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Health - August, 2013

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• Doc Must Arbitrate With HMO In Contract Row, NJ Court Says
• Texas High Court Says Docs Named In Suits Are 'Parties'
• Health Clinic Office Manager Gets 68 Months For $63M Fraud
• Physical Therapy Cos. Can't Duck FCA Kickback Suit
• Slashed $19M Verdict Against Stonebridge Upheld On Appeal
• Texas, Fla. Lead US In Rate Of Uninsured Residents
• W.Va. Hospital To File For Ch. 11, Seeks Partner
• US Bashes Cardiologist's Bid To Beat $17M FCA Judgment
• Smith & Nephew Seeks To Ax Doc's Suit Over Device Training
• Data Leakage — Threat Of Not Knowing Where PHI Resides
• 9th Circ. Finds Calif.'s Gay Conversion Ban Constitutional
• CMS To Require ACA Insurers Accept Prepaid Debit Cards
• Rotech's Ch. 11 Reorganization Gets Judge's Thumbs-Up
• Equal Nursing Home Coverage For Same-Sex Spouses: HHS
• Rural Hospitals Face Do-Or-Die Fight For Coveted Payments
• 7th Circ. Revives FCA Case, Rips Whistleblower's Tactics
• ResCare Can't Duck Suit Over Job Seeker Credit Checks
• US Atty Had Conflict In Bribery Probe, Ex-Ala. Gov. Claims
• FTC Hammers LabMD Over Consumer Privacy Concerns
• Kaiser Gets Transport Contractor's FCA Suit Pared
• CVS Makes A HIPAA Mess With Murky Rewards Program
• CMS Rule Lets States Run Small-Biz Health Exchanges
• CMS Delays Final Approval Of ACA Insurance Exchange Plans
• Fla. Mayor Arrested For Secret Lobbying Activities
• Wal-Mart Extends Employee Benefits To Same-Sex Couples
• Challenges To 'Gay Conversion' Bans Face Long Odds
• Emory University To Pay $1.5M Over Double-Billing Claims
• How To Comply With OIG's Exclusion Bulletin
• AHA Fears 'Devastating' Effects Of Medicare Dialysis Cuts
• Cardiologist Seeks To Toss $17M FCA Judgment
• Kirkland Keeps Deals Flowing With Midsize PE Work
• Porter Wright Adds Antitrust Pro From Bradley Arant
• MRI Diagnostic Co. Pays $3.6M To End Kickback, FCA Claims
• Pa. High Court To Hear Rite Aid Appeal On Pharmacy Records
• Mich. Senate Backs ACA Medicaid Expansion
• Doctor Must Serve 2 1/2 Years, Pay $8M For Medicare Fraud
• CMS Plans Further Crackdown On Test-Strip Billing
• 8th Circ. Calls Mayo Clinic's $1.9M Fee Award 'Suspect'
• IRS Confirms Penalties For Affordable Care Act Abstainers
• Red Cross Takes Fight Over Benefit Changes To High Court
• Squire Sanders Adds Health Care, Corporate Partner In Ohio
• Mobile Doctors CEO Charged With Medicare Fraud
• 2nd Circ. Won't Revive Whistleblower's $2B Beth Israel Row
• 'Gay Conversion' Therapists Call NJ Law Religiously Biased
• Rival Union Takes $1M Fight With SEIU To High Court
• Calif. Providers Urge High Court To Reverse Medicaid Cuts
• 3rd Circ. Junks Suit Against Medicare Claim Contractors
• Medical Co. Owner Admits To $2.6M Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Marketer In $205M Miami Medicare Scam Gets 34 Months
• Rotech Equity Holders Out Of The Money, Judge Says
• Medical Residents Sue NY-Presbyterian Over Tax Refunds
• Stay Out Of Trouble With Proactive Self-Audits
• Lost Opportunities: Why Cases Settle At The Wrong Time
• Texas Medical Liability Act Applies To Nurse, Justices Say
• SAIC Wins $1.76B NASA Medical Contract After Protest
• Calif. Exchange's Hiccups Hint At Bumpy Debut For ACA
