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Health - May, 2012

242 articles

• Judge Won't Stay West Penn Antitrust Suit Pending Merger
• High Court Seeks More Info On FTC, Ga. Hospital Merger Fight
• House Rejects Bill Banning Sex-Based Abortions
• Q&A With Epstein's Mark Lutes
• House Panel OKs Repeal Of Health Reform's OTC Restriction
• PPACA In The Court: It's Down To Politics, Not The Law
• 1st Circ. Finds DOMA Unconstitutional
• NJ Dentists Allowed To Sue BCBS, United Over Back Charges
• AHA Updates Debt Collection Rules Amid Accretive Fuss
• Quest Took $26M Through False Claims, Ex-Manager Says
• Blue Cross Mich. Can't Score DOJ Interviews In Antitrust Suit
• Title VII Protects Nursing Moms, Doctors Tell 5th Circ.
• DC Circ. Tells Armey To Take Up Medicare Beef With Insurer
• DLA Piper Guides BofA In Peruvian Hospital Bond Deal
• Trade Group Shakes Suit Over 'Mandatory' Annual Dues
• Ex-FDA Counsel Joins Crowell & Moring
• Bankrupt NJ Hospital Sues To Delay Provider Pullout
• Ohio Hospital System Claims Immunity From Antitrust Attack
• Coburn Asks HHS To Block Usage Of Exhaustive Disease Guide
• Q&A With Ober Kaler's Julie Kass
• Ill. Senate Approves Bill Outlining Tax Benefits For Hospitals
• The Ebb And Flow Of OFCCP Health Care Jurisdiction
• FTC Says NC Dental Bill Would Thwart Competition
• States Get Six Times Longer To Return Medicaid Overpayments
• Judge Won't Force Wash. AG To Alter ACA Challenge
• Project Financing In Iraq: Weighing The Risks
• Physicians Asks CMS To Delay Dual Eligible Savings Plan
• Stalled LA Development Gets Boost From Kaiser Purchase
• Q&A With Covington's Caroline Brown
• An Unconstitutional FCA Provision Lurking In PPACA?
• Dewey & LeBoeuf Files For Bankruptcy
• HealthCor Wins Quick Hearing In Allscripts Proxy Fight Case
• Doctors Groups Seek To School House On Medicare Pay Fix
• Illinois Assembly Approves $1.6B Medicaid Cut
• DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional In Calif. Same-Sex Benefits Suit
• NY Grand Jury Pins Pain Pill Abuse On Drugmakers, Doctors
• Cantor Wants June House Vote On Health Accounts OTC Ban
• Q&A With Drinker Biddle's Doug Swill
• Texas Duo Indicted In $19M Medicare, Medicaid Fraud
• Dental Center Manager Gets Green Light For Sale To Lenders
• CMS Failed To Recoup Medicare Overpayments, Audit Says
• $55M Suit Claims Blue Cross Shorted Texas Hospitals
• Pom Strikes Back With Ad Campaign In FTC Health Claim Row
• Stericycle Must Shed Recently Bought Rival, UK Regulator Says
• Nossaman Snags Real Estate Partner For LA Office
• Judge Refuses To Let Insurer Exit FTC Health Marketing Suit
• Ventas, Kindred Strike Lease Deal Worth At Least $280M
• Solo Insurance Plans Fail To Meet PPACA Standards, Study Says
• FCC Dedicates Spectrum For Wireless Medical Devices
• Q&A With Foley & Lardner's Lawrence Vernaglia
• High Court Asked To Nix FTC Protest To Ga. Hospital Merger
• GOP Rails Against $20M Contract To Promote Health Reform
• VA Budget Is Exempt From Automatic Cuts, GAO Says
• NJ Panel Advances Bill Speeding Class Cert. Appeals
• White House Orders Gov't Agencies To Take Data Mobile
• Physicians Win Bulk Of Malpractice Trials, Study Shows
• IRS Flouts GOP Objections To Premium Tax Credit Rule
• West Penn Fights Buyer's Vow To Drop UPMC Antitrust Suit
• Q&A With Fulbright & Jaworski's Rick Robinson
• Jones Day Reps SAP In $4.3B Deal For Cloud Firm Ariba
• HHS Hit With Suit Over Medicaid Copays For Ariz. Residents
• ADA Doesn't Shield Medical Marijuana Users, 9th Circ. Says
• 9th Circ. Won't Hear DOMA Appeal En Banc In Benefits Case
• Q&A With Reed Smith's Carol Loepere
• Expanding False Claims Liability In Ga.
