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Health - August, 2012

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• Brazil Bars 2 Hospital Deals Due To Buyers' Ties
• Pharmacy Can't Force Cardinal Health To Supply Painkillers
• Calif. Agency Fines 14 Hospitals For Safety Breaches
• $17M Indian Substance Abuse Grant Was Misused, Feds Say
• 4 Firms Feared Most By In-House Counsel
• Calif. Legislature OKs Bill For Consumer-Owned Health Plans
• High Court Grants Review Of CAFA Dispute
• Lawmakers At Odds With Minn. Over $30M Medicaid Payment
• SEIU, Kaiser Escape Hospital Operator's Antitrust Claims
• Genesis Nurse Forfeited Stake In FLSA Suit, High Court Hears
• Ohio Hospital Group Must Face Rival's Boycott Complaint
• Defining The Mission Of The Complex Case
• Haynes And Boone Antitrust Bungle Cost $118M, Rx.com Says
• Health Industry Would Lose $22B Skipping ICD-10, HHS Says
• FTC Sues To Get Patient Data Spreadsheet From LabMD
• 7th Circ. Refuses To Review Chicago Hospital Zoning Fight
• REIT Pays $103M For Senior Care, Medical Office Properties
• 'Obamacare' Repeal Vows Reign At GOP Convention
• Calif. Medical Group Accuses Aetna Of Blacklisting Its Docs
• St. Vincent's Resolves $7B In Claims So Far
• Shareholders Say Assisted Living Hid Low Occupancy, Citations
• Cross-State Insurance Poses Challenges, Texas Sens. Told
• Wolters Kluwer Must Face Accutane Case In Pa. Court
• Hospital At Center Of Hep C Probe Raises Privacy Questions
• Judge Broadens Class In Apria FLSA Class Action
• Gentiva Clinicians Denied Class Cert. In OT Lawsuit
• Counting Employees: More Difficult Than You Think
• Rx.com Had A Solid Antitrust Case, Ex-DOJ Atty Says
• Employer Group Prods White House Over Dependent Coverage
• Ariba Shareholders Sign Off On SAP's $4.3B Takeover
• Ga. Health Insurance Law Violates ERISA, Trade Group Says
• Calif. Self-Insurance Restriction Bill Hits Delay
• Deferring Deportation Won't Get Immigrants Insured: HHS
• Higher Medical Awards May Be Closer To Reality In Calif.
• Texas Court Sinks Retaliation Suit Under Workers' Comp Act
• NLRB Confidentiality Ruling: What Employers Should Do Now
• State Farm Wants Out Of Suit Over Medical Biller's Faxes
• Maxim Nurses Denied Class Cert. In OT Action
• Rx.com Exec Lied, Haynes And Boone Says In Malpractice Case
• Cintas Sued By Hospital Over Junk Fax Ads For Doc Shredding
• Notre Dame Fires Back In Contraception Rule Battle
• Goldman Denies Conflict In $5B Amerigroup-WellPoint Deal
• Pediatricians Urge HHS To Allow CHIP As Benchmark Plans
• NJ Court Sends Retired Cops' Benefits Suit To Arbitration
• Highmark, UPMC Extend Contract Amid Antitrust Feud
• CVS Says Pharmacies Must Arbitrate Patient Info Claims
• FTC Gains Support In Opposing Ga. Hospital Merger
• Docs Say 1-Year Delay For ICD-10 Isn't Enough
• HHS Escapes Christian College's Contraception Suit
• Zooming In On A Major Social Media Issue For Health Care
• Rx.com Says Haynes And Boone Agreed To File Antitrust Suit
• Docs Face Tricky Task In Patient Access E-Records Goals
• Judge Guts Challenge To $29B Express Scripts-Medco Merger
• Ex-El Paso Officials Get Prison For Health Insurance Bribes
• Health Insurance Rate Hikes Will Go On Calif. Ballot In 2014
• Accomplice In NY Hospital Kickback Scheme Denied Release
• Texas Court Backs Medical Malpractice Cap
• NY Has Recovered $1.7M In Medicaid Overpayments: Auditors
• West Penn Says Antitrust Suit Aims To Shield UPMC Monopoly
• Baylor Escapes Some Liability In Patient's Rabies Death
• Feds Drop Suit Over Alleged UMS Medicare Kickbacks
• Calif. Liability Rule's Farewell May Spur More Settlements
• DC Circ. Upholds NIH Stem-Cell Research Funding
• Omnicare Settles FCA Kickback Suit Over $25M Acquisition
• Hospital Chain Puts Up $16M To End Skid Row Kickbacks Case
• Horizon Unit Closes $75M Loan For Health, Tech Investments
• Ex-El Paso Official Cops To $100M Kickback Scheme
• Judge Preserves Ameritox's False Ad Suit Against Millennium
• Tenet Ducks Nurse's Class Arbitration Bid In Wage Case
• Judge Rejects New Charges Against Ex-NY Sen.
