Breaking Healthcare News May 22, 2012

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Breaking Healthcare News May 22, 2012


Today’s Healthcare Headlines:

• Tenn. Blues, doc practices to bundle paymentsFour Tennessee orthopedic practices have inked an agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee to establish a bundled-payment system for total knee and hip replacements.
  
• Kan. doc, heart center to settle false-claims suit for $1.5 millionA Wichita, Kan., physician and his company have agreed to pay the federal government $1.5 million to settle false-claims allegations, according to a statement from…
  
• Surgery residents often fighting fatigue: studyFatigue among medical residents is “prevalent, pervasive and variable,” and accounts for increased risk of medical error, according to a report in the American Medical…
  
• Humana set to pay $45 million to settle reimbursement feudHumana, Louisville, Ky., expects to pay $45 million in the second quarter to resolve a 2007 lawsuit filed by a number of health systems against its military benefits arm.
  
• With budget battles ahead, White House official … (Continued...)

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