Health Archive » April, 2017

Health - April, 2017

328 articles

• In Congress: Stopgap Funding, Jay Clayton, North Korea
• Warning Would Have Kept Woman From J&J Talc, Jury Told
• 11th Circ. Backs Georgia 'Pill Mill' Doc's 20-Year Sentence
• Quest To Pay $6M To End Blood Test FCA Suit
• Anthem Ruling May Upend Companies' Merger Case Strategy
• Hobby Lobby Moots Co.'s Contraception Rule Case: 7th Circ.
• Jury Finds Fla. Eye Doctor Guilty Of Overbilling Medicare
• Senators Revive Bill To Speed Up Generic Drug Approval
• Nurses Qualified To Testify On Injury Causation, Court Says
• Texas Justices Won't Revive Andrews Kurth Malpractice Suit
• 2 UAE Men Seek To Halt Cerner's Collection Of $62M Award
• Hospital Laundry Co.'s Ch. 11 Loan, Bidding Procedures OK'd
• Taxation With Representation: Skadden, Wachtell, Allen
• Bostwick's $6.5M Asset Sale To Poplar Approved In Del.
• Health Hires: 8 Firms Add Health, Life Sciences Experts
• Nurse Can't Show Transfer Was Demotion, Texas Court Says
• CMS Final Rule Does Not Answer Insurers' Biggest Questions
• The Mediator's Proposal As A Tool For Litigants
• Anthem Loses Appeal In $54B Cigna Merger Case
• HealthNet, IU Health Pay $18M To End Whistleblower Suit
• Group Sues For Trump Transition's Climate Questionnaires
• GAO Says NIH Wrongly Skipped SBA Review Of IT Deal Bidder
• Investors Want Venture Funds Kept Out Of Theranos Suit
• Wash. Judge Keeps Most Claims Against Nooksack Officials
• Christie Targets Horizon's Salaries In Health Reform Bill
• Nurses Seek Class Cert. In Dallas Hospital Chain FLSA Suit
• ACA Watch: Health Groups Balk At Revamped Repeal Bill
• FDA Nominee Clears Senate Panel Despite Dems' Criticism
• Expectations After The Trump Administration's First 100 Days
• Abuse Of Process Claims Rooted In 'Bad Blood,' Pa. Atty Says
• Calif. Senate Committee OKs Single-Payer Health Care Plan
• KBL Merger Files $100M IPO To Pursue Health Care Buy
• Boston Hospital Pays $10M To End Research Fraud Probe
• South Korea Fines Novartis $48M Over Bribes To Doctors
• Books Demand For Universal Health In Wake Of Fraud Probe
• Class Cert. Bid On Ambulance Co. Rest Break Claims Revived
• Feds Denied Say In Medicare FCA Suit After $348M Award
• Title VII Takeaways From Hively V. Ivy Tech
• Fraudster In $172M Scheme Seeks A Light Sentence
• Trump Set To Sign Order To Overhaul VA Employee Discipline
• Pharmacies' Price-Fixing Actions Too Similar, Judge Says
• Ex-NJ Doc Can't Shake Penalties For Misconduct With Patients
• Pueblo Sues Fed. Gov't, Won't Return Grant Money
• Wilson Elser Adds 2 Litigators To Miami Office
• Government Funding Deal 'Down To Final Details'
• Duke Can't Drop Whistleblower's False Research Data Suit
• Shkreli Lobs Password-Cracking Allegation At Retrophin
• House Conservatives Back Revamped ACA Repeal
• TransCare Execs Must Turn Over Patriarch Partners Docs
• Gov't Nonintervention In Agape And Future FCA Cases
• EEOC Sues Massage Co. For Firing Worker Over Ebola Fears
• Fed. Circ. Tells Veterans Court It Can Hear Class Claims
• The 9-Year Winning Streak Of Virginia 'Rocket Docket'
• Ill. House Narrowly Passes Abortion Expansion Bill
