Legal & Regulatory Issues

The Colorado State House granted preliminary approval to a bill that would give hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars of federal matching funds to help up to 200,000 uninsured Coloradoans, according to a report by the Denver Business Journal.

A bill that proposed a crack down on Medicaid fraud failed, by a narrow margin, to pass in the Maryland State Senate, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun.

A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust case against Zimmer and Striker, according to a report in The AM Law Litigation Daily.

A Massachusetts federal judge dropped a whistle-blower lawsuit that alleged that some of the nation's top spine surgeons took kickbacks for promoting a Medtronic product, according to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.

Dante Nicholson, the former senior vice president of City of Angels Medical Center in Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to paying illegal kickbacks to recruiters who referred homeless patients to the hospital for unnecessary health services, according to a report in…

Here are the top ten states with the least amount of dollars spent for medical malpractice payments in 2007, along with total dollars spent, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.

Here are the top ten states in dollars spent for medical malpractice payments in 2007, along with total dollars spent, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.

Here are the top ten states with the highest number of paid medical malpractice claims for 2007, with the number of claims paid, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.

Here are the top ten states with the lowest number of paid medical malpractice claims for 2007, with the number of claims paid, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.

On Jan. 26, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, in Houston, settled a lawsuit that alleged that the hospital attempted to stop competition by discouraging health insurers from doing business with the physician-owned Town & Country Hospital, which closed in 2007. According…