Yesterday, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems settled two lawsuits that protested Vanguard's pending merger with Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp.
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Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Health has already spent $15 million fighting a 2009 whistleblower suit, and that amount is only expected to grow as the system faces a March trial date, according to a Daytona Beach News-Journal report.
Reps. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) have said they will introduce separate bills that would prohibit members of Congress from receiving federal subsidies to cover premiums for health insurance purchased through the new exchanges.
A new law in Texas will require all hospitals with an emergency department to either have a sexual assault nurse examiner on staff or train clinical staff in basic forensic evidence collection.
In an attempt to reduce physician self-referral patterns, a federal bill would narrow the definition for in-office ancillary services that are exempt from the Stark Law.
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Conservative opponents of a new law expanding Medicaid in Arizona say they will have enough signatures to require a referendum by the Sept. 11 deadline, according to an Arizona Daily Star report.
Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital is taking legal action to continue chemotherapy treatments for an Amish girl with leukemia, according to an Akron Beacon Journal report.
MedCentral Health System in Mansfield, Ohio, is facing a lawsuit from a former employee who claims he was fired for exposing a potential kickback scheme, according to a Mansfield News Journal report.
House Energy and Commerce Committee members have asked Treasury Secretary Jack Lew for more information about the Obama administration's decision to delay the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's employer mandate.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, device companies will report on gifts and compensation individual physicians receive on a public website to launch September 2014 under the Sunshine Act, which went into effect at the beginning of…