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Health - April, 2012
222 articles
- Audit Eyes CMS' Handling Of $30B Health E-Records Program
- WellCare's $138M Medicaid Fraud Payout Gets Judge's OK
- Reps Seek To Bar Abortion Coverage In Exchange Plans
- Losing The 'Empty Chair' At Trial
- Judge Blocks Texas' Attempt To Defund Planned Parenthood
- NH Hospitals Ask Feds To Rescue State's Medicaid Program
- Q&A With Hogan Lovells' Stuart Langbein
- Terra Firma Inks $1.3B Deal To Buy UK Health Co.
- The Perils Of Exchanging Wage Information
- Accretive Blasts Minn. AG's Billing Practices Probe
- Texas Nurse Denied Bail In Record $375M Medicare Fraud
- Accretive Faces Shareholder Suit Over Stock Plunge
- US Floats Requirements For Employer Health Plans
- HHS Has Final Say On Medicare Device Coverage: 4th Circ.
- LifePoint Nabs $31M Slice Of $3B Medicare Settlement
- House Passes Bill To Fund Student Loan Rate Freeze Thru ACA
- Insurer Can't Stop Benefits While 11th Circ. Hears Suit
- Health Group Defends Egg Donor Price Rules In Antitrust Feud
- GOP Seeks Dem Backing For Medicare Premium Support Plans
- Q&A With Gibson Dunn's Robert Krakow
- Medical Board Not Liable For Summary Rulings, 9th Circ. Says
- The 'Catch' In IRS Proposed Rules For Health Plan Fees
- Statutory Noncompliance Doesn't Always Violate The FCA
- Rep. Asks Feds to Probe Accretive Over Billing Tactics
- Teaching Hospitals Rail Against CMS' Proposed $170M Cut
- ACA Tempts Employers To Drop Health Plans: GOP Report
- Health Law Challengers Make One More Plea On Tax Issue
- Dialysis Co. Says Prior Deal Bars Some FCA Claims
- McKesson Pays $190M To End Drug Price Inflation Claims
- NJ Mayor Charged With Attempted Extortion
- Celesio Fast-Tracks $344M Brazilian Pharmaceutical Buy
- Q&A With Reed Smith's Scot Hasselman
- Insurers Will Issue $1.3B In Rebates Under ACA, Study Says
- Fresenius Makes $4B Offer For German Hospital Operator
- Operationalizing Law Department Performance Metrics
- Disbarred Atty Admits To Health Care Fraud Scam
- Student Loan Interest Bill Slated For House Vote
- Brinker Dooms FLSA Meal Break Class, ManorCare Says
- Texas Medical Supply Firm Owners Admit Medicare Kickbacks
- Millennium Says Ameritox Libeled It In Press Release
- Vanguard To Get $40M From CMS In $3B Medicare Settlement
- House Panel Chair Grills CMS On Anti-Fraud Contractors
- Miami Schemers Get Prison, $40M Penalty For Medicare Fraud
- Calif. Bill To Protect DNA Privacy Moves Forward
- Imaging Firm Pays $1.5M To Settle FCA Medicare Suit
- Pfizer Off-Label Marketing Suit Pushed Toward Dismissal
- Ship Owners' Suit Says CVS Oversold Drugs To SF Spill Pilot
- Trade Groups Can't Stall $29B Scripts, Medco Merger
- US Lawmakers Skewer Minn. Over $30M Medicaid 'Gift'
- Q&A With Ropes & Gray's Anne Phillips Ogilby
- 6th Circ. Urged To Overrule NLRB On Mini Bargaining Units
- CMS Rejects HHS Call For Off-Label Avastin Endorsement
- Medicare Proposes 2.3% Rate Bump For Hospitals In 2013
- Blue Cross Insurers Face Class Cert. Motions In ERISA Suit
- Texas Dispenser Admits Shipping Drug Blamed For 3 Deaths
- Nelson Mullins Goes West With Nashville Office
- Cigna Snags Mont. State Employee Health Plan Contract
- Medicare's Anti-Fraud Efforts Draw Fire From GOP Senators
