Two rival hospital districts in North San Diego County are locked in a legal battle over territory, according to a report by the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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The Supreme Court of Georgia has struck down the state's legislated limit on noneconomic damages for professional liability cases, according to a release from the Georgia Hospital Association.
As President Obama signed the sweeping healthcare reform overhaul bill into law, some states are planning to challenge it in court. Already, several states have moved in that direction, arguing the bill's individual mandate oversteps the federal government's constitutional powers…
The Port St. Lucie (Fla.) City Council voted to move forward an ordinance that would make it more difficult for pain management clinics that dispense narcotics to open within the city limits, according to a report from TCPalm.com.
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Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (N.J.) has agreed to a $6.35 million settlement to resolve allegations that it inflated charges to Medicare patients to obtain higher reimbursements from the federal program.
The Senate version of the health reform bill, passed by the House on Sunday and expected to be signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday, will halt new construction and expansion of physician-owned hospitals, according to a statement by…
The House of Representatives on Sunday passed on a vote of 219-212 the same version of the health reform bill the U.S. Senate passed in Dec. 2009, opening the way for full enactment of the bill, according to the Wall…
The House of Representatives' newly released draft reconciliation bill makes two key changes in the proposed ban on physician-owned hospitals in Congress' health reform legislation, according to a report by Physician Hospitals in America.
In a case that has been watched closely by tax-exempt hospitals around the country, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled the state was justified in stripping Provena Covenant Medical Center of its state property tax exemption because it did not prove…