Two subsidiaries of the international drug manufacturer Sanofi have agreed to a $109 million settlement to resolve charges they violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by giving physicians free knee injection drugs to induce prescriptions.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
A judge has ruled that Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System can proceed with plans to acquire a local physician group despite an antitrust lawsuit filed by two nearby competing hospitals, according to an Idaho Statesman report.
The biopharmaceutical company Amgen, which is based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor for misbranding its anemia drug and agreed to pay $762 million in fines and penalties, according to a Washington Post report.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is preparing for the 27 percent cut to Medicare physician payments that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2013, if Congress does not act to preserve the sustainable growth rate, according the American…
HHS' Office of Inspector General has issued an advisory opinion in response to a hospital's proposal to offer community physicians and practices free access to an electronic interface, through which they could transmit orders for certain services from the hospital.
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The CEO of River Edge Hospital in St. Peter, Minn., has requested the state attorney general investigate Mayo Clinic Health Systems in the area, claiming Mayo physicians and staff are purposely misinforming patients to steer them away from local community…
Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals has agreed to an $8 million settlement to resolve allegations it improperly billed Medicare for overnight care when patients had been treated and discharged within the same day, according to a Charlotte News &…
Medicare paid an average of $919 for beneficiaries’ back braces between 2010 and 2011 — four times greater than the average $191 cost to suppliers, according to a report from the HHS Office of the Inspector General. The overpayments during…
Last week, the Ohio Supreme Court upheld a state law that bars people from filing medical liability cases more than four years after the date of the alleged action.
A judge has ordered the physician suing Fishersville, Va.-based Augusta Health to take his case through private arbitration, according to a News Leader report.