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Health - September, 2012

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• Calif.'s Expanded Whistleblower Rights Pave Way For More Suits
• Lobbyist Gets 3 Months For Bribing Ex-NY Pol Kruger
• Amerigroup To Shed Va. Unit Amid WellPoint Merger Probe
• Republicans Knock Health Exchange Grants Over TV Plugs
• Dentsply Can't Ax Suit Alleging Dental Tool Defects
• Judge Preserves Supremacy Clause Attack On Medicaid Cuts
• Hospital Can't Use Immunity To Avoid Talking In Patent Suit
• HealthCare Partners Accused Of Operating As Illegal HMO
• West Penn, Highmark Cancel $475M Deal Amid Antitrust Feud
• More Scrutiny For Nursing Homes Under ACA
• Alger Can't Evade Investment Manager's Whistleblower Suit
• Withdrawal Of $26M Quest FCA Suit Blocked By Judge
• GOP Threatens To Subpoena HHS Over $8B Medicare Program
• Whistleblowers Behind Texas' High Fraud Settlement Recovery
• NJ Radiologist Cops To $2M Kickback Fraud
• HHS To Give Out $224M In Latest Round Of Exchange Grants
• UnitedHealth Wins Round In Fight With Excess Insurers
• Workers' Comp Bias Rule Doesn't Allow Tort Claims, Court Says
• 6th Circ. Upholds Medicare Fraudster's 10-Year Sentence
• Medicare Wrongly Paid $25M For Painkiller Refills, HHS Says
• 7th Circ. Revisits Widower's ERISA Suit Over Medical Bills
• Obama, Romney Duel Over Health Care Ahead Of 1st Debate
• FCA Suit Alleging Omnicare Medicare Kickbacks Trimmed
• Calif. On Board As Health Care Antitrust Enforcer
• Hospitals Point Finger At CMS For 'Upcoding' Problems
• Aetna To Pay Record Fine For Providing Abortion Coverage
• Blue Cross, Others Duck Hospital Group GC's Firing Claims
• HHS Passes Clinical Trial Reporting Authority To FDA
• Manufacturer Stalling $110M Hospital Expansion, Suit Says
• Spectrum, InGenesis Must Arbitrate $30M Army Contract Fight
• Indiana Can't Cap Medicaid Dental Services, 7th Circ. Says
• Astellas Skirts $867M Antitrust Suit Over Heart Test Drug
• Unclear Standards For Idaho's Restrictive Covenants
• GOP Sen. Joins Chorus Demanding Exchange Info From HHS
• Ex-NY Hospital CEO Charged In $1.4M Kickback Scheme
• High Court Takes Up NC Law On Medicaid Tort Recoupment
• Hospitals Face Tougher Fraud Scrutiny Amid Shift To E-Records
• Hospital Mergers May Help Competition, AHA Tells 6th Circ.
• King & Spalding Lures Health Care Pro From HHS
• 3rd Circ. Lets UnitedHealth Reject Chiro Care In ERISA Case
• 1st Circ. Won't Block Maine Health Plan Disclosure Law
• Patient Suing Stryker Can't Get Calif. Hospital Records
• How To Approach Aberrant Physician Behavior
• New Calif. Law Relaxes Contraceptive Restrictions
• Home Care Exec Cops To Part In Record $374M Medicare Fraud
• CVS Pharmacy Technicians Seek Class Cert. In OT Row
• New FDA Team Seeks To Spur Antibiotics Innovation
• Simple Health Plan Docs Launch Amid Insurer Objections
• Health Care Pro Joins Edwards Wildman From DOJ
• WellCare Unit Coughs Up $6.5M To Bury Overtime Action
• Ill. Can't Make Pharmacists Dispense Plan B, Court Says
• Case Study: Charles Strouchler V. Nirav Shah
• Barnes & Thornburg Snags Ex-K&L Gates Employment Pro
• Hospitals Should Have A Say In E-Records Design: AHA
• Medical Equipment Rental Cos. Agree To End Antitrust Row
• 8th Circ. Tosses $13M Suit Over UnitedHealth Intermediary
• Mixing Agency Rules May Mean More Taxable Medical Devices
• Patients To Lose With Medicare Advantage Cuts, Congress Told
• Orthofix, Pfizer FCPA Cases A Sign Of What's To Come
• Medicaid Expansion Will Keep Premiums Lower, Report Says
• Health Law's Employer Mandate Draws Challenge From Okla.