• Best Practices For Corporate Social Responsibility
• Texas Has Right To Defund Planned Parenthood, 5th Circ. Hears
• Fox Insurance's $3M Award Over Lost CMS Contract Stands
• Heart Clinic Pays $1.5M To Settle Medicare Fraud Case
• Prostate Cancer Test Not Worth Risk, Advisory Panel Says
• Health Insurance Tax Credits Too Paltry For Small Biz: GAO
• Hedge Fund Sues Allscripts To Set Up Proxy Battle
• Judge Clears Way For St. Vincent's Ch. 11 Plan Vote
• J&J Customers To Appeal Benecol False Ad Ruling
• Notre Dame, Others Join Fight Over Birth Control Mandate
• Humana To Pay $45M To Resolve Fight Over Tricare Billing
• Pom Juice Ads Were Misleading, FTC Judge Says
• DaVita Pays $4B For Health Network To Bolster Medicare Rolls
• GAO Shuts Down Cygnus' Gripes Over Canceled HHS Contract
• Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Block Veteran Health Cuts
• Q&A With Fisher & Phillips' Kevin Troutman
• $200M Medicare Schemer Objects To Feds' Sentencing Plan
• IRS Adopts Health Insurance Tax Credit Under ACA
• OSHA Steps Up Efforts To Revamp Whistleblower Program
• Reid Wants Monday Vote To Advance FDA User Fee Bill
• Conyers Targets Health Insurance Antitrust Shield Again
• Mass. Senate OKs Health Reform Bill, Expecting $150B Savings
• Nixon Peabody Nabs Davis Wright's Health Group Vice Chair
• Va. Joins $500M Medicaid Fraud Suit Against Healthpoint
• NY Overbilled Medicaid $701M For Special Needs Patients: OIG
• Sellers Prepare: Health Care Due Diligence
• Texas High Court Upturns Stop-Loss Insurance Classification
• Advocat Sued By Shareholders For Spurning $51M Takeover
• Q&A With Hiscock & Barclay's Melissa Zambri
• GOP To Wage War On ACA Regardless Of High Court Ruling
• Undocumented Medicaid Claims Don't Violate FCA: DC Circ.
• Humana Can't Shake Insurer's $2.2M Medicare Pay Suit
• AMA Says FTC's Dental Board Case Threatens Public Health
• FCC Plans Spectrum Grant For Wireless Patient Monitoring
• Hospital Group Wants HHS Coding System Switch Delayed
• Q&A With Epstein Becker's David Matyas
• Express Scripts To Pay DOJ $2.75M Over Worker Drug Thefts
• Nurse Sentenced In $5M Medicare Home Health Fraud
• Judge Says Brinker Shuts Out Meal Break Timing Class
• EU Adopts List To Weed Out Misleading Health Claims
• HHS Outlines Benchmarks For State Health Exchanges
• Specialty Products' Asbestos Creditors Float Ch. 11 Plan
• Senate Advances Bill On Same-Sex Benefits For Gov't Workers
• Bishops Threaten Suit Over Contraception Coverage Rule
• Q&A With Sills Cummis' Gary Herschman
• Ex-Partner Says Troutman Shafted Him Over $20M MetCap Fee
• Suit Over DLA Piper Fees Will Stay In Bankruptcy Court
• ProMedica Knew Of FTC Merger Probe, Insurer Tells 6th Circ.
• Texas Docs Want HHS To Drop New Coding System
• Accretive Taps Daschle, Frist To Pen Patient-Billing Rules
• Temple Settles With Feds Over Bogus Health Billing Allegations
• King & Spalding Nabs Health Care Duo From Baker Donelson
• UPMC Says West Penn Merger Warrants Stay Of Antitrust Suit
• Chinese Drywall Developer Makes $5M Deal With Homeowners
• UnitedHealth Seeks 3rd Circ. Win Over Coverage Denials
• Q&A With Akin Gump's Stephanie Webster
• Cardinal Agrees To Shipping Ban Over Oxycodone Orders
• 9th Circ. Says 'Knowing' Access Enough For HIPAA Breach
• Blue Cross Hit With Market Allocation Suit In Tenn.
