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Health - January, 2014

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• High Court Urged To Review Medical Whistleblower Protection
• LabMD Loses Bid To Grill FTC's Atty In Data Security Row
• Pa. Fracking Gag-Rule Case Puts Trade Secrets At Risk
• NLRB Says Hospital's Ban On Unfair Criticism Is DOA
• US Blasts Fla. Hospital's Challenge To Standing In FCA Suit
• Rotech Judge Slashes Baker & McKenzie Fee Request
• Debate Over ACA Contraception Mandate Continues
• Some Docs Still Hesitant About E-Records, Data Show
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: McAndrews' Sharon Hwang
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Faegre Baker's Kathy Noecker
• 'Reasonable Certainty' Remains Uncertain
• FTC Hits Fla. Firm With Agency's 1st Suit Over ACA Fraud
• Waxman's Retirement Creates DC Policymaking Void
• Medicare Bans New Suppliers In High-Fraud Areas
• Fla. High Court Won't Let Hospital Block Records Request
• ACOs Saved $380M In Boost For Health Reform Law
• Costco Illegally Employs Optometrists In Stores, Suit Says
• 3 More Charged In $190M ATC Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Norton Rose's Yvonne Puig
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Orrick's Laurie Strauch Weiss
• Waxman, Longtime Leader In The House, To Retire
• Millennium Shakes Revived FCA Billing Scam Suit
• Workplace Culture: The Real Pathway To Change
• Cybersecurity Bill Needed To Combat Attacks, Senate Told
• Pa. Bill Would Let State Intervene In UPMC-Highmark Row
• 20 States Urge High Court To Ax ACA Contraception Mandate
• Medical Supply Co. Escapes FCA Suit Over Needless Orders
• Give Fed. Circ. Fresh Look At Fee Awards, Justices Told
• IRS Must Revisit ACA Fraud Search Routines, Watchdog Says
• Calif. AG Sues Kaiser Over Slow Data-Breach Response
• Deals Rumor Mill: Sprint, AT&T, Lenovo
• HIPAA Settlement May Herald New HHS Offensive
• Ky. Hospital Pays $16.5M To End False Billing Claims
• Horizon Blue Cross Customers Sue Over Data Breach
• And Now A Word From The Panel: The Year In Review
• Ex-Allscripts Audit Chief Accused Of Insider Trading
• Integrated Health Defense Can't Save St. Luke's Deal
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Goodwin Procter's Joanne Gray
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Taft's Barbara Duncombe
• Andrews Kurth Snags Pair Of IP Aces From Dorsey & Whitney
• EmblemHealth, NY AG Settle Coverage Terminations
• Obama Asserts Executive Power In State Of The Union Speech
• House Votes To Bar Federal Abortion Funding
• Notre Dame Seeks Birth Control Waiver After SCOTUS Ruling
• LabMD Winding Down Operations, Blaming FTC Suit
• Pressure Mounts To Scrap ACA's 30-Hour Full-Time Rule
• No Credit For Halfhearted FCA Cooperation, Enforcers Say
• Bills To Push Medicaid Expansion Again In Fla. Legislature
• Bankrupt MedLab To Sell Units To LabCorp For $10.5M
• Lawmakers Press High Court On Contraception Mandate
• GAO Denies Rotech's Protest Over $42M In VA Contracts
• What Health Providers Can Learn From Recent OIG Report
• Health Group Of The Year: Sheppard Mullin
• Kaiser Says It Can Pay Benefits To Workers On Union Leave
• Pa. Lawmakers Urged To Move On Medical Marijuana
• Colo. High Court To Decide Medical Marijuana Firing Suit