• Texas Doc Pleads Not Guilty To New Medicare Fraud Charges
• Obama Admin's Welfare Waiver Rule Snubbed By House
• CMS Slashes Payments To NY Over $15B Overbilling Claims
• House Panel OKs Bill To Ax Brokers' Fees From Insurer Costs
• NY Fines UnitedHealth Cos. For Not Explaining Coverage
• Brown McCarroll Hires Health Care Compliance Pros
• Case Study: Yussen V. MCARE Fund
• Sutter Health Hit With Antitrust Suit Over Medical Plans
• When Must Gov't Preserve Docs In An FCA Case?
• Politics Delay Senate Vote On 6-Month Stopgap Budget
• Medicare Advantage Enrollment Up, HHS Says
• CBO Adds 2M Uninsured To Health Reform Penalty Estimates
• Dems Fight Bill Over Health Insurer Rebate Reductions
• Public Health Pro Rejoins Ropes & Gray From Harvard
• HCA Fined $16.5M Over Whistleblower FCA Kickback Claims
• Doctor Convicted On False Fen-Phen Injury Claims
• Case Study: Kroll V. White Lake Ambulance
• Millennium Labs Wants $5M Coverage For HIPAA Probe
• Pfizer's Neurontin Marketing Hurt Payors, 1st Circ. Hears
• Pharmacies Ill-Prepared For Potential DEA Crackdown
• Health Groups Sue La. Over Hurricane Isaac Insurance Rule
• Sedgwick Adds 3 Attys With Enviro, Health Care Chops
• Ameritox Faces FCA Suit Over Physician Kickbacks
• Gibson Dunn Snags Former DOJ Antitrust Prosecutor
• Quorum Health Seeks KO In Ex-Exec's FCA Retaliation Suit
• Health REIT Pays $1B To Buy Out Sunrise Majority Partners
• Designing Health Care Apps: 4 Privacy Considerations
• Highmark Says Filed Rate Doctrine Bars Antitrust Claims
• College Targets HHS, Others In ACA Contraception Rule Suit
• HHS Sanctions Security Tools To Protect Health E-Records
• Democrat Moves To Allow Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
• Failed Ch. 7 Sparks $4.4M Malpractice Suit Against Porzio
• Coventry Investor Looks To Derail $7B Aetna Buyout
• Doctors Can't Shake Humana's Antitrust Suit
• GE, Cardinal Escape Antitrust Class Action Over Imaging Drug
• New E-Records Bill Would Expand Doctor Bonuses
• Hospital Accuses US Of Ignoring Past Ruling In FCA Case
• Harvard Hospital Calls Foul On $1.5M Data Breach Fine
• Holland & Knight Hires SNR Denton White Collar Veteran
• Licensure And Certification In Health Care Acquisitions
• No Proof CDC Leaked Atty's Name In TB Scare, 11th Circ. Says
• Congressman Wants Special HHS, EPA Hiring Law Curbed
• REIT, Assisted Living Co. Enter $106M Senior Housing Deal
• Obama Cautions Hill Over 'Deeply Destructive' Budget Cuts
• Katten Muchin Adds Ex-NY Prosecutor To White Collar Practice
• State Immune To Medicaid Rate Claims, Mass. High Court Says
• PE Group Pays $130M For Health Care REIT's Sunrise Manager
• Evanston Wants Off Hook For Staffing Co.'s Junk Fax Row
• CMS Auditors Immune To Medicare Suits, 3rd Circ. Says
• LA Doctors Say Health Net Denies Coverage For Sick Patients
• A Primer On Alternative Fee Arrangements
• McGuireWoods Dodges Bankrupt Hospital's Malpractice Suit
• House Passes Stopgap Bill To Fund Government For 6 Months
• 1st Circ. Nixes Maine's Bid For Early Medicaid Waiver Ruling
• House Panel Moves To Block HHS Welfare Waiver Rule
• Bloomberg Says NYC Sugary Drink Limit Will Survive Suits
• Medicaid Expansion Refusals May Affect Hospital Cuts: CMS
• Minn. Hospital Hounded Patients For Money, Inspectors Say
• 6th Circ. Junks Pharmacy's Express Scripts Contract Fight
• Hospital Groups Urge Reps. To Reject Medicare Payment Cap
• 8th Circ. Backs HHS, CMS In $3M Medicaid Tax Dispute
• Contractors And Campaign Contributions: The Latest Case
• Mo. Exempts Insurers, Employers From Contraception Mandates
• HHS Secretary Broke Law With Obama Endorsement: OSC
• Med Groups Ask Congress To Repeal Medicare Doctor Pay Cuts
• Ex-Troutman Atty Can Appeal Ruling On Nursing Home Deals
• HHS Under Fire For Slow Pace Of Health Exchange Guidance
• Addressing The Scope Of CAFA In Supreme Court
• DEA Strips 2 CVS Pharmacies Of Drug Licenses
• Kirkland Guides Thoma Bravo In $195M Mediware Buy
• Warrantless Seizure Of Medical Records OK'd In Drug Case
• House Mulls Quick-Fix Spending Bill To Buy 6 More Months
• GOP Bill Seeks To Reduce Rebates By Health Insurers
• Patients May Provide Better Info On Medical Errors: Agency
• 9th Circ. Backs HHS Bar On Medicare Claim Reviews
• Pharmacies Renew Challenge To Express Scripts, Medco Tie-Up
• Pharmacy Consultants Accused Of Trade Secret Theft
• Rebates, Rate Hike Limits Cost Insurers $2B Under ACA
• Medicare Medical Equipment Bidding Flawed, Panel Hears
• Skadden Atty Says ACA Exchanges Can't Handle Subsidy Math
• Ex-Pharmacy Directors Hit UHS, Drugmakers With FCA Suit
• FHA — Still Essential For Health Care Facilities
• Attys. Defend Most-Favored Nation Clauses In Health Contracts
• Haynes And Boone Settles $118M Antitrust Malpractice Suit
• 9/11 Responders Gain Federal Cancer Coverage
• BCBS Hit With $67M Antitrust Suit By Heart Monitoring Co.