• AHA Wants Medicare Advantage Sequester Cuts Clarified
• $105M MedCap Settlement Doesn't Protect Wells Fargo
• Highmark Offers To Nix Ads If UPMC Negotiates New Deal
• Ailing Brooklyn Hospital On Hunt For Manager As SUNY Exits
• Pa. Judge OKs Highmark's $1.2B In Profits, Exec Bonuses
• How To Work With CMS' New 2-Midnight Benchmark
• CMS Urged To Make Medicare Payment Reviews Consistent
• Understanding ACA's Contraceptive Coverage Exemption
• NJ Pharmacy's Disclosure Lapse Disqualifies It From Medicaid
• $110M Award Suit Wrongly Remanded, 11th Circ. Finds
• Brooklyn Hospital In Limbo After Judge Voids Deal With NY
• No-Spouse Health Plans To Catch On As ACA Fees Loom
• Ga. Judge Won't Block $3B State Health Plan Implementation
• 9th Circ. Tosses Arizona's Anti-Abortion Appeal
• FTC Settles Phoebe Merger Fight But Can't Force Sale
• Wash. Hospital Districts Can't Curb Abortion Services: AG
• HHS Pushes Back On Medicare Doc 'Opt-Out' Worries
• Trying To Avoid ACA Mandate? ERISA 510 May Catch You
• 'Intervening Event' Carveouts Risk Muzzling Boards
• Doc Asks For Mercy Over Role In $205M Medicare Fraud
• Patient Groups Decry ACA Medicaid Drug Coverage Rule
• Kaleida Health Employees Lose Wage Suit In 2nd Circ.
• OnCure Can Seek Votes For Ch. 11 Plan, $125M Sale
• A-Rod's Cousin Gets Deposition Delayed In MLB Drug Suit
• Medical Staffing Cos. Accused Of Major Medicare Overbilling
• Law Firms' Intervention Bid Nixed In GSK Class Action
• ER Hoarding Claims Outside EMTALA's Scope, 10th Circ. Rules
• NY Judge Says LICH Closure Violates Spirit Of Sale Plan
• Chicago Hospital Sued Over Ruined Sperm Samples
• 6th Circ. Took A Wrong Turn In Omnicare Case
• Dumpster Diving For Deleted Files: When Is It Worth It?
• Fla. Gov. Raises Privacy Red Flags Over ACA 'Navigators'
• Medicare's Quality Demands Growing Too Fast, AHA Warns
• NJ Legislators Advance New Rules For Health Services Firms
• 6th Circ. Affirms Cleveland Hospital Exec's 9-Year Sentence
• Medical Supplier Can Use Cash On Hand To Fund Ch. 11 Sale
• Mount Sinai Doesn't Owe 10 Years Of Back Rent, Panel Rules
• Docs' Blue Cross Antitrust Claims Barred By Prior Settlement
• Firm In Sperm Bank Row With Judge's Wife Wants Suit Moved
• 5th Circ. Nixes Cardinal Whistleblower's Faulty Pumps Suit
• Judge Tentatively Axes Uniloc's Medical Flowsheet Patent Suit
• Sebelius Names New Healthcare Research And Quality Chief
• Crisis Mismanagement And Other Cautionary Tales
• PE Activity Is Increasing In The Urgent Care Space
• Cedars-Sinai Sues Lloyd's Over CT Scan Class Suit Coverage
• Pa. Justices Revive Dispute Over Malpractice Insurance Fund
• New York Pops Top On 'State Of Health' Benefits Exchange
• Okla. Judge Halts State Plan B Restrictions
• Anthem Blue Cross Shirks Eating Disorder Coverage, Suit Says
• 4th Circ. Backs Rite Aid's Unpaid Leave Policy In OT Suit
• Texas, DOJ Tentatively Settle Nursing Home ADA Challenge
• NJ Gov. Axes Bill Expanding Coverage For Substance Abuse
• Gay Conversion Therapy For Minors Banned In NJ
• Davis Wright Tremaine Adds Seattle Health Care Partner
• EEOC Wants To Settle 1st Genetic Bias Class Action
• As Health Info Proliferates, So Do HIPAA Pitfalls
• Shands Pays $26M Over Billing Errors At 6 Fla. Hospitals
• Health Care Providers Want Class Cert. In UnitedHealth Row
