Breaking Healthcare News February 23, 2012

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Breaking Healthcare News February 23, 2012


Today’s Healthcare Headlines:

• Former exec pleads guilty to kickback schemeA former assistant administrator of a Houston hospital pleaded guilty to a kickback scheme in which he paid patient recruiters to send Medicare beneficiaries to the hospital’s partial hospitalization programs,
  
• FTC dismisses Omnicare lawsuitThe Federal Trade Commission dismissed the lawsuit it filed in January to block Omnicare’s attempt to acquire PharMerica Corp., a rival institutional pharmacy company.
  
• Providers assail proposed $2.7 billion in Illinois Medicaid cutsIllinois healthcare providers ripped Gov. Pat Quinn’s plan to cut $2.7 billion from the state’s Medicaid program.
  
• Another delay on meaningful useThe Stage 2 meaningful-use proposed regulations are not expected to be released today as originally anticipated, said Elizabeth Holland, director, HIT Initiatives Group in the Office of E-health Standards and Services at the CMS.
  
• ONC awards $100,000 in open-source contestThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and
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