Two chambers of commerce, the Chamber of Commerce the United States of America and the Tyler (TX) Area Chamber of Commerce, filed a lawsuit on August 10, 2021, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas...more
Bergen County Superior Court Judge Robert Contillo issued a recent decision deemed favorable by Horizon Healthcare Services Inc. (“Horizon”) in a case involving three healthcare providers (“Providers”) that challenged...more
Last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the merger between Penn State Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System, the two largest hospitals in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, may not move forward at this time....more
More than many other industries, the American health care system has a highly fragmented set of interlocking business relationships. Services are provided in an integrated network by a host of service providers who operate...more
9/17/2015
/ Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Healthcare ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hospitals ,
Independent Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Nursing Homes ,
Staffing Agencies ,
Terms and Conditions ,
Third-Party Service Provider ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Union Elections ,
Wage and Hour
Updated requirements for hospitals to maintain their tax-exempt status under Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code are nothing new. They were enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. However, at the end of...more
On August 3, 2015, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York ruled that the United States’ and state of New York’s complaints in intervention can move forward against a group of hospitals, under the federal False...more
8/6/2015
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False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Hospitals ,
Intervenors ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Mistake ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Overpayment ,
Overpayment Recovery Time Limits ,
Qui Tam ,
Relators ,
Software
As hospitals look to forge alignments with medical staff physicians and many “independent” physicians consider whether they want to become employees of a hospital or health system or remain independent operators of their own...more
In early October, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule that included, among other provisions, a proposed gainsharing regulation (“Proposed Rule”),...more
With little fanfare just before the Labor Day weekend, CMS announced a program in which it would enter into administrative agreements with eligible providers in exchange for the providers’ withdrawal of pending appeals...more