Here's the table of contents from today's Health Lawyers Weekly, reprinted here with the kind permission of the AHLA:Top Stories
- Bush Signs Executive Order Requiring Federal Agencies To Increase Price And Quality Transparency
President George W. Bush signed August 22 an executive order directing federal agencies that administer or sponsor a healthcare program to increase price and quality transparency by January 1, 2007. Full Story - OIG Publishes Guidelines For Evaluating State FCA Cases
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a notice in the August 21 Federal Register (71 Fed. Reg. 48552) announcing the publication of OIG’s guidelines for evaluating state False Claims Act cases. Full Story
Articles & Analyses
- Implementing A Trusted Health Information Exchange, By Zoë Baird, President Marke Foundation
- 2005-2006 Teaching Hospitals And Academic Medical Centers Year In Review, Compiled by Health Lawyers' Teaching Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers Practice Group
Current Topics
- Antitrust
FTC Says IPAs Engaged In Anticompetitive Conduct - Criminal Law
Fourth Circuit Says Plaintiff Bound To Appeal Waiver In Plea Agreement - Employment and Labor
1. Eighth Circuit Finds Terminated Physician Did Not Qualify As Whistleblower
2. U.S. Court In Tennessee Says Termination Of Tenured Faculty Members Violated Due Process - EMTALA
U.S. Court In Alabama Allows Pregnant Woman’s EMTALA Claim To Go Forward - ERISA
Fifth Circuit Holds ERISA Does Not Preempt Louisiana Assignment Statute - Food and Drug Law
1. U.S. Court In California Says Federal Law Preempts Pharmaceutical Failure-To-Warn Claims
2. FDA Proposes Comprehensive Electronic Drug Registration List
3. FDA Approves Plan B For OTC Use - Fraud and Abuse
1. DOJ Announces $20 Million Settlement Of FCA Charges
2. Seventh Circuit Finds Qui Tam Relator Must Show Specific Claim That Was False
3. North Carolina To Repay Federal Government $151.5 Million Of Medicaid Reimbursements
4. Update - Hospitals and Health Systems
USC Seeks To Part Ways With Tenet Subsidiary - Medicaid
NASMD, APHSA Urges DHHS Not To Implement Proposed Medicaid Regulatory Changes - Medicare
1. CMS Posts Medicare Payment Data On Common ASC Procedures
2. Eighth Circuit Says Hospital’s Classroom Costs Not Entitled To Pass-Through Treatment
3. Study Finds Variation In Part D Plans’ Drug Coverage - News in Brief
CMS Solicits Proposals For New Risk Reduction Demonstration
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