Washington is not known, especially these days, as a place of consensus. However, there is at least one area of bipartisan, bicameral agreement: for better or worse, the health care system is rapidly changing.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
The Lakewood, Ohio City Council recently hired Cleveland law firm Thompson Hine to represent Lakewood Hospital in negotiations with the Cleveland Clinic regarding the clinic's decision to close the hospital and open a family health center and emergency department in…
Hospital operators in Connecticut are urging legislators to reject a bill that would require hospitals to pay state property taxes, claiming the cost of these taxes would likely result in cutting costs elsewhere, such as through staff and service reductions,…
A labor union is suing financially struggling Doctors' Hospital of Michigan in Pontiac, seeking a temporary restraining order against the hospital to block about 40 layoffs, according to The Oakland Press.
From an AIDS foundation being hit with a $20 million kickback lawsuit to two major manufacturers of ultraviolet disinfection robots battling in court over advertisements, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements.
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Richmond, Va.-based Health Diagnostics Laboratory and Alameda, Calif.-based Singulex have agreed to pay the federal government a combined $48.5 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act, according to the Department of Justice.
Kansas has become the first state to ban a common second-term abortion procedure, according to The New York Times.
Seventeen law professors along with the International Center for Law and Economics have filed a friend-of-the-court brief requesting the full panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rehear the antitrust case against Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health…
Massachusetts' Health Policy Commission — an independent state agency responsible for reducing healthcare cost growth while improving care quality — would get more power under legislation unveiled by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy and House Majority Leader Ron Mariano (D-Quincy),…
CMS has fined health insurer Aetna $1 million over errors in its pharmacy network listings, according to a Hartford Courant report.