Boris Johnson is pressing ahead with plans to cut the UK’s net carbon emissions to zero by 2050 despite trying to increase North Sea oil and gas production as he faces mounting pressure from critics to ease off on the legally binding target. In a new energy security strategy expected in the coming weeks the…
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Florida’s healthcare agency has immediately suspended Medicaid and long-term care enrollment in a Centene subsidiary and fined the insurer nearly $9.1 million, after a computer glitch led Sunshine State Health Plan to mistakenly deny medical claims for more than 121,100 lower-income adults and children. The $125.9 billion insurer must pay the fine within 30 days,…
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A former Tennessee nurse is guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication, a jury found Friday. She was also found guilty of gross neglect of an impaired adult in a case that has fixed the attention of patient safety advocates and nurses’ organizations around…
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The federal government will intervene in a False Claims Act lawsuit against electronic health records vendor Modernizing Medicine and its co-founders that became public Friday. The lawsuit alleges the company falsely attested to complying with certification requirements for its EHR products, provided illegal kickbacks to doctors and upcoded diagnoses entered into its EHRs. The Justice…
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Covid-19 infections jumped by a million in a week across the UK, nearing their highest level recorded during the pandemic in mid-March, according to the Office for National Statistics. Nearly 4.3mn people were infected with coronavirus in the week ending March 19, up from just below 3.3mn a week earlier. Scotland is in the grip…
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NMC came out of administration on Friday, ending two years of uncertainty after debts racked up in an alleged fraud threatened to destroy the United Arab Emirates’ largest private healthcare group. The scandal at NMC left creditors with large outstanding debts. The company collapsed in 2020 after revealing more than $4bn in previously undisclosed liabilities…
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On March 15, President Joe Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill that included a variety of new initiatives, including aid to Ukraine, infrastructure investment and the renewal of community project funding. That funding includes about $10 billion in congressionally directed spending projects throughout the country. A CPF request I submitted, backed by Rep.…
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The personal foundation of SAP’s chair, Hasso Plattner, played a larger role than previously known in a controversial spinout of the German software giant’s highly profitable financial services industry division. The Hasso Plattner Foundation is the largest single investor in the spinout and provided the majority of the initial cash for the joint venture between…
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SoftBank is finalising loans worth as much as $10bn from banks ahead of a planned blockbuster initial public offering of UK chip designer Arm Holdings. The loans, which will be secured against Arm, were a pre-condition set by SoftBank for banks to participate in the stock offering that is aiming to happen before the end…
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Two prominent Democratic senators have requested a Government Accountability Office study of why COVID vaccination rates remain far lower among Medicaid enrollees than the general population and what barriers are impeding state efforts to increase immunizations among program beneficiaries, low-income people who have been disproportionately affected by the virus. Sens. Robert Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania and…
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