title: Will healthcare do time for convictions? Hospital groups seek Medicare relief as industry anticipates impact of latest fraud verdicts.
abstract: Less than a week after two hospital executives were found guilty of Medicare fraud, hospital groups last week launched an advertising blitz aimed at securing more Medicare money. But that could be a hard sell. Its success will hinge on how much the industry's image has been damaged by the recent convictions in Florida, which came only a few months after convictions in a Kansas City kickback case.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D005607:Fraud / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008119:Lobbying; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012954:Societies, Hospital; D014481:United States