• Post & Schell Launches Enviro Group With 2 Greenberg Attys
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Young Conaway's Pauline Morgan
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Phelps Dunbar's Nan Alessandra
• Hospice Exec Charged In Alleged Medicare Scam
• NJ Senate Panel Presses Blue Cross Execs Over Data Breach
• Health Group Of The Year: McDermott Will & Emery
• Surgical Staffing Co. Says Florida Blue Failed To Pay Claims
• FTC Win Casts Cloud Over Hospital-Doc Deals
• GOP Introduces Affordable Care Act Replacement Bill
• Bracewell & Giuliani Adds Ex-Andrews Kurth Trial Pro
• High Court Won't Take On $17M Mayer Brown Malpractice Suit
• Fla. Supreme Court OKs Medical Marijuana Ballot Initiative
• World Bank Puts Up $2B For Myanmar Energy, Health Reforms
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Crowell's Angela Styles
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: WilmerHale's Susan Murley
• DC Circ. OKs Medicare Adjustments For Rural Hospitals
• High Court Rebuffs Ex-HealthSouth CEO's Bribery Appeal
• Hospital Ordered To End Pregnant Woman's Life Support
• 7th Circ. Urged To Revive Wellpoint Premium Hike Suit
• Clinics Ink $2M FCA Deal In Reimported Drugs Case
• Texas Rolls Out New Rules For ACA Insurance Navigators
• Judicial Watch Sues For HealthCare.gov Designer Records
• High Court Hands Nuns Temporary Win In Birth Control Fight
• Health Group Of The Year: Akin Gump
• Pa. Court Strikes Cert. In Doctors' Insurance Claim Suit
• Calif. Court OKs Benefit Change For Retired San Diego Cops
• FTC Wins Antitrust Challenge To St. Luke's Buyout
• ACA Health Insurance Enrollment Reaches 3 Million
• Mo.'s ACA Navigator Licensing Law Put On Hold
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Hughes Hubbard's Beinecke
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Willkie's Margery Neale
• McKesson Salvages Celesio Buy With Reworked Deals
• Agency Defends Medicaid Contract For South Fla. Counties
• IRS Clarifies Penalties For Affordable Care Act Abstainers
• NJ Wins Medicaid Spousal Benefits Dispute
• Bulk Of Hospital's Patient-Snatching Case Tossed In Miss.
• Medicare Billing Records Give FCA Whistleblowers New Ammo
• FTC Pushes Justices To Reject NC State Action Case
• Norton Rose Fulbright Draws In 2 Shook Hardy Health Pros
• Va. AG Won't Defend State's Gay-Marriage Ban In Fed. Suit
• States Face $1.5B Tax Penalty Over Medicaid Opt-Out: Report
• Alexander Dubose Adds Norton Rose Fulbright Appellate Atty
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Fluet Huber's Jennifer Huber
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Goldberg Segalla's Berdzik
• Why Chicago Hospital Merger Case Is Important
• Proposed FDA Rule Could Bring Failure-To-Warn Liability
• Claims And Classes In Medical Monitoring Cases
• Calif.'s Comeback Depends On Careful Spending, Gov. Says
• Suit Over Delay Of ACA Employer Mandate Heads To 11th Circ.
• FTC Blesses $7.6B Hospital Group Tie-Up With Sell-Off
• Nev. Gov. Blasts Appeal Of Same-Sex Marriage Ban
• Ex-Policyholders Sue Humana Over Ignored Cancellations
• Liability Policy Covers Defamation Claims, 10th Circ. Finds
• Cigna Coverage Row Shouldn't Be Arbitrated, 3rd Circ. Told
• EEOC Sues Genesis For Refusing To Hire Deaf Worker
• Holland & Knight Adds Ex-Manatt IP Litigator In Calif.