• Medtox Fax Recipients Certified In Revived TCPA Suit
• Claims Adjuster Can't Dodge Suit Over Settling $16M Verdict
• 7th Circ. Denies Medical School's Bid For $6.7M Tax Refund
• FCC Seeks Feedback On Promoting Connected Health
• Oxygen Equipment Provider To Pay $11.4M To End FCA Suit
• Murder Trial For Pharmacist In Meningitis Outbreak Delayed
• Humana Can't Ditch Gender Bias Claims For Firing Trans Man
• GAO Backs Some Costs, Denies Others On $25B CMS Protest
• Air Methods Investors Seek Appraisial After $2.5B Deal
• Pa. AG Takes Patient Care Suit To State Supreme Court
• Kimberly-Clark Gown Suit Belongs In Calif., Rival Says
• Texas Brothers Get Prison In $6.3M Ambulance Scam
• Tritec-UBS JV Finalizes $81M Recap Of NY Medical Campus
• Let's Talk About Half-Hearted Innovation
• J&J's Talc Caused Woman's Cancer, Harvard MD Tells Jury
• Trans VA Worker Calls For Judge's Recusal In Bias Suit
• Anthem, Express Scripts To Cut Ties Amid Pricing Fight
• Minn. Adult Care Co. Can't Claim Immunity In Burn Suit
• Pharmacy Says Aetna Owes $533K For Hemophilia Drugs
• Texas Says Xerox Can't Deflect $1B Medicaid Fraud Suit
• Chiropractor, Family Get Lengthy Sentences In $29M Fraud
• Protecting Communications From PR Privilege Issues
• NorthWest Bids For Generation REIT With 10% Premium
• Fed. Circ. Revives Trauma Mannequin Patent Suit
• NYC-Area Spiro Harrison Opens 2nd NJ Office
• Judge Says Clinics In Meningitis Outbreak Can Blame FDA
• Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Over WellCare CEO Conviction
• Ky. Doctor Gets 1 Year For Improper Opioid Prescriptions
• Wireless Health Co. Strikes $2.5M HIPAA Deal
• Deals Rumor Mill: Hypermarcas, Whole Foods, Abraaj Group
• Cancer Center Co. Can't Dodge Breach Claims, Court Told
• Counsel To Counsel: Insights From Law Firm GCs
• In Congress: A Major Fiscal Deadline
• Skadden, Wachtell Guide $24B Medical Supply Co. Deal
• 2 More Charged In Female Genital Mutilation Case
• Ex-Univ. Of Texas Doc's Retaliation Suit Nixed By Court
• No Doubt Talc Can Enter Body, Jury Told In J&J Cancer Trial
• Discovery Ordered In 'Brainspotting' TM Contempt Row
• Pediatric Medical Practice Settles HHS' HIPAA Charges
• More Details Out In Del. Bid To Stop Theranos Share Swap
• No Jail For Recruiter In $70M Medicare Fraud
• Title IX Can't Protect Gender Identity, 6th Circ. Hears
• Government Funding Showdown Has Attorneys On Edge
• 7th Circ. Skeptical Of Insurance ERISA Suit, Class Cert.
• UC Alleges $12M Clinical Trial Scam Targeting Students
• McDonnell Ruling 'Premature' In Menendez Case, Judge Says
• Couple Must Repay $27M In EB-5 Cancer Center Fraud Scam
• Gray Matters: The Attorney-Client Team
• Anthem Seeks Injunction To Keep Cigna In $54B Merger
• Judge OKs $25M TCPA Deal Over Health Service Faxes
• Doctors, Med Biz Accused Of Running $40M Kickback Scheme
• ACA Watch: Trump Says Repeal Bill Has 'Good Chance'
• Facebook Users Fight To Stop Health Sites' Data Sharing
• Cherokees Say Wal-Mart, Walgreens Let Opioids Loose
• Walgreens To Pay $9.9M To Settle Medi-Cal Billing Suits
• ER Operator Adeptus Files Ch. 11, Seeks PE Takeover
• O'Melveny Gets Ex-Adviser To Calif. AG, Obama Admin.