• AdvancePCS Antitrust Row Can't Be Arbitrated, 3rd Circ. Told
• Health Contractor Strikes $30M Deal In Wells Fargo Loan Suit
• Chilean High Court Backs $40M Pharmacy Price-Fixing Fines
• ACA Boosts Private Health Coverage For Young Adults: Study
• Analysis: Ind., Ky. and Ohio's Health Insurance Exchange
• 1st Circ. Rejects Antitrust, Constitutional Claims In HMO Row
• HHS Won't Regulate Online Health Info Sharing For Now
• Health Issues Top Agenda As Congress Returns
• Vanguard Health Gets OK To Build $350M Children's Hospital
• WellPoint Price-Fixing MDL Survives Dismissal Bids
• Aetna Sues Jacksonville Over Contract Award Process
• Hospital Immune To Doctor's Suspension Suit, 10th Circ. Rules
• Calif. Hospital Chain Strikes $6M Deal With OT Class
• 11th Circ. Lets ID Theft Victims Sue Health Insurer
• How Physician Acquisitions Attract Antitrust Scrutiny
• Haynes And Boone Blameless, Says Ex-Texas High Court Judge
• GAO Welfare Ruling Adds Congress To Agency Rulemaking Mix
• HHS Must Focus On Health IT For Crucial Reforms, IOM Says
• Sunrise Investor Challenges $845M Health Care REIT Deal
• Feds Join $11M Medicare Fraud Case Against Fla. Hospice
• Calif. AG Targets Pharmacy Co. Over Free Phones, Other Perks
• Universal Health Relators Win $1.4M Piece Of FCA Deal
• Age Of The Whistleblower: Incentives And Protections
• Haynes And Boone Seeks To Debunk Rx.com Conspiracy Theory
• Hospital Group Seeks Medicare Reimbursement Policy Changes
• ACO-Like Group Cut Hospital Stays By Half: Study
• Cornell Must Pay $2M In AIDS Research Case: 2nd Circ.
• Sunshine Act Authors Urge CMS To Finalize Rule
• NYC Hospital Pays $13M To Settle Medicaid Kickback Case
• Calif. OKs Raising Insurers' Share Of Fraud-Fighting Costs
• CMS Takes Flak Over Proposed Medicare Fee Schedule Changes
• Planned Parenthood Asks Full 5th Circ. To Hear Defunding Case
• GAO Says Obama Welfare Policy Must Go Before Congress
• La. Issues Insurance Rule To Help Isaac Victims
• Haynes And Boone Could Have Won Fumbled Case: Witness
• Maine Says Medicaid Eligibility Rule Is Unconstitutional
• Medicare Will Need Better Data For Care Incentives: Study
• US Sanctioned For Trashing CHS Medicaid Fraud Docs
• Hospital Failed To Report Tech Who Infected Patients: Suit
• Dallas Likely To Approve Plans For $225M Cancer Center
• $160M Chinatown Hospital Project Gets OK From San Francisco
• Xerox Unit Faces Probe Over Texas Medicaid Braces Work
• Democrats Say ACA Not End of Health Reform
• Texas Sen. Says Insurance Commish Should Be Sacked
• Acadia Pours $90M Into Chicago-Area Health Care Property
• Armey Asks High Court To End Penalty For Waiving Medicare
• Drawing The Line Between Collective And Class Actions
• Strategies For Moving To Strike Class Allegations