• What's Making Attorneys Flee Their Firms?
• Judge Again Tosses Suit Challenging ACA
• HHS Finalizes Unique Health Plan ID Rule, Coding Delay
• Cigarette Warning Label Battle Likely Headed For High Court
• PPACA: What's Next For Life Sciences Companies
• Health Plan Forks Over $322M To End Calif. Medicaid Probe
• Haynes And Boone Knew Rx.com Relied On It, Founder Says
• Antitrust Review Extended For WellPoint's $5B Amerigroup Buy
• Economics Professors Back FTC In Phoebe Merger Case
• CMS Releases Final Stage 2 Rule On Health E-Records
• Pfizer, Others Shake Price-Fixing Appeal From Pharmacies
• HHS Gives States $765M For Health Insurance Exchanges
• 2nd Circ. Balks At Notion Of Attys Whistleblowing On Clients
• CBO Trims Spending Forecasts for Medicare, Medicaid
• Insurance Exchanges Won't Curb Costs Without Reforms: Study
• Bradley Arant Hires Health Care Pro From Balch & Bingham
• Ex-State Dept. Official Tauscher Joins Baker Donelson
• Triune's Catholic Owners Challenge 'Evil' Contraception Rule
• Antitrust Risks Of Health Care Consolidation
• The Impact Of Terminating Employed Physicians
• Medicare Recruiter Gets 5 Years For $205M Fraud
• $900M NYC Redevelopment Delayed By Nearby Condo, Suit Says
• VA Seeks To Ax Vet Contractor That Farmed Out All Its Work
• Haynes And Boone At Fault For Late Filing, Witness Says
• King & Spalding Hires Ex-WellCare GC In Washington
• Psych Counseling Can Be A Medical Exam Under ADA: 6th Circ.
• Altoona Health System Sued Over OT Pay Practices
• $2M Tribal Group, HHS Contract Suit Remanded By Fed. Circ.
• Class Grows In Cigna Autism Treatment Denial Suit
• Medicare To Pay Bonuses For Better Primary Care
• Cardinal Subpoenaed By DEA, DOJ Over Drug Diversion
• Health Care REIT Inks $2B Deal For Sunrise Senior Living
• Rx.com Sank Before Late Antitrust Suit, Says Blamed Firm
• FTC Pharmacy Deal Shows Joint Bargaining Needs Justification
• 5th Circ. Lets Texas Defund Planned Parenthood
• Out-Of-State Medical Providers Can't Be Sued In Pa.: Court
• Fight Over Chiropractor Rules Reaches Texas High Court
• Hospitals Press For Clarity On ACA Medicaid Funding To States
• State Farm Off Hook For Injury Suits Against Pharmacy
• NJ Senate Clears Bill Targeting Organ Transplant Bias
• 6th Circ. Tosses Nurse's Lunch Pay Suit As Time-Barred
• Pfizer Tells 1st Circ. Neurontin MDL Shows No Proof Of Harm
• State Regulations Provide Antitrust Immunity, Blue Cross Says
• Haynes & Boone Blames Rx.com For Antitrust Suit's Late Filing
• 11th Circ.'s $195M Hospital Merger Case 'Flawed,' FTC Says
• ADA's Safe Harbor Rule Covers Wellness Plan: 11th Circ.
• Nursing Homes Sue Insurers For $3M In Hurricane Damages
• Supplemental State Medicaid Payments Rose By $8B, GAO Says
• Bovis Exits Hospital Construction Defect Suit For $1M
• GOP Reps. Give CMS 2 Weeks To Answer States On Health Law
• HHS Ignored Katrina Aftermath In Hospice Payment Row: Suit
• Davis Polk Advises Aetna In $7.3B Coventry Acquisition
• Changing Landscape Of Same-Sex Couples' Inheritance Rights
• Calif. HIPAA Overcharge Suit Paused For Blue Cross Appeal
• Hospital Interest In ACOs Low Despite Hype, Survey Shows
• CMS Names New Chief To Implement Key ACA Provisions
• Amerigroup Investors Sue Over $4.9B WellPoint Deal
• Va. Health Department Faces Pay Discrimination Class Suit
• Bill Bolstering Calif. False Claims Law Heads To Gov.
