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McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: June 3 – 9, 2025

Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: May 27 – June 2, 2025

Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: May 20 – 26, 2025

Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: May 13 – 19, 2025

Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

U.S. Supreme Court Denies DSH Hospitals’ Attempts to Seek Higher Medicare Payments

On April 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding the formula the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) utilized to calculate Medicare hospitals’ disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment...more

Epstein Becker & Green

A Common Denominator Governs the Medicare Fraction - SCOTUS Today

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In its 2022 decision in Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, for Valley Hospital Medical Center, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the phrase “entitled to [Medicare Part A] benefits” applied to “all those qualifying for the...more

Hanson Bridgett

Peer Review by Licentiates Only: Beware Health Care Service Plans!

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On February 19, 2025, the California Court of Appeal published a decision, Lin v. Board of Directors of PrimeCare Medical Network, Inc., 108 Cal.App.5th 1163, emphasizing California Business and Professions Code’s requirement...more

Holland & Knight LLP

"Wheels Fall Off" FTC's Latest Hospital Merger Challenge

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District Court Ruling Shows that the "Failing Firm" Defense Isn't a Total Failure - In FTC v. Community Health Systems Inc. & Novant Health Inc., No. 5:24-cv-0028 (W.D.N.C.), Judge Kenneth D. Bell of the U.S. District...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

2021 AHLA Year in Review: Antitrust

I. ANTITRUST (Updated January 2022) - A. M&A - 1. Provider Merger Enforcement - a. Hackensack Meridian Health/Englewood Healthcare Foundation - • In December 2020, the FTC sued to block Hackensack Meridian...more

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Breaking News on the CMS Vaccination Rule: Less Than 24 Hours After Being Shelved in 10 States, the Rule Is Sidelined Nationwide

In a November 30, 2021, order, a federal judge sitting in Louisiana entered a nationwide preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) interim final rule entitled...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

CMS’ COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate: What Health Care Providers Need to Know

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Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published their much-anticipated rules mandating COVID-19 vaccinations. ...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Healthcare Law Update: October 2021

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Kathryn Isted In Harbor Healthcare System, L.P. v. United States, 5 F.4th 593 (5th Cir. 2021), the court of appeals ruled that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to exercise its equitable jurisdiction over a...more

Fisher Phillips

Reconsidering Religious Accommodations In Light Of The Pandemic

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With all of the uncertainty facing the healthcare community in light of the current pandemic, the ability of hospitals and other healthcare facilities to be flexible when managing employees is of the utmost importance. To...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 6. Privacy Briefs: June 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 6 (June 2020): A divided Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a patient’s claim that a hospital is vicariously liable for the actions of a medical assistant who accessed the patient’s...more

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: D.C. Circuit Holds Employer That Failed to Implement Its Own Safety Program Violated the General...

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently issued a decision that should be of concern to every employer and safety professional. The case involved an employer that had ambitious but...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Dome Report - 2020 West Virginia Legislature Commences, Issue 2

As you know, the 2020 Regular Session of the West Virginia Legislature commenced on January 8. As of this writing, the House has introduced 903 bills, while the Senate has introduced 467. We will be reporting on and tracking...more

King & Spalding

Eleventh Circuit Issues Decision Underscoring the Stark Law’s Favorable Treatment of Indirect Financial Relationships

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In an opinion issued last Wednesday, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s entry of final judgment in favor of a multi-state hospital system by dismissing the qui tam relator’s claims under the federal False...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Seventh Circuit Reaffirms Test for Employee Status

On May 8, 2019, the Seventh Circuit reaffirmed its test for determining employee status under federal anti-discrimination laws, holding that a physician lacked standing to bring Title VII claims against the hospital at which...more

Baker Donelson

Peer Review Not Protected: U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Disturb Florida Decision Limiting the Patient Safety and Quality...

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A multi-year discovery dispute regarding the adverse medical incident reports of a Jacksonville, Florida hospital concluded on October 2, 2017 when the United States Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in...more

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Hospital and Homeowner Property Tax Exemptions Examined by Illinois Courts

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Illinois Courts are currently examining several different aspects of property tax exemptions, all of which impact the revenues of school districts and other units of local government. Most notably, the Illinois Supreme Court...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Florida Supreme Court: Federal PSQIA Does Not Pre-empt State's Constitution

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In Charles v. Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida, Inc., published on Jan. 31, 2017, the Florida Supreme Court held that the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (PSQIA) is not and was never intended to be a...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

California Health Care Employees Cannot Waive Entitlement to Second Meal Period When Working In Excess of 12 Hours

Narrowly construing the California Labor Code provisions on meal periods, the California Court of Appeal struck down a provision in the Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders that allows health care employees working...more

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California Court Decision on Meal Breaks May Cause Health Care Industry To Go To Code Blue

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Executive Summary: A new California Court of Appeal decision has invalidated a 22-year-old healthcare industry exception that had given the industry some flexibility with respect to how it provided its employees working...more

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