• 3rd Circ. Revives Device Co. Recoupment Suit Against Aetna
• Deals Rumor Mill: Lloyds, Alibaba, Carlyle
• Medical Supplier Hits Ch. 11 Planning $22M Sale
• Rainmaker Q&A: Lindquist & Vennum's David Melloh
• Millennium Labs' Kickback Suit Against Rival Survives
• The Crosscurrents Of Collateral Estoppel In Patent Suits
• HMA Hands Over Power To Glenview's Board Nominees
• GAO Weighs In On Federal Agency Appropriations Rule
• 10 Calif. Hospitals Fined Over Patient Safety Issues
• Planned Parenthood Outlet Pays $4.3M To Settle FCA Suit
• 5 Tips For Building A Topflight ACO
• Drug Co.'s Readmissions Work Survives Kickback Scrutiny
• Health Plans Sue Abbott Over Depakote Off-Label Scheme
• Middle-Market Spotlight: Avista-Zest
• Baker & McKenzie, Bifferato Released From Rotech Ch. 11
• Providers Urge CMS To Revise ACA Payment Grace Rule
• Fla. Insurance Regulator OKs Florida Blue Reorganization
• NYC Gets Nod From State To Address Hospital Crisis
• GOP Reps. Push Treasury To Cough Up ACA Credit Rule Docs
• Carlyle Scoops Up German Nursing Home Network
• Rainmaker Q&A: Sterne Kessler's Eric Steffe
• More Muscle For Medicare In Health Care Bankruptcies
• Gay Marriage Advocates Call NJ's Argument 'Disingenuous'
• Employers Should Plan For Micro-Union Fight After NLRB Win
• Sears Deserves Sanctions In FCA Pharmacy Suit, Court Hears
• Medicare Trumps State Workers' Comp Law, High Court Told
• Doc Urges High Court To Take Free Speech Retaliation Case
• Cigna Fights Bid For Cert. In Reimbursement Practices Suit
• Pa. Gov. Urges Civility In UPMC, Highmark Advertising War
• Multiplan Staffer In $2.3M Kickback Scheme Pleads Out
• HHS Grants ACA Consumer Guides $67M, Stressing Privacy
• UnitedHealth Slams Law Firms' Intervention Bid In GSK Action
• CMS Vows To Cull Ranks Of Rural Hospitals Getting Extra Pay
• AHA Takes Money To Endorse Campbell's Soups, Suit Says
• Corvex Plays Both Sides Of $8B Hospital Deal
• 6th Circ. Upholds NLRB's Specialty Healthcare Ruling
• Same-Sex Spouses Get Immigration Benefits Too
• Calif. Gov. Vetoes Bill Allowing Payment For Egg Donations
• NJ High Court Voids Arbitration Clause Asserted After Delay
• IRS Clarifies ACA Charitable Hospital Tax-Exempt Rule
• The Cost, And Ethics, Of Doing (Legal) Business
• Philly Won't Fight $6M Firefighter Health Care Payment
• Rotech Says Equity Committee Doomed By Its Own Report
• FCA's Reach At Stake As DOJ Jumps Into 1st Circ. Fight
• DLA Piper Snags Ex-Texas Medicaid Deputy Inspector General
• Photocopier Mishap Leads Insurer To Ink $1.2M HIPAA Deal
• Health Insurer Again Evades TCPA Suit Over Jobs Calls
• Consumer Group Wants Insurers Forced To Cover Autism Care
• DOD Will Offer Same-Sex Spouses Benefits By September
• McDermott Pushes CMS To Smooth Self-Disclosure Process
• Unique Areas Of Risk In Ill.'s ICFPA
• Walgreen Defrauded Medicare, Gave Kickbacks, FCA Suit Says
• St. Charles Can't Shake Therapist's FLSA Collective Action
• 2 Laws — Myriad Tax Consequences
• 7 Ohio Cancer Docs Face Charges Over Drug Imports
• NJ Can Bar New Immigrants From Health Program, Court Says
• UPMC Blasts Highmark's Jurisdiction Claims In Deal Dispute
• Domino's Founder Should Cover Birth Control, 6th Circ. Told
• Ex-Diagnostic Ventures Exec Ducks Fraud Claims
• Texas Atty Faces 42 Counts Of Health Care Theft, Fraud