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Anderson Kill's Pamela Hans
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Cozen O'Connor's Mayes
• NLRB Blasts HealthBridge-Run Centers' Ch. 11 Plan
• 3rd Circ. Shuts Down Retaliation Suit Against Hospital
• Justices Hear Arguments Over Mandatory Union Fees
• Conflicts Doom Baker & McKenzie Fee Bid, Rotech Says
• NY Managed Care Organizations Flex Muscle Under ACA
• Fla. Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional, Suit Says
• Cuomo Asks Feds To Help Fund Ailing NYC Hospitals
• $3M Settlement With AMN Should Be Approved, Ex-Nurses Say
• Ted Kennedy Jr. Joins Epstein Becker Green's Health Group
• GOP Sens. Blast HHS For Touting 'Free' Medicare Benefits
• Dentons Adds Gardere Wynne Sewell Atty To Dallas Office
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Alston & Bird's Nicki Carlsen
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Shackelford's Nicole LeBoeuf
• Elliott Ups Celesio Stake After Failed $8.5B McKesson Buy
• Western Medical Case Adds Harris Rule To Retaliation Fights
• Physical Therapy Cos. Pay $30M To Settle FCA Kickback Suit
• FTC Denies LabMD's Bid To Dismiss Data Security Suit
• FTC Continues To Push Privacy Breach Enforcement
• Medicare Spending Tied To Prior Insurance, GAO Says
• ATC Recruiter Cops Plea In $190M Medicare Fraud
• Home Caregivers Say Forced Union Fees Buck Precedent
• Surgeon General Links Smoking To Diabetes, Liver Cancer
• Altaris Strikes $130M Deal To Buy Endo's HealthTronics
• Insurer Liable For Hospital's $11M Antitrust Deal: 6th Circ.
• Marketing Pro Leaves Publicis To Pursue Private Equity
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Jackson Kelly's Ellen Cappellanti
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Cole Schotz's Randi Kochman
• 3 Cost-Cutting Resolutions Law Firms Can't Afford To Break
• Rule 23 And Federal Class Actions Post-Genesis Healthcare
• Zuckerman Spaeder Nabs Pomerantz Health Pros In NY
• Senate Sends $1T Federal Spending Bill To Obama's Desk
• ACA Security Risks Weren't Ignored, Congress Hears
• Tax Credit Ruling Puts ACA Opponents On The Ropes
• Texas Dems Urge DOJ To Fight State's ACA Navigator Rules
• Pa. Lawmakers Introduce Medical Marijuana Legislation
• Pa. Charity Patients Can Be Nixed From DSH, 3rd Circ. Told
• Gov't Must Produce Medicare Docs In Aegis FCA Suit
• NC Doctors Say Medicaid Software Bugs Cost Them Millions
• Calif. Court Reverses Nurse's Win In Wrongful Firing Suit
• ACA Exchange Transparency Bill Passes House
• ACA Payment System Still Not Complete, CMS Says
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Fox Rothschild's Resnick
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Roetzel's Erika Haupt
• Clinical Labs Under ACA: Challenge And Opportunity
• 9th Circ. Throws Out Medical Marijuana Dispensary Suits
• Doc To Challenge $1.3M Sanction Before Texas High Court
• Public Defender Plotted Against Shrink, 11th Circ. Hears
• High Court Questions Mass. Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Law
• ACA Tax Breaks For Opt-Out States Upheld, Swiftly Appealed
• Cigna Funds Eating-Disorder Claims To Settle NY Probe
• Former Va. Solicitor General Returns To McGuireWoods
• House Passes $1T Federal Spending Bill
• Lawmakers Propose Changes To Medicare For Chronically Ill
• Canada Privacy Watchdog Faults Google For Health Ads
• EIB Considers €150M Loan for Austrian Hospital Upgrades
• HHS Again Extends Coverage For Pre-Existing Conditions
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Holland & Hart's Liz Sharrer
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Anderson Kill's Rhonda Orin
• Health Care Related Prosecutions Will Rise In 2014
• Hospital M&A Volume Dipped 8% In Q4 2013
• Medicare Eyes Disclosure Of Doctors' Billing Records
• Allergists Accused Of Shutting Out Competition
• $1T Bill Ups Tech, Finance Budgets, Cuts ACA Funds
• Big Pharma's Pricing Power Imperiled By Part D Overhaul
• DC Archdiocese Takes Birth Control Mandate To High Court
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Debevoise's Mary Beth Hogan
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Sanford's Katherine Kimpel
• FTC, LabMD Trade Discovery Jabs In Data Security Brawl
• McKesson's $8.5B Bid for Celesio Falls Flat
• Pfizer Faces Whistleblower Suit Over Lipitor Marketing
• High Court Snubs Challenge To Calif. Medicaid Cuts
• 30% Of ACA Sign-Ups Are Young, White House Says
• NJ Court Orders Report On Medical Marijuana Program
• Provider's Suit Over ACA Employer Mandate Gets Chucked
• Former HMA Exec Named in FCA Kickbacks Suit
• NY Hospital Says Residents Failed To File For Tax Refunds
• Cahill Group Puts Up $250M For Midwest Health Care Co.
