplete and inconsistent.

African-American male physicians earn substantially less than their white counterparts, while male doctors have higher incomes than females, according to a new study published in the BMJ.

To prevent Massachusetts hospitals from losing $115 million in Medicare funding over accounting mistakes at a single small hospital, Partners Healthcare is asking CMS to use corrected data to calculate reimbursements, even though the deadline for corrections has passed.