• IRS Issues Final ACA Taxpayer Data-Sharing Rule
• Burns White Snags 4 Cohen Seglias Employment, Health Pros
• Pa. Fed. Judge, Doc Wife Sue Firm Over Sperm Bank Dispute
• LA Officials Accused Of Conducting 'Retaliatory' Audits
• Md. Hospital Settles Medicare Overbilling Claims
• Glenview Claims Victory In HMA Board Fight
• Rainmaker Q&A: Wolf Greenfield's Edward Gates
• Rotech Equity Holders Out To Ax $57M 'Make-Whole' Claim
• Skadden Gets Initial Nod On Fees In Hospital Fraud Case
• Okla. Judge Refuses To Dismiss State Challenge To ACA
• GOP Sen. Calls For Health Exchange Delay If Security Falters
• Judge Asked To Rethink Axing Claims In Hep C Class Action
• Arbitration Clause Can't Bar Wrongful Death Suit: Pa. Court
• US Wants Accused $35M Medicare Fraudster's Bond Revoked
• NJ Salesman Admits Bribing Docs In Lab-Referral Scheme
• ACA Push For Cost-Effective Care Spurs $200M Medtronic Buy
• Small Biz Owners Seek KO In ACA Exchange Subsidy Suit
• ISS Backs Glenview, Casts Shadow Over $8B Hospital Merger
• Oregon ACA Exchange To Use Agents In Early Rollout
• GAO Launches Probe Of Planned Parenthood Funds
• U.S. Joins Whistleblower Suit Against PharMerica
• With Stark Law Loophole Under Fire, Docs Eye Bottom Line
• FDA Links 15 Infections To Texas Compounding Pharmacy
• ARC Healthcare To Drop $123M On 4 UnitedHealth Properties
• Pa. Insurance Dept. Overbilled For Med Mal Fund, Court Says
• Blue Cross Can't Shake Calif. Law Claim In Policyholder Suit
• How To Avoid Denial-Of-Access Disputes With EHR Vendors
• As Health Care Reform Nears Launch, Litigation Looms
• Rotech Equity Holders Slam Ch. 11 Plan
• Wells Fargo Beats Suit Over Securities-Lending Losses
• EEOC Sues Hospital For Firing Disabled Worker
• La. Must Return $240M In Medicaid Money, 5th Circ. Told
• Idaho Wins $20M Federal Grant For ACA Exchange
• PSS Says Ex-Workers Took Trade Secrets, Clients To New Co.
• Compounder Wins Transfer Of Eye Injury Suits To La.
• Colo. Christian Univ. Renews ACA Contraception Rule Fight
• Ambulance Co. Rural/Metro Seeks OK For Restructuring Deal
• Philly Ordered To Pay $6M To Firefighters' Health Care Fund
• Keep Watch Of Calif.'s Health Care Construction Bill
• DaVita Seeks To Toss Dialysis Products Class Action
• UPMC Continues Fight For Docs On $5M Antitrust Deal
• Hedge Fund Could Play Spoiler Role In $7.6B Hospital Deal
• Dining Group Ups Pressure To Ease ACA Employer Mandate
• CORRECTED: Health Care Reform Poised To Disrupt Contractor Labor Costs
• CMS Weighs Disclosure Of Physician Payment Data
• Maxim Healthcare Workers Get Conditional Cert. In OT Fight
• Primary Health Holds On To $9.6M Bad-Faith Win
• American Apparel Health Plan Shirked Bill, Hospital Says
• Officials Say ACA Security Check Cutting It Close To Deadline
• Pittsburgh's Suit Over UPMC Tax Status Sent To State Court
• Mich. Cancer Doc Charged With $35M Medicare Fraud Scheme
• WellPoint Settlement: A Warning For HIPAA-Covered Entities
• 2nd Circ.'s Take On LBOs Of Privately Held Securities
• Ambulance Co. Rural/Metro's $75M DIP Loan Gets Interim OK
• Head Of Federal Health IT Office Announces Departure
• Pharmacy Association Takes Issue With HIPAA Revisions
• Issa Prods NY Agency, Nurse Group For Medicaid Audit Info
• Domino's Founder Can't Evade ACA Mandate, HHS Tells 6th Circ.