- Q&A With Paul Hastings' Jim Owens
- HIPAA Enforcement Comes To Small Providers
- A Bitter Pill: Personal Liability For Health Care Execs
- Kentucky Lawmakers Crack Down On Painkiller Abuse
- Trustees Report Leads To Calls For Medicare Reform
- BVF Partners Pursues Appeal Over Genetics Co. Sale
- Ex-Univ. of Miami Employee Drops Medicaid FCA Suit
- Q&A With Hogan Lovells' Sheree Kanner
- Italian Court Nixes $7M In Antitrust Fines On Toshiba, Others
- Medicare Demo Program Rewards Mediocrity, GAO Finds
- Supreme Court Turns Down Hospital Worker Wage Suit
- Sullivan Aids Veritas In $1.3B Thomson Reuters Data Unit Buy
- Recruiters Got Kickbacks In $45M Medicare Scam, US Says
- PPACA: Illuminating The Dark Side Of Health Care
- EPA Bars Zep Disinfectant From Hospitals Due To TB Worries
- Catalyst Investors Get Short Shrift In $4B SXC Buyout: Suit
- Ameritox Says Rival Charged Medicare For Unnecessary Tests
- Cardinal Health Claims Pharmacies Shirked Deals In $3M Suit
- Sex Shouldn't Erase Hospital VP's Bribery Sentence, US Says
- Blue Cross Says Aetna's $2B Antitrust Damages Bid Is 'Stale'
- Hospitals Denounce Ill. Gov.'s $2.7B Medicaid Savings Plan
- 3rd Circ. Sets New Standard For Fee Recovery From US
- Walgreen To Put Up $8M To End New Customer Payoff Claims
- ArvinMeritor Loses Appeal Of $4.5M Asbestos Ruling
- A Recap Of FCPA Enforcement So Far This Year
- HIPAA Enforcement May Finally Be Getting Tougher
- Consumers Push Judge To Block Express Scripts Deal
- Health Cos. Focus On Compliance Over Security, Report Says
- Dementia On Track To Become Big Legal Malpractice Risk
- NY Medicaid Audit Finds $42M In Improper Payments
- Hospital Says Rival Poaches Patients By Deceiving Them
- McLaren Adds CareSource's Mich. Medicaid HMO Business
- Legal Foreign National Sues Maine For Health Coverage
- Cigna Pattern-Or-Practice Claim Can't Beat Arbitration Pact
- CVS Pays $14M To Bury Calif. Hazardous Waste Claims
- Aetna Sues Surgery Center Over High Fees, Referrals
- Wells Fargo Can't Duck Blue Cross' Securities Lending Suit
- A Summary Of Supreme Court PPACA Arguments
- Patient Recruiter Admits Role In $5.5M Medicare Fraud
- EPA Plays It Safe With Dioxin Assessment
- GOP Bashes Dems For Skirting Tricky Health Budget Issues
- FTC Backs Cardinal Health's Nuclear Pharmacy Sale Plan
- Tobacco Cos. Dispute Cause Of Death As Engle Trial Opens
- $60M Medicare Anti-Fraud Program Sees Limited Results
- Court Backs $35M Asbestos Claim Denial By Bankrupt Insurer
- NY Hospitals Pay $2.3M Over Medicaid Drug Overbilling
- US Expects $42B In Savings From Medicare Competitive Bidding
- Medical Lab Rep Still Shunting Sales To Rival, Suit Says
- Sidley Guides SXC In $4.4B Purchase Of Catalyst
- Docket Diving: Strategic Uses Of Online Docket Info
- House Looks To Save $44B By Retrieving Health Subsidy Excess
- Hospital Groups Rip CMS' Proposed Overpayment Rule
- Heart Surgery Center Inks HIPAA Settlement With HHS
- HHS Rule Doesn't Cede Claim Reviews, 9th Circ. Told
- Hospitals To Pay $1.6M To Settle Nurses' Antitrust Suit
- US Denies Witness Tampering In Hospital Fraud Case
- HHS Calls Out 2 Health Insurers Over Rate Hikes
- FTC: Weeding Through Substantiation Of Health Care Ads
- UnitedHealth, Lexington End Coverage Feud In 1st Circ.
