The American Hospital Association and other hospital and healthcare groups participated in a policy briefing in Washington, D.C., to educated congressional staffers on legislation that would extend several inactive or soon-to-expire Medicare provisions impacting rural patients and providers, according to…
Legal & Regulatory Issues
Yakima (Wash.) Valley Memorial Hospital has lost its appeal to the U.S. District Court of Eastern Washington to perform elective angioplasties, according to a Yakima Herald-Republic report.
The Missouri Supreme Court has struck down a law placing a $350,000 cap on malpractice awards, saying it violates patients' rights to jury trials, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.
Phoenix-based Banner Health has reached a $255,000 settlement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, resolving allegations that it denied an employee's requests for accommodation and fired him because of his disability.
San Francisco-based McKesson has agreed to a $151 million settlement divided among 29 states and the District of Columbia to resolve allegations that it inflated prescription prices, according to a Bloomberg report.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott is leading an effort to appeal a federal court ruling that blocked the Firearm Owner's Privacy Act, colloquially known as the "docs vs. Glocks" law, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.
Chicago-based debt collector Accretive Health has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement with the office of Minnesota State Attorney General Lori Swanson and has been barred from contracting with Minnesota hospitals for at least two years.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has rejected the National Labor Relations Board's request to alter a recent federal court decision invalidating a December 2011 NLRB ruling expediting union elections, according to an AHA News Now report.
The fight against healthcare fraud is a top priority for the government today, as evidenced by harsher federal sentencing guidelines for healthcare fraud, an increase in the number of Medicare Fraud Strike Force teams and federal fraud prevention programs such…
It's been more than a month since the Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, yet Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the judges who dissented in the 5-4 vote to uphold it, continues to criticize the ruling,…