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Otterbourg's Melanie Cyganowski
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Epstein Becker's Joan Disler
• Not Business As Usual For NY Court Of Appeals
• Ariz. Bid To Revive Abortion Ban Rebuffed By High Court
• Bankrupt Landauer Balks At Rival's Motion To Litigate NY Suit
• McDermott Nabs O'Melveny Real Estate Pro
• Legal Pot Leaves Product Liability Attys Dazed, Confused
• Science Question Hangs Over High Court Birth Control Case
• Ex-Chicago Official Gets 10.5 Years In Hospital Bribery Case
• Medicare Contractors Lag On Some Quality Gauges, OIG Says
• Medical Groups Defend Jurisdiction In ACA Fight At DC Circ.
• Treasury To Exempt Volunteer Firefighters From ACA Mandate
• Former HealthEssentials Execs Pay $1M To End FCA Claims
• Mintz Levin Nabs Health Care FCA Pro From Patton Boggs
• White House To Replace CGI On ACA Site Tech Contract
• Sen. Blumenthal Slams United Healthcare Bid To Boot Docs
• 8th Circ. Affirms Surgeon's 5-Year Tax Fraud Sentence
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Wilson Elser's Publicover
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Fowler White's Rhea Law
• ACA Security Bill Clears House With Democratic Help
• Detroit Retirees Sue City Over Slashed Health Benefits
• 4th Circ. Leaves 'Excessive' FCA Fines Up In The Air
• Settlement Tax Breaks Will Continue Despite JPMorgan Deal
• 9th Circ. Vacates Injunction Over Calif. Medicaid Cuts
• NJ Senate OKs Bill To Redesignate Medical Marijuana
• Shielding Of Clinic In NY Gossip Case Spurs Privacy Worries
• White House Rips ACA Legislation But Avoids Veto Threats
• DOJ Civil, Criminal Cases Brought Over $8B In FY 2013
• OIG Knocks Medicare Over Erratic Coverage Policies
• Ill. Nursing Home Challenges $9M FCA Verdict Before 7th Circ.
• JPMorgan Exploring Sale To Exit Prepaid Card Biz
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Duane Morris' Sharon Caffrey
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Novak Druce's Katy Basile
• Fla. Hospital Gets Kickback Claims Booted From FCA Suit
• McKesson Woos Hedge Fund With Heftier $8.4B Celesio Bid
• State Farm Class Action Over Cut Payments Goes Federal
• Issa Threatens Criminal Probe Over Sebelius Testimony
• Rite Aid Can't Charge For Health Records, Pa. Justices Told
• BioScrip Agrees To Pay $15M In FCA Kickback Suit
• E-Records To Draw Health Fraud Scrutiny After OIG Report
• Senators Seek More Clarity On Fed. Agency Settlements
• HMA Paid Kickbacks For Doctor Referrals, FCA Suit Says
• The 2013 Tightening Of The NY False Claims Act
• $7.6B Health Management Takeover Approved By Shareholders
• Pa. Hospital Loses Medicaid Reimbursement Challenge
• Sen. Carper Joins Volunteer Firefighter ACA Mandate Fight
• GOP Rep. Wants ACA Replaced With Tax Deduction
• CORRECTED: Prime Healthcare Hit With $50M Medicare Overbilling Suit
• How To Maintain Humanity In An EMR World
• Deals Rumor Mill: McKesson, New York Times, Shell
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Arnstein's Kathleen Gilligan
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Faegre Baker's Maureen Maly
• Trauma Care Oversight Bill Advanced By NJ Senate Panel
• Four Plead Guilty To $20M Medicare Fraud In Miami
• NJ Senate OKs Bill To Require Coverage Of Pain Meds
• Hospital Sues Staffing Cos., Jailed Tech In Hep C Outbreak
• American Realty Pays $71M For Texas Senior Housing Facility
• Medicaid Secondary Payer Changes Are Self-Defeating
