Legal & Regulatory Issues

The Department of Health & Human Services has rejected North Dakota’s waiver to be exempted from the medical loss ratio provision under the healthcare reform law, according to news report by The Hill. Under the provision, healthcare insurers are required…

  Members of the Arizona Hospital and Health Care Association have proposed a self-imposed fee that would temporarily cover the state's one-third match on Medicaid enrollees in order to avoid the state's other proposed Medicaid cuts, according to a Daily…

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on a lower California court's ruling to block a 10 percent Medicaid cut, according to an AHA News Now report.

A bipartisan group of senators, also known as the Gang of Six, has proposed a deficit reduction plan that includes at least $500 billion in cuts to federal programs including Medicare and Medicaid. The Gang of Six bipartisan plan, which…

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a disability complaint against Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, alleging the Johns Hopkins Health System-operated provider failed to accommodate a former employee's disability, according to an EEOC news release.

After a federal audit, the Office of Inspector General has recommended Louisiana pay back $13.6 million that may have been paid to noncompliant physicians as part of a post-Hurricane Katrina grant. CMS gave the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals…

Brandon Schirg, JD, and Brent Hill, JD, partners at Waller Lansden in Nashville, Tenn., specializing in healthcare law, give eight legal considerations for establishing or expanding a hospital radiation oncology center or department. 1. Structuring. Mr. Schirg says it’s important…

A recent American Hospital Association survey on hospital drug shortages mirrored the results of an American Society of Anesthesiologists drug shortage survey conducted in April 2011, according to an ASA release.

The Connecticut Medical Examining Board has fined a Glastonbury physician for administering an anesthetic to the wrong surgical site, according to a Hartford Courant report.

An oncologist from Lakewood, Wash., was charged with 20 counts of healthcare fraud and related charges for his participated in an alleged scheme to overbill healthcare programs by $1.7 million dollars. Read the full story on Becker’s ASC Review.