Boston-based Steward Health Care and New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health System are involved in a bitter battle over market share, and their dispute landed in federal court this week, according to the Boston Globe.
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has joined the Federal Trade Commission in seeking to block the planned merger between Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care and Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore University HealthSystem — a deal that would create the largest health…
As 2015 draws to a close, hospitals are facing a significant number of changes, including new developments in value-based payment and a changing regulatory environment. Three broad categories of transaction trends emerged in 2015. These trends were likely influenced by…
After five-years of negotiations and more than two years of litigation, Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare and University of Louisville have ended a dispute over Kosair Children's Hospital.
A cardiologist in Westlake, Ohio, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for performing unnecessary catheterizations, tests and stent insertions, and causing unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgeries as part of a scheme to overbill Medicare and private insurers by…
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As the Dec. 31 negotiation deadline approaches in the contract dispute between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and Tuscon, Ariz.-based Carondelet Health Network, county officials advocated for a quick resolution at a board meeting Wednesday.
From 32 hospitals agreeing to settle False Claims Act allegations to a pharmacy owner being sentenced to prison for his role in a $21 million Medicare fraud scheme, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
Thirty-two hospitals — including hospitals from systems such as Phoenix-based Banner Health, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems — have agreed to pay the federal government more than $28 million to settle False Claims Act allegations, according…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said the House plans to vote on legislation right away in January that will likely spark a veto battle with the White House, according to The Hill.
The Federal Trade Commission has authorized action to block the planned merger of Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care and Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore University HealthSystem — a deal that would create the largest health system in Illinois.