On April 23, 2018, CMS released CMS-1727-R (the Ruling), which announced that it will follow the United States District Court’s decision in Banner Heart Hospital v. Burwell, 201 F. Supp.

CMS has almost cut Banner Baywood off more than once in recent years. Based on CMS data, Banner Baywood is the only short-term hospital in Arizona to receive letters that threaten termination ...

As the health insurance and pharma industries clash over the cost of hepatitis C drugs, a new report finds the high-priced meds will drive up Medicare Part D spending by about $2.9 billion to $5.8 ...

The settlement resolves a whistleblower case brought by a former Banner Health employee who claimed one dozen hospitals in Arizona and Colorado overcharged Medicare for brief, inpatient ...

Banner Boswell and Banner Thunderbird will pay nearly $2.7 million to settle Medicare overbilling claims More than 130 hospitals have paid $105 million in claims of overbilling for spinal ...

Officials said all lines of coverage underperformed, but about 70% of the year-over-year decline was attributable to Banner’s wholly owned Medicare Advantage plan and its commercial insurance ...

which also saw alliance firms headline all marketing material with the CMS banner as of May this year. Lawyers will now pitch the whole alliance to clients as opposed to the services of the ...