A former Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI) salesman has filed a lawsuit alleging the medical device maker participated in illegal marketing practices.

Next year, hospitals will receive slight reductions in outpatient hospital stay payments when treating Medicare patients, according to a proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released on July 1.

Cardiologists and others treating Medicare patients will receive around the same amount of payments in 2016, according to the proposed Medicare Physician fee schedule released on July 8. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will release the final rule by Nov. 1.

For 2016, health insurance companies are seeking rate increases of 20 percent to 40 percent, the New York Times reports. State insurance regulators are currently reviewing the requests.

Biomarker testing may allay concerns yet provide little clinical benefit. Eliminating unneeded tests can save big bucks, one hospital has shown.

More than 60 percent of people responding to a survey approved of the Supreme Court’s June 25 ruling in the King v. Burwell case while nearly one-third disapproved of the decision. The court ruled that the federal government and states could continue offering subsidies to purchase coverage on health insurance exchanges that were created as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

In 2014, doctors and research hospitals collected $6.5 billion from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, Reuters reports. The figures were revealed in a report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that listed information on payments that 1,444 companies made to 607,000 physicians and more than 1,100 teaching hospitals.

The Supreme Court ruled on June 25 that people purchasing health insurance on the federal exchange can receive subsidies to help them afford the coverage. Still, Congressional and state opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act plan on dismantling the law piece by piece, the Wall Street Journal reports.