• DHS Official Says Cyberthreat Info-Sharing Efforts Growing
• Dental Association Pays $2M To Settle EEOC Retaliation Row
• Why Roe V. Wade Will Not Be Overturned
• A Closer Look At 'Preemptive' Federal Contract Terms
• A Circuit Split At Intersection Of Title VII And Title IX
• Counsel To Counsel: Mama Said There'll Be Days Like This
• Litigation Finance, Big Data And The Limits Of AI
• What Current Legal Developments Mean For Biosimilars
• La. Nursing Board Asks Supreme Court To Skip Antitrust Suit
• Tenn. Senate Panel OKs Bill Banning Abortions After 20 Weeks
• Fla. Court Retroactively Applies Allstate PIP Decision
• Pfizer Hit With DOJ Subpoena Over Saline Shortages
• Fed. Claims Court Tosses Blue Cross' Bid For ACA Money
• Indirect Share Purchasers Cleared To Sue Theranos
• Patients Say Telehealth Provider Wrongly Shared Their Data
• Calif. Court Finds Plaintiff 'Vexatious' In GE Med Mal Suit
• CVS Health Urges Toss Of TM Dilution Claim In Logo Fight
• BioScrip Investors Lose Suit After Targeting Different Board
• Pa. Justices To Mull Hospital's Duties In Hepatitis Spread
• Fresenius, Dialysis Patients Spar Over Documents In MDL
• Calif. Consumer Hits 2 Retail Cos. With Recorded Call Suits
• Plaintiffs Bar Perspective: Robbins Geller's Tor Gronborg
• Counsel To Counsel: A Law Firm GC's Data Protection Duties
• Fla. Hospital Nabs Quick Win In Whistleblower Suit
• Texas Ambulance Co. Beats FCA Suit For Good
• NC Scores NCAA Events After Bathroom Law Repeal
• Ariz. Patient Can't Sue Doctor Under Medical Marijuana Law
• FDA Warning Wire: Faulty St. Jude Devices Used In Patients
• Czech Republic Presses DC Court To Nix $325M Award Suit
• Ariz. AG Gets $4.65M Settlement Over Theranos Blood Tests
• $100M NJ Lab Referral Probe Yields 30th Doctor Conviction
• Health Insurer Has Right To Recoup Payments: High Court
• Hospice Cos. To Pay $12.2M To Settle Kickback Claims
• Health Care CEO Fights New Trial Bid In Merger Dispute
• Counsel To Counsel: Evaluating Positional Conflicts
• Ex-Privacy Head Sues Christus Health For Retaliatory Firing
• Biz Optimism Is Waning With Trump Inaction On Tax Reform
• Theranos To Stay Out Of Lab Biz In Deal With CMS
• Nurse's Hospital Retaliation Suit Nixed By Ohio Appeals Court
• Cigna's $2.7M ERISA Deal Over Depression Cure Nears OK
• Miss. Sues Drug Cos. Over Medicaid Reimbursements
• Home Health Clinicians Seek Cert. In FLSA Suit
• NJ Tax Court Upholds $5M In Rite Aid Property Assessments
• Toshiba Medical Settles MRI Patent Suit With NeuroGrafix
• High Court Turns Away W.Va.'s ACA Enforcement Appeal
• Religion Test For Title VII Cases Won't Reach 2nd Circ. Yet
• Counsel To Counsel: 5 Challenges For A Law Firm GC
• ADA Insights From 2nd Circ. 'Needle-Phobia' Decision
• Health Republic's Curious Liquidation: Part 11