• Lack Of Jurisdiction Sinks Hospitals' ACA Suit: 5th Circ.
• Slamming Aetna Execs, Judge Tosses Medicaid Contract Suit
• PPACA: What Employers Must Know
• The New, Nongovernmental Face Of Food Regulators
• Cigna Seeks To Recover $2.5M In Allegedly False Claims
• Cigna Slams Bid To Nix Arbitration In $100M Sex Bias Suit
• J&J, Pfizer, Others Beat Pharmacies' Drug Pricing Suit
• Haynes & Boone Kicks Off Defense In $118M Malpractice Trial
• Blue Cross Denied Document Request In Mich. Antitrust Case
• Aetna Hits Clinics, Hospital With Billing Fraud Claims
• Jury Awards Fresenius $95M Tax Break Due To FCA Settlement
• Judge Won't Revive $2B FCA Suit Against Beth Israel
• Golden Hour Cleared Of IP Deception In Wake Of Therasense
• La. Denies United's Protest Of Blue Cross Health Contract
• Nurses Can Be Experts In Standard Of Care Suits: Ind. Court
• Calif. Court Sides With Blue Shield In Maternity Coverage Feud
• Unveiled: A New Enforcement Method In GSK Settlement
• Calif. Court Can't Repay Gay Spouse's Health Coverage: GAO
• Calif. Court Revives Suit Over Nursing Home Staffing Levels
• HHS Recruits Pharmacies To Tout ACA's Medicare Benefits
• Carlyle Fund Buys 13.5% Stake In Chinese Health Care Co.
• Hospital Can't Depose Government Officials In FCA Suit
• Nursing Homes Can't Skirt Reporting Rules, 3rd Circ. Says
• Faulty Breast Implants Spark UK Cosmetic Surgery Probe
• Dignity Health OT Class Action Booted Back To State Court
• Court Loosens Restrictions On Calif. Health Whistleblowers
• Time Warner Urges End To Hospital Internet Discount In Texas
• Drug, Device Makers Push For Final Physician Payment Rule
• 5th Circ. Upholds Doc's Fraud Conviction, 10-Year Sentence
• Federal Insurance Exchange Is On Track, CMS Head Promises
• Fed. Circ. Kills Challenge To $230M Army Health Contract
• United Blasts La. For Tapping Blue Cross For Health Contract
• Man Gets 18 Months For Aiding $200M Medicare Ripoff
• House GOP Calls On HHS To Address Inappropriate Lobbying
• CMS Overpaid $4.6M For Drugs Last Quarter, Report Says
• Guilt By Position: Re-Emergence Of The RCO Doctrine
• Hospitals See Painful Possibilities In Ryan's Medicaid Plan
• Health Network, Med Discount Co. Dodge Docs' Marketing Suit
• ACA Unlikely to Change Employer Health Coverage, GAO Says
• Dignity Health Says Brinker Sinks Nurses' Overtime Suit
• Planned Parenthood Can't Ditch Medicaid Billing Case
• Ambulance Co. Ran Medicare Billing Scam, Whistleblower Says
• Deloitte Escapes $300M Malpractice Suit
• Dental Supplier Failed To Pay Technicians OT, Suit Says
• Goldman, NEA Inject $54M Into Indian Health Care Co.
• Rx For Electronic Prescribers: New CMS Hardship Exemptions
• Ex-Judges Urge High Court To Review Prosecutorial Misconduct
• HCA Defends ER Billing Practices Ahead Of NY Times Expose
• Injury Benefits Time-Barred In Flu Vaccine Suit: Fed Circ.
