Legal & Regulatory Issues

A union trust fund representing grocery store employees has filed suit against Sacramento-based Sutter Health, claiming the system has violated antitrust laws and driven hospital costs for at least a decade, according to a San Francisco Business Times report.

This month, President Obama signed a piece of legislation that delayed a menu of healthcare policies. The law put off Medicare's sustainable growth rate cuts to physicians, and it also gave hospitals extra time for the two-midnight rule. But the…

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling that overturned a $1.2 billion judgment against Johnson & Johnson over its marketing of the antipsychotic prescription drug Risperdal.

The whistle-blower's attorneys have filed a motion asking the court to order Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Hospital Medical Center to pay $7.3 million in attorneys' fees and costs in a recent False Claims Act case.

Last week's ICD-10 delay is a positive development for nonprofit hospitals, according to a Fitch Ratings report.

At the suggestion of the Vermont Attorney General's Office, several state senators will introduce false claims legislation targeting fraud in the state's healthcare system.

Nine qui tam False Claims Act suits accusing Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates and several of its subsidiaries of paying illegal kickbacks to physicians and encouraging medically unnecessary tests have been transferred to a Washington, D.C., federal court, according to…

The House has passed a bill that would change the PPACA definition of full-time employees, increasing the threshold from 30 hours per week to 40 hours.

The National Labor Relations Board has found Cass City, Mich.-based Hills and Dales General Hospital's work rules banning negativity violate federal labor law.

Pennsylvania House Bill 804 would raise the standard of evidence from simple negligence to gross negligence in medical liability actions involving emergency care.