• Tracing The Path To Health Care Investigation Settlements
• WellCare Execs To Pay $26M Over Medicaid Fraud
• Ambulance Cos. Want Out Of 'Bandwagon' Kickbacks Suit
• Texas Hospital Can't Duck Suit Over Ultrasound Tech
• NECC Owner Says FDA Fraud Is 'Legal Impossibility'
• Minimal Notice Enough To Trigger Claim, Mich. Justices Say
• Riverside Collects $418M For Latest Investment Vehicle
• FDA Wants Answers From Abbott On St. Jude Device Security
• As Fla. Secures $1.5B In LIP Funding, Flexibility Still Key
• CMS Seeks 'National Conversation' On Red Tape
• Sens. Push To Expand Rural Doctor Visa Waivers
• Cushman Workers Seek Cert. In COBRA Challenge
• Ill. Gov. Plans To Veto Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Bill
• Tenn. Abortion Laws Shot Down After 2016 High Court Ruling
• Allcare Principals Fight Bid To Pay $5M Fee From IP Loss
• Drug Co. Hires Ex-SDNY Brass To Fight $181M Forfeiture
• Baxter Hit With DOJ Subpoena Over Saline Shortages
• Fla. Case Highlights FCA Risk For Nursing Homes
• Cigna's Regulatory Talk Was More Than Puffery, Investors Say
• Health Republic's Curious Liquidation: Part 10
• Lawyers In Flow: Get Out Of Your Head And Into Your Case
• Iowa House Approves Tweaked Bill To Cap Med Mal Damages
• Detroit Doctor Charged With Female Genital Mutilation
• CMS Claim Dispute Trips Bostwick's $5.1M Ch. 11 DIP Loan
• Fed. Circ. Affirms Nix Of Medical Records IP Under Alice
• HHS Inks Deal With Provider Over Risk Analysis Lapses
• Fla. High Court Says Privilege Shields Atty-Doctor Referrals
• Home Health Co. Owners Plead Not Guilty To $24M Fraud
• Health Republic's Curious Liquidation: Part 9
• Failed ACA Insurer Sues Feds Over Loan Clawback Efforts
• Judge To Reconsider Whether Wells Fargo Waived Preclusion
• Feds Finalize ACA Market Stabilizing Rule
• Anti-Abortion Group Asks Full 9th Circ. To Undo Video Ban
• VA Asks For Input On Cloud File Management System
• Trump Nixes HHS Rule Protecting Abortion Clinic Funding
• Posner Skeptical Of $300M Hospital Monopoly Suit
• AGs Weave Themselves Into Patchwork Of Digital-Health Regs
• CareCentrix Can't Shift Blame For Data Breach, Court Told
• HCA Subsidized Doctors' Leases, 11th Circ. Told
• 11th Circ. Denies Doc Stay To Appeal Libel Suit To Justices
• Big Biz Presses Trump To Continue ACA Subsidies
• Ore. University Immune To FCA As Arm Of State, Judge Says
• $454M Gown Verdict Says Jury Can Be Swayed Without Harm
• Calif. Proton Resolves Objections To Ch. 11 Auction Plans
• Trump Aversion To Border Tax Idea May Be A Language Issue
• Lasser Hochman Sued Over Tactics In Health Center Row
• Nooksack Members Facing Disenrollment Join Contract Suit
• Nurses Sue Over Medicare Pay Policy On Pain Management
• Judge Won't Trim Student Wage Class Action Before Trial
• Sexual Orientation And Title VII: Where Do We Go From Here?