- GAO Report Finds Health Care Antitrust Guidance Lacking
- Some Nursing Homes Not Ready For Emergencies, HHS Finds
- Big Tobacco Cos. Challenge $6.5B Payout Deal With States
- Disabled Can Lose Medicaid When Using Trusts, 8th Circ. Rules
- HHS Asks High Court To Mull Medicare Repayment Deadlines
- Medical Supply Co. Can't Shake FCA, Retaliation Suit
- CMGT Trustee Asks 7th Circ. To Revive Mayer Malpractice Suit
- The Latest FTC Challenge To A Hospital Merger
- Learning From Omeros' FCA Suit
- Aetna Suit Over $49M Lehman Securities Sale Survives
- Public Health Co. Reveals Data Breach Affecting Thousands
- Universal Health Snags 1% Of $3B Medicare Settlement
- Bill To Ease Hospital Mergers Sweeps Through RI Senate
- Nursing Homes Say Omnicare Cheated Them With Faulty Billing
- Fla. Pediatricians Ran Phony Billing Scheme, Suit Says
- AmMed Pays US, Tenn. $18M To Settle Medicare Fraud Suit
- Continental Wants Limits On Asbestos Coverage For Mead
- 9th Circ. Expedites DOMA Review In Same-Sex Benefits Case
- Espadas Fight Use of Credit Card Info In Corruption Case
- Employee Says Fla. Hospital Defrauded Medicare, Medicaid
- HHS Wants Hospital Medicare Payments Tied To Commuter Data
- Ill. Health Systems Ditch Merger Plans After FTC Antitrust Suit
- NY Health Provider Must Face Claims It Shortchanged Workers
- CMS Settles With Hospital Chains Over Low Medicare Payments
- Cuomo Creates Health Benefit Exchange With Federal Cash
- Patient Groups Demand Wider Drug Coverage On Exchanges
- St. Vincent's Seeks Return Of Bills It Paid On Eve Of Ch. 11
- US Calls For J&J Exec's Testimony In FCA Kickbacks Case
- McDermott Adds Greenberg Corporate Atty As Miami Partner
- How To Interpret ACO Rule — CMS Clarification
- KKR Gives Chinese Cord Blood Co. $65M Infusion
- Planned Parenthood Sues To Keep Texas Health Funding
- USAID Contractor Exec Stole $1M In HIV, Health Funds: Feds
- Disabilities Don't Excuse Neonatal Nurse Absences: 9th Circ.