• High Court Won't Hear CUNA Retirees' Health Benefit Appeal
• Detroit Doc Convicted In $7M Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Accretive Rebuts Claims Of Harsh Collection Tactics
• Towers Watson Pays $435M For Leading Medicare Exchange
• Q&A With King & Spalding's Glen Reed
• Ex-Bronx Sen. Espada Found Guilty Of Stealing From Nonprofit
• DeCotiis Seeks Quick Win In NJ County's Malpractice Suit
• Insurers Deny They Owe Costs For Mining Co.'s Asbestos Feuds
• Medicare Doc Fees Not Reviewable By Courts, Judge Says
• Omnicare To Pay $50M To Settle DEA's Rx Misconduct Claims
• HHS Tightens Disclosure Rule Under Health Reform Law
• Hospital Group Pans HUD's Mortgage Insurance Rate Hike
• Cigna To Pay $295M For Senior-Focused AFG Insurance Unit
• Q&A With Arnold & Porter's Kirk Ogrosky
• When HIPAA Is Not Enough: Tougher Texas Privacy Laws
• Document Review Considerations
• Allstate Alleges $30M Insurance Fraud, Demands NY Reform
• NY Court Says Medical Data Protected In Malpractice Suit
• Chem Rx Trustee Blames Bankruptcy On $162M LBO
• IG Spotlights $5.6B In Questionable Medicare Billings
• NJ Gov. Vetoes Health Insurance Exchange Bill
• Panel Pushes For Asbestos Trusts To Publish Claimants' Info
• GOP Probes $3.8B Loan Program For Nonprofit Health Insurers
• Streamlined Hospital Regs To Save $1B Yearly, CMS Says
• Q&A With Nixon Peabody's Michele Masucci
• Where Rubber Hits Road: Examples Of Alternative Fees
• Lap-Band Marketer, Clinics Can't Push Patients Into Arbitration
• Calif. Panel OKs Bill To Undo Personal Injury Ruling
• Medicaid Primary Docs To See $11B Pay Boost Under CMS Rule
• Polsinelli Shughart Nabs Mayer Brown Antitrust, Health Ace
• Bill Aims To Prevent States Defunding Planned Parenthood
• Strapp, Horvitz Duck Malpractice Claims In Firing Row
• Bipartisan Plan For Medicare Payment Overhaul Emerges
• HHS To Inject $75M Into School Health Centers
• Atty Misconduct Claims Can't Sink $2.5M Affinity OT Deal
• Q&A With Choate's Melissa Tearney
• FCA Cases May Be Lurking Within CMS Refund Obligation
• 2 Admit Roles In $13.8M Home Health Care Fraud
• HHS Sees Promise In Telehealth, Managed Care Programs
• FTC's Top Mergers Litigator To Leave Regulator
• Verizon, OnStar Can't Use Consumer Law To Sue Over Robocalls
• Greenberg Lures Quarles Litigator To Phoenix Office
• AMA Joins Chorus Against Medicare E-Records Rule
• NY Fines Insurers $2.7M For Hiding Mental Health Option
• Chicago Mayor Seeks To End Accretive's Row With Minn. AG
• 9th Circ. Tosses Veterans' Claims Of Benefits Delays
• Dems' Student Loan Rate Bill Stalls In Senate
• Helpful Health Care Guidance From Iowa Supreme Court
• Q&A With SmithAmundsen's Carmel Cosgrave
• CMS Urges 5th Circ. To Crush Preferred Pharmacy Appeal
• Ex-NY Hospital Network Head Gets 3 Years For Bribes
• Auto Machinery Maker Loses Another Calif. Asbestos Ruling
• CVS Pharmacies Battle Controlled Drugs Sales Ban In DC Circ.
• Obama's Budget Shafts Local Pharmacies, Groups Say
• NYU Seeks State's OK For $1B Medical Pavilion
• Sens. Seek Study On DEA Role In Emergency Drug Shortages
• White House Touts ACA's Efforts To Boost Nursing Numbers
• Religious Groups Can't Fight ACA Contraception Rule, US Says
• PSS World Medical Sues Rival For Stealing Secrets
• Allscripts Enacts Poison Pill Following Stock Value Drop
• The Costs Of A Potential Blue Cross Conspiracy
• Q&A With Greenberg Traurig's Michael Malone
• Antitrust Officials Still Skeptical On ACO Benefits
• Health Insurers Face New Disclosure Rules Under Calif. Bill
• Hospital Co. Capella Snags Slice Of $3B Medicare Deal
• PIP Regs Breach Legislative Intent, NJ Lawmaker Says
• 5th Circ. Stops Texas From Cutting Planned Parenthood Funds
• NJ Limits Lay People's Liability For Defibrillator Use
• Barton Still Applies To Bankruptcy Trustees, 3rd Circ. Says
• NY Hospital Pays $11.75M To End Medicare Turbocharge Suit
• Continental Asks High Court To Mull Arbitration In Thorpe Case
• CMS Delays Sunshine Act Compliance Until Jan. 1
• Polsinelli Shughart Snags 4 Bryan Cave Health Laterals
• Law360 Names Top Female Trial Attorneys
• Subtenant Not Entitled To Relief For Property Fixes: NY Court
• Medical Group Inks $4.5M FCA Settlement Over Medicare Bills
• Q&A With Gibbons' Barry Liss
• DEA Checkup — Controlled Substance Prescriptions
• FTC Chief Lambastes 11th Circ. Decision On Hospital Merger
• New DOJ Antitrust Chief Sets Sights On Health Care Mergers
• Investor Claims Allscripts Concealed Merger Woes
• SEIU To Drop Ballot Proposals In Deal With Hospital Group
• Medicare Fraudster Can Testify In $200M Kickback Trial
• Groups Fear Obama Order Sends Excessive Power Overseas
• DOD's Drug Price Controls Unfair, DC Circ. Hears
• 90 Women Sue Wash. AG For Challenging Health Care Reform
• Hospital Network Faces Calif. Suit Over Price Gouging
• Plan Audits Mark The Start Of DOL Enforcement Of PPACA
• Q&A With Seyfarth's Joan Casciari
• Predictive Coding — Putting The Cart Before The Horse
• Accretive Accuses Minn. AG Of Deception, Intimidation
• $5M Punitive Award Reversed In Philip Morris Engle Suit
• DOJ Vet With Big Biz Clients Rejoins Arnold & Porter
• Troutman Says Ex-Atty's $520M Malpractice Suit Came Too Late
• Dentist Group Says Texas Ad Rules Are Unconstitutional
• Senators Seek Help In Medicare, Medicaid Fraud Fight
• Hospitals Decry Proposed Medicare E-Records Rule
• Q&A With Haynes And Boone's Michael Silhol
• Dems Seek Reams Of Info On Accretive's Billing Practices
• Merge Healthcare Unit Wins $3M In Attys' Fees From Insurer
• 107 Charged In Record $450M Medicare Fraud Bust
• Universal Health To Pay $3.5M To Settle Medicare Fraud Suit
• Calif. Court Revives 5 Hennessy Asbestos Suits
• Bribe-Paying Hospital CEO Gets 4 Months
• Judge Sets Up $21M Fund For Welding Fumes MDL Plaintiffs
• Big Biz Hails Obama's Order To Align International Regs
• 5th Circ. Says Texas Can Cut Funds To Planned Parenthood
• DOJ Probing Humana Medical Claims, Doctor Loans in Fla.
• States Can't Challenge ACA's Contraception Rule, Feds Say
• Feds To Examine Possible ACA Loophole For Small Biz
• Coventry Health Case Managers Seek Class Cert. In OT Suit
• Blue Cross Says Licensing Deals Are Good For Competition
• Q&A With Dechert's Susan Hendrickson
• 5th Circ. To Rehear UnitedHealth Reimbursement Suit
• Millennium Says Ameritox Copied Lab Report Format
• Health Reform May Doom Employer Medical Plans, GOP Says
• Ill. Hospital Tried To Swipe Patients' Settlement Cash, Suit Says
• Excise Tax Audits May Add Bite To COBRA Enforcement