• Hospitals Say Management Co. Caused $6.5M In Lost Profits
• Nixing Alaska Law Would Boost Health Competition, US Says
• Air Methods Investors Look To Stall $2.5B Sale Deadline
• Medical Device E-Commerce Co. Faces TCPA Suit Over Faxes
• Days After A Name Change, SV Health Clinches $400M Fund
• A Law Firm Ranking Model By 'Fake News & Distorted Reports'
• Plaintiffs Bar Perspective: Cohen Milstein's Betsy Miller
• White House Proposes Executive Branch Overhaul
• Feds Fight Fla. Doctor's Reconsideration Bid In Fraud Case
• Geico Goes After $1.2M 'Unnecessary' Massage Claims
• 'Bitterly Angry' Doc Needs Psych Eval For License: Court
• Health Care REIT Hid Medicare Fraud Suits, Investor Says
• J&J Hid Talc Cancer Risk For Profit, Jury Told
• Guilty Drug Return Co. Should Forfeit $181M, Feds Say
• Call Recipients Oppose Stay In Hospital TCPA Suit
• Zenefits Pays $1.2M Fine For Unlicensed NY Insurance Sales
• MDL Judge Berates Stericycle Attys' 'Inattentiveness'
• Pharmacist Seeks New Trial On Racketeering Conviction
• 'Egregious' HHS Actions Deserve Enhanced Costs
• REIT Care Capital Properties To Pay $400M For 6 Hospitals
• DC Swindling Medicaid Patients' Estates, Families Claim
• Mass. Files Complaint In Escobar FCA Case
• Bellwethers Chosen In 3M Warming Device Infection MDL
• Fla. Eye Doctor Seeks Mistrial In Overbilling Suit
• FDA Must Revisit Menu Labeling Rule, Retailers Say
• Class Status Sought In CVS Robocall Dispute
• Addus Wants To Limit Scope Of FCA Claims
• Teladoc, Texas Board Want More Time To Solve Antitrust Suit
• Two IP Attorneys Join Armstrong Teasdale In Kansas City
• NJ Hospital's Tight Lips Sink Coverage For Malpractice Suit
• Siemens Wins Costs For VA's Slow Response On Bid Dispute
• J&J Unit Asks Judge To Toss Whistleblower's Retaliation Case
• Trump Nominates Tennessee State Sen. As Army Secretary
• Morgan Stanley Venture Selling China Mall For $588M
• Jury Hits Kimberly-Clark, Halyard With $454M Fraud Verdict
• Ex-NY Pol, Doctors Charged In Medicare 'Pill Mill' Scheme
• Headaches Loom With Halt Of Expedited H-1B Processing
• Theranos Investors Can't Delay Class Action-Ending Deal
• BCBS Fires Back At Reconsideration Bid In Antitrust MDL
• Bankrupt Calif. Proton Says Sale Docs Will Disclose Dispute
• ACA Markets Likely To Stabilize In 2017, S&P Global Says
• 4th Circ. Won't Hear Grimm Bathroom Ban Suit By Graduation
• Bellwether Trial Dates Set In Meningitis MDL
• TransCare Trustee Moves To Investigate Patriarch Partners
• Jailed Medicare Fraudster Didn't Steal $15.6M, 7th Circ. Hears
• Philly Atty Says Adversaries Overstepped On Sanctions Bid
• Trans Puerto Ricans Sue To Change Sex On Birth Certificates
• Health Hires: Vt. SG To Stris, BCBS In-House To Kilpatrick
• HHS Has Its Eye On Medicaid Personal Care Service
• Crowdfunding For Legal Cases: 5 Trends Reshaping Justice
• McDermott Nabs Litigation Partner In Dallas From DLA Piper
• Partial Stopgap Budget Passes Through In Ill. House
• Doctors Hit Financial, Medical Practice Cos. With Fraud Suit
• Mass. AG Pact Bars Ad 'Geofences' At Abortion Clinics
• Anthem Likens Data Breach To Election Hack In Venue Fight
• ACA Watch: GOP Claims 'Real Progress' On Repeal Bid
• EEOC Fights To Keep Evidence In 'Onionhead' Lawsuit
• Blue Cross Unit Not Covered In Antitrust MDL, Insurer Says
• Doctors Lose 11th Circ. Appeal To Join BCBS Antitrust Suit
• Quest Tries To Sink Data Breach Class Action Over Standing
• Vt. Groups Can't Wage Doc Assisted Suicide Suit, Judge Says
• Compliance Front And Center As HHS Keeps Up HIPAA Heat
• ABA Needs A New Model Legal Ethics Rule
• What Does Lateral Partner Success Look Like?