• Arnold & Porter Adds FCA, Health Care Fraud Pro
• CMS Revises National Payment Policy For Drugs, Devices
• Medicare's Freeze On Suppliers Marks Bold Anti-Fraud Push
• UPMC Says Highmark Lured Patients With False Ads
• Medicare Overpays For Canceled Surgeries, Report Says
• What May Come Of CMS' Proposed Device Regulations
• 10th Circ. Won't Hear Bid To Undo Medicaid Payment Freeze
• NJ Firm Hit With Malpractice Suit Over Doc's Bankruptcy
• Calif. Lawmakers To Take On Minimum Wage, CEQA Bills
• $200M Cardinal, Owens & Minor Antitrust Suit Trimmed
• CMS Finalizes Controversial New Inpatient Admission Criteria
• Medicare Cuts $227M From Hospitals For High Readmissions
• OT Claims In FLSA Suits Must Be Specific, 2nd Circ. Says
• McDermott Ducks Health IT Client's IP Theft Suit
• Ambulance Co. Rural/Metro Files For Ch. 11 Lifeline
• Morgan Lewis Lands Ex-Coventry Health Care GC In Philly
• Hospitals Ask DC Circ. To Bury HHS Medicare Rule
• US Can't Reap Fees From Clinic's $1.6M FCA Settlement
• Maine Tells 1st Circ. Noncitizens' Medicaid Cut Is Legal
• Stay Tuned For More Developments In GINA
• CMS Cuts Pay To Hospitals With High Readmission Rates
• NJ Defends Civil Unions After High Court's DOMA Ruling
• Bankrupt NY Hospital Group Gets Nod For $54M Sale
• Pharmacy Co-Op Asks High Court To Mull Medicare Refusals
• House Passes Bill To Keep IRS From Implementing ACA
• ARC Healthcare Tops $1B Mark With $128M Senior Home Buy
• CVS Strikes $20M Settlement To End SEC Probe
• House Votes To Give Congress Power Over Costly Regulations
• Facing Activist, HMA Heeds Strine's 'Proxy Put' Ruling
• Kilpatrick Townsend Grows In Atlanta With Arnall Golden Pros
• Blue Shield Unit's 'Hidden Deductibles' Inflate Costs, Suit Says
• Bipartisan Duo Seeks To Widen Medicare Fraud Controls
• What HRSA's New Rule Means For Hospitals And Pharma Cos.
• HMA, Tenet Face Whistleblower Suit Over Alleged Kickbacks
• Becton Dickinson Pays $22M To Settle Syringe Antitrust Suits
• EEOC Files 2 Bias Suits For Workers Fired Over Cancer
• J&J Fined In Landmark Chinese Antitrust Loss
• Walgreen Shareholders Sue Over $80M DEA Payout
• FCA Bill Would Shield Hospitals In Billing Error Cases
• GOP Lawmakers Lash CMS Chief Over ACA 'Data Hub'
• CMS To Vet All ACA Insurance Applications, Official Says
• NJ High Court Won't Hear Blue Cross Physician Class Action
• Sen. Slams Walgreen After Employee Trumpets 340B Profits
• Texas Cracks Down On Medicaid Fraud — More To Come
• Benefit Co. Catamaran Inks $410M Rival Buy As Earnings Soar
• Health Advocates Push Pa. House Panel For More Medicaid
• Rainmaker Q&A: Crowe & Dunlevy's Karen Rieger