Over a four-year period, antibiotics sent thousands of American children and adolescents to the ED for allergic reactions and other adverse effects.

When a young woman with few conventional atherosclerotic risk factors presents to the ED with possible cardiac symptoms, clinicians are urged to consider spontaneous coronary artery dissection, according to a recent American Heart Association scientific statement.

In a new study, researchers from the Department of Veterans Affairs offer insight into which patients are most likely to end up in the ED because of hypoglycemia stemming from prandial insulin use.

Usually, a head CT is not necessary for diagnostic purposes in children with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), according to new guidelines from the CDC. Instead, these recommendations suggest clinicians use validated clinical decision rules to identify children with mTBI at low risk for intracranial injury, as well as those at higher risk for the condition who require a head CT.

If it hasn’t happened already, how your ED rules out myocardial infarction in chest pain patients is likely to change dramatically.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently proposed a change to the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The goal is to move accountable care organizations toward a system in which they share in savings they generate but also are responsible for repaying shared losses.

Medical device manufacturer AngioDynamics Inc. will pay the federal government $12.5 million to resolve allegations that it used misleading statements to promote two of its products, causing healthcare providers to submit false claims to federal healthcare programs.

The Detroit-based William Beaumont Hospital system has agreed to pay the federal government $84.5 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it fostered improper relationships with eight referring physicians, violating the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law.

Prime Healthcare Services Inc. (along with Prime Healthcare Management Inc. and Prime Healthcare Foundation Inc.) will pay the federal government $65 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that 14 of its California hospitals admitted patients who could have been treated as outpatients.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule under which Medicare payments and quality reporting would change for home health agencies.