• ACA Repeal And Replace: Down, But Not Out
• Providers, Others Ordered To Pay US $43M In FCA Suit
• Kimberly-Clark Gown Buyers Didn't Pay A Premium, Jury Told
• Gorsuch, Roe And 'Superprecedent'
• JPML Won't Undo Transfer Of 3 Stericycle Suits To Ill. MDL
• 5 Takeaways As Trump's FDA Pick Hits Capitol Hill
• House OKs Keeping State Control Over Stop-Loss Insurance
• Providers Call Blue Cross Dismissal Bid A Delay Tactic
• Hospital Tells 2nd Circ. Insurer Must Cover Sex Abuse Defense
• Sanofi To Pay $19.8M To Settle VA's Overcharge Claims
• Alere Presses Del. Court For Access To Abbott Atty Docs
• Venable Gets Digital Health, Privacy Pro From Cooley
• Wash. Judge Won't Sanction Nooksack Members' Attys
• Needlephobic Pharmacist Asks 2nd Circ. To Rehear ADA Case
• Planned Parenthood Wins Block Of Mo. Abortion Regulations
• LaSalle Closes $98M Minneapolis Office Buy
• CMS' New Position On Quota Share Reinsurance Is Refreshing
• Deals Rumor Mill: Rockwell Collins, Stada, Blackstone
• Are Lateral Recruitment Opportunities Shaping Your Strategy?
• Anthem, Library Worker Settle Trans Surgery Insurance Suit
• 2 Plead Not Guilty In Pharmaceutical Insider Trading Scheme
• Audit Questions $193M In Mass. Medicaid Payments
• Hospital Laundry Servicer Gets Nod To Tap $65M Ch. 11 Loan
• EEOC Says Hospital Can't Dodge Religious Retaliation Suit
• Millennium To Brief Court On Creditor 3rd-Party Releases
• Express Scripts Concealing Basic Pricing Info, Anthem Says
• FDA Warning Wire: Agency Skeptical Of Cannabis Oil Claims
• 2nd Circ. Upholds Sanctions Against NY Atty In FCA Suit
• Lateral Partner Hiring: Time To Look In The Mirror
• Optimis Says Ex-Directors Have Their Own Ax To Grind
• Pa. AG Office's Antitrust Leader Details Enforcement Record
• DOI Pummels 'Illegitimate' Nooksack Group For Contract Suit
• Pa. Justices Mull Reach Of Medical Peer Review Privacy Law
• Spokeo Frees Health Co. From Suit Over Patient Receipt
• Kirkland Helps Shore Capital Clinch $190M Fund
• Kimberly-Clark Gowns Should Have Been Recalled, Jury Told
• 6 More Sentenced In Fla. For $172M Insurance Fraud
• Fla. Senate Panel Expands Medical Marijuana Bill
• Lighting Co. To Pay $100K In EEOC Wellness Program Deal
• IRS Beats Medical Marijuana Co.'s Bid To Quash Summonses
• Allergan Must Face FCA Suit Over Drug Samples, Rx Pads
• FCA Decision Tracker: Continued Interpretations Of Escobar
• BCBS Gets Heart Device Co.'s $66.5M Antitrust Suit Tossed
• Conn. High Court Affirms Win For Anthem In Stock Case
• Nexsen Must Face $117M Malpractice Suit In SC State Court
• Blue Cross Gets Hospital Contracts Antitrust Suit Trimmed
• NY Goes After MedImmune In Kickback Scheme Suit
• Hospital Asks Texas Justices To Revive $10M Win Over Rival
• HHS Can't Duck UnitedHealthcare Overpayment Suit
• Bostwick Approved For $6.3M Stalking Horse Bid From Poplar
• Chiropractor Shakes Suit Over Waiting Room Dog Bite
• LabMD 1st Amendment Claims Against FTC Survive Dismissal
• Orange County Cities Immune From EMS Antitrust Lawsuit
• Untold Stories: Trump's Budget Would Silence Legal Services