• Prime Healthcare Gets Stay On Bankruptcy Court's Dismissal
• Sutter Says Doc Jumped The Gun With Whistleblower Suit
• Hiscock & Barclay Picks Up Elmira, NY's Davidson & O'Mara
• New Fraud Oversight Unveiled For Medicare Part D
• House Bill Would Mandate Quick ACA Data Breach Alerts
• Philly Denied Rehearing In Blue Cross Tax Credit Row
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Quarles & Brady's Sarah Coyne
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Fox Rothschild's Brett Axelrod
• Colo. Outlines Marijuana Sales Tax Requirements
• Goodwin Guides TA To 1st Deal Of 2014 With Towne Park Buy
• Chief Justice Roberts Won't Halt ACA Implementation
• Bankrupt Landauer Gets Nod for $22M Sale To Quadrant
• 6 Lessons For Lawyers From Feds' 2013 FCA Haul
• GOP Sen. Sues Over ACA Exemptions For Congress
• Fla. Social Worker Can't Block Release Of Medical Records
• Health Care Spending Drops As Share Of GDP, CMS Says
• NY Workers' Comp Law Bars Hospital's Suit, Contractor Says
• NJ Nursing Homes May Be Liable Under Consumer Fraud Act
• 11th Doc Pleads Guilty In NJ Lab Referral Kickback Scheme
• 'Datalink' Includes Wireless Tech, Hill-Rom Tells Fed. Circ.
• Deals Rumor Mill: Time Warner, Liberty, KKR
• IRS Issues Final Rules On Medical Loss Computations
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Ideal Legal Group's Evie Jeang
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Akin Gump's Christine LaFollette
• 6th Circ. Blocks Health Benefit Cuts For Flint Retirees
• Mandatory Public Union Fees Are Constitutional, SG Says
• Certain Medicaid Waivers Excludable From Income, IRS Says
• HTA Pays $141M For Medical Office Portfolio In Fla.
• Hospital Inks $4M FCA Deal Over Possible Doctor Kickbacks
• HMA Gives Docs Kickbacks For Needless Tests, Suit Says
• DOD Wants Bids For $1B Contract To Sustain Health Records
• The Medicare Payment Scheme Has Shifted
• ACA Birth Control Rule Respects Religion, High Court Hears
• NJ Comptroller Files $2.7M Fraud Claim Against 3 Hospitals
• Accretive Health Settles FTC's Data Security Charges
• IRS Urged To Clarify ACA Mandate On Volunteer Firefighters
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Choate's Brenda Jarrell
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Bond Schoeneck's Ginny Robbins
• TPG-Backed IMS Seeking $100M In Return To Public Markets
• A Primer For Surgery Center Investors And Lenders
• Anderson Kill Slapped With $10M Legal Malpractice Suit
• UPMC Audit Challenge Imperils Bias Safeguards, DC Circ. Told
• FTC's Brill Steps Away From LabMD Data Security Suit
• DC Circ. Lifts Contraception Mandate During Church's Appeal
• Hospital Loses Challenge To NJ Health Care Subsidy
• IRS Aims To Take Heat Off Hospitals Over 501(R) Shortfalls
• When File Type Matters In E-Discovery
• Roche Ducks FCA Suit Over Nonexistent Lab Tests
• Indian Harbor Sued Over Medicare Whistleblower Coverage
• Medco Beats False Claims Suit Alleging Kickbacks
• Wyle Wins Protest Over Lost $1.76B NASA Contract
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Ulmer & Berne's Patty Shlonsky
• Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Fish's Cynthia Walden
• The Year Ahead In Pro Bono
• 10 New Year's Resolutions To Boost Firm Gender Diversity
• Law360 Names Law Firms Of The Year
• Trending Insurance Issues — Past Is Prologue
• Health Care Cases To Watch In 2014
• Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
• Health Care Regulation And Legislation To Watch In 2014