- Blue Cross, United Missed $11M In Fake Health Charges: NY
- Blue Cross Will Face Bulk Of $12M Texas Coverage Suit
- Veteran HUD Atty Jumps To Vorys
- GOP Presses IRS On Plans For $500M Health Reform Funds
- Icahn Again Raises Stake In Troubled WebMD
- 1st Circ. Upholds $1.4M Contract Judgment For Amicas
- HealthSouth Investors Can Reseek $3M From Scrushy Charity
- Minn. Gov. Nixes Bill Curbing Cos.' Asbestos Liability
- $29B Scripts, Medco Deal Will Hurt Pharmacies, Judge Hears
- 11th Circ. Won't Review US Sanctions Ruling In Physician Case
- Medicare, 27 ACOs Launch Shared Savings Program
- DOJ Says $475M Highmark Merger Won't Snuff Competition
- Health Law Will Add $340B To Deficit, Medicare Trustee Says
- 6th Circ. Revives $376M General Medicine, Horizon/CMS Deal
- Tenet To Cough Up $43M For Overbilling Medicare
- Audit Sees Contract Oversight Breakdown At SUNY Downstate
- New VA Restrictions On Drug Co. Detailing Activities
- HHS Plugs 10-Digit Health Plan ID In Streamlining Move
- ABA Prez Slams Obama's Remarks On High Court Health Ruling
- Balch & Bingham Reels In Ala. Public Financing Firm
- Clinics Challenge Calif. Medicaid Outpatient Rate Cuts
- HHS Pushes Back Deadline For Switch To New Coding System
- Utah Medicaid Data Breach May Affect 780K People
- Express Scripts Says Delay Of Merger Suit Is Inexcusable
- Jury Cures Hospital Of Antitrust Suit Over Emergency Surgery
- Insurers To Pay Up To $5.4M To End Cancer Coverage Suit
- 2nd Circ. Says Health Provider Can't Sue On Patients' Behalf
- Calif. Health Plan Exchange Progresses As ACA Ruling Looms
- Calif. Regulator Blasts Aetna's Small Biz Rate Hike
- 5th Circ. Health Law Challengers Indignant Over AG Letter
- McGuireWoods Wants Broke Hospital's Malpractice Suit Tossed
- Akerman Adds Health Care Industry Vet To Fla. Office
- Bradley Arant Hires Another Prosecutor For White Collar Team
- ACA Decision Should Not Delay Employer Prep For 2014
- Lessons From Omnicare Antitrust Litigation
- OSHA To Ramp Up Safety Inspections At Nursing Facilities
- Class Cert. Bid Revived In Chicago Hospital Antitrust Case
- FTC Wins Bid To Temporarily Block Hospital Merger
- Insurer Seeks To Avoid WTC Asbestos Claims
- Blue Cross Says Neb. Health Contract Award Was Tainted
- $2B In Rebates For Insured If ACA Started In 2010: Report
- Former Clients Accuse Andrews Kurth Of Legal Malpractice
- Holder Defends Obama's Comments On High Court To Judge
- Gingrich Health Care Think Tank Heads Into Ch. 7
- Misconduct Claims Don't Doom $2.5M OT Deal, Worker Says
- Predictive Coding — Cost Savings If Investment Is Made
- Dialysis Giant DaVita Accused Of Shutting Out Competitors
- NY AG Charges 4 Over $155M Black Market HIV Drug Scam
- Medical Campaign Presses Docs To Stop Unneeded Testing
- Holder Backs Obama's ACA Remarks Amid 5th Circ. Flap
- OFT Calls For Full Probe Of UK Private Medical Industry
- Prescription Drug Spending Ticked Up To $320B In 2011
- Bryan Cave Adds PE, Health Ace To Transactional Practice
- Challenging The Legality Of Copay Coupons
- Cancer Clinics To Pay $3.8M To Put FCA Claims Into Remission
- Medicare Saves $124M Through Settlement Reporting Rules
- Calif. Health Provider Faces 30K-Patient Suit Over Data Breach
- 3rd Circ. Sends Oxford Health To Class Arbitration With Doctors
- Mo. Lawmakers Advance Birth Control Coverage, Services Bills
- VA Ponders Update To Health Care Acquisition Rule
- Medicare Tones Down Plan To Deny Rx Coverage To Abusers
- Ex-NY Hospital VP's Testimony Spurs $2B FCA Revival Bid
- A Mortgage Alternative For Health Care Facilities
- DOL Eases Proof Terms For Black Lung Benefits Under PPACA
- GOP Lawmakers Press For Better Medicare Fraud Safeguards
- Obama Says High Court Should Show Restraint On Health Law
- US Paid Out $392M In Medicare Reporting Incentives In 2010
- UnitedHealth Can't Ward Off Doctors' Benefit Payment Suit
- 4th Circ. Says $45M Tuomey FCA Ruling Flouts Constitution
- It's Not Just Pill Mills The DEA Is After
- $29B Express Scripts, Medco Tie-Up Wins FTC Approval