Heartland Spine & Specialty Hospital has reached a settlement with a group of insurers that were the defendant's in the Overland Park, Kan., physician-owned hospital's landmark antitrust suit (Heartland Surgical Specialty Hosp. LLC v. Midwest Division Inc., No. 05-2164). No…
Legal & Regulatory Issues
Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital became yet another hospital to agree to a multi-million dollar fine to settle allegations by CMS that it billed Medicare for inflated charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut announced on Friday. The case is…
Healthcare regulatory diligence can be critical where a real estate investment trust (REIT) or other buyer acquires a portfolio of properties such as a medical office building from a hospital or other provider. Leases between a hospital and tenants can…
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS"), on September 5th, published a final rule implementing Phase III of Part II of the Stark Act (the "Stark III Regulations"). CMS, in addition to revising certain elements of the Stark Act,…