• Blue Cross Targets Scranton Over $2M In Unpaid Bills
• HHS Hiding Info On $8.3B Medicare Bonus Program, GOP Says
• Calif. Lawmakers Demand Contracts For Health District CEOs
• A Critique Of Chief Justice's Commerce Clause Analysis
• The Benefit Corporation: A Silent Trend
• House GOP Calls For Probe Into Funding Of Health Reform Law
• Aetna Hit With Suit Over New Specialty Pharmacy Network
• Orthofix Bribed Doctors To Use Surgical Services, Suit Says
• NJ Court Shields Hospitals' Privacy Under Patient Safety Act
• AmerisourceBergen Subpoenaed By DEA Over Drug Diversion
• Alpine Health Faces Suit Over Unsolicited Fax Ads
• No Arbitration For CVS In Patient Info Suit, 5th Circ. Told
• Humana Buys Employee Services Firm Harris Rothenberg
• Unisys Owes $30M On Faulty Medicaid Pay System, Suit Says
• High Court Asked To Hear Medicare Secondary Payor Dispute
• Syphilis Patients Win Reprieve In Fight Over Shots
• M*Modal Settles Shareholder Dispute Over $1B Buyout
• NJ Gov. Vetoes For-Profit Hospital Disclosure Bill
• Fed. Circ. Mulls CRA's Protest Of $230M Army Contract
• Reps. Seek Audit Of Tricare Mail-Order Drug Program
• 6 Pa. Hospital Networks Beat Nurses' Wage, OT Suit
• Doctors Say Laws Are Interfering With Patient Relationships
• Hospital Accused Of Billing Medicare For Substandard Labs
• Employers Say ACA Will Hike Their Health Costs: Report
• NM Hospital's Ch. 11 Plan Gets Clean Bill Of Health
• Electronic Transfer Rules Could Save Up To $9B, HHS Says
• Docs Protest Texas 'Gag Order' On Abortion Discussions
• Pitfalls Abound For Employers Trying Wellness Programs
• Prosecutors Say SF Clinics Overbilled Medicaid
• Rx.com Says Haynes And Boone Is Ducking Upcoming Trial
• Whirlpool Beats Maytag Retirees' ERISA Suit In 8th Circ.
• Medicare Contractors Overpaid $1.6M For Cancer Drug: OIG
• Vaccine Buyers Allowed To Bring Antitrust Suit Against Sanofi
• Fed. Circ. Partly Nixes AllCare Fees Award In Highmark IP Row
• Epstein Lands GE Expert On Health Tech For LA, DC Offices
• US Claims Notre Dame, Others Can't Fight Contraception Rule
• Calif. DAs Sue Walgreen For $60M Over Toxic Waste Disposal
• NY Wants To Keep $10B In Medicaid Funds To Continue Reform
• Obama Signs Camp Lejeune Water Pollution Health Care Law
• Much Ado About The Crime Of Doing Nothing
• Travelers Ordered To Defend Hospital In Sex Abuse Suits
• Calif. False Claims Suit Against Kmart May Head East
• BNY Appeals Fight Over $8M Claim In Hospital Bankruptcy
• Hospital Group To Suspend Docs' Noncompetes In FTC Deal
• Ascension's Takeover Of 3 NJ Hospitals Falls Through
• DOJ Probes HCA On Medical Necessity Of Heart Surgeries
• Judge Boots Autism Libel Case Against UK Medical Journal
• HHS Slipping On Safe Injection Oversight, GAO Finds
• Sens. Ask CFPB To Address Medical Debt Collection Errors
• 6th Circ. Kills Ohio Limits On Medicaid Docs' Political Support
• Judge Questions Evidence In Maxim Nurses' OT Action
• Oxford Health Asks High Court To Block Class Arbitration
• Certifying Compliance Doesn't Decide FCA Burden, US Says
• Ex-Ala. Gov. Returning To Prison For 6 1/2 Years
• Medicare Launches Program To Combat Wheelchair Fraud
• Injunction Can't Ax Dismissal Bid In Contraception Suit: US
• Mayo Clinic Pays $1M To Settle False Billing Claims Suit
• Schrodinger's Tax: Opening The 'Obamacare' Box
• Sears Says Kickback, FCA Claims Against Kmart Don't Hold Up
• House GOP Slams IRS On Federal Health Exchange Subsidies
• Overriding Medicare Doctor Pay Cuts Will Cost $18.5B: CBO
• Pharmacy Group Opposes $7B Swipe Fee Antitrust Settlement
• Lawmakers Seek To Deny Medicaid Payments To IRS Debtors
• Ex-County Officials Plead Guilty In Kickback Scandal
• Sens. Want Detailed Cost-Benefit Studies For New Regs
• Fla., Texas Lead In Shady Medicare Billing For Home Care
• Arbitrating Cigna Sex Bias Suit Limits Rights, Worker Says
• When A Business Associate Is Also A Covered Entity
• Pa. Hospital Network Bests Medicare Fraud Suit In 3rd Circ.
• Texas Mulls How To Fund ACA, Seeks Feds' Input On Exchanges
• 9th Circ. Blocks Arizona's New Late-Term Abortion Ban
• States Struggle To Prep Medicaid Expansion, GAO Says
• States Eye Whether Mass. Health Cost Bill Is Tough Enough
• Millennium Labs Can't Derail Ameritox's Kickbacks Suit
• Locke Lord Steers Torchmark's $219M Insurer Acquisition
• 2 Ex-Ill. Public Officials, Others Deny Corruption Schemes
• Patching Up Group Dental Practices With Private Equity
• GOP Declares War On Health Insurance Exchange Subsidies