On September 13, 2012, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that Medicare audit contractors are immune to a medical supply company's claims to recover overpayments...

The Third Circuit's opinion in In re K-Dur Antitrust Litigation, sharpened the divide between the circuits on the appropriate antitrust treatment of Pay-for-Del...

CMS is working to fix an inaccurate and excessive Medicaid payment rate for New York state-operated intermediate care facilities ("ICFs"), according to an...

This article addresses aberrant physician behavior and the remedies that a hospital may employ to address that behavior. Specifically, this article addresses the types of...

On September 19, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 6118, which if enacted into law, would provide the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("...

The European Commission is drafting new rules that will for the first time make details of clinical research behind medical implants, and their safety record since coming...

In November 2009, Lanny Breuer, assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division, publicly announced that the DOJ intended to focus...

On September 11, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court ruling finding that providers may not appeal contractors' decisions to reopen...

On September 12, 2012, the House Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee conducted a hearing to investigate the implementation of health insurance exchanges. The...

Last week, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health ("CDRH") at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") made available for public comment...

Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6), a corporation, partnership, association, or governmental agency is subject to the deposition process. If approached...

On September 4, 2012, Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Jeremy Hunt, former Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, as the Secretary of State for...

The Institute of Medicine ("IOM") issued a report yesterday entitled "Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America,&quo...

On September 4, 2012, the Government Accountability Office ("GAO") issued an opinion regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"...

Effective August 30, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") issued an amendment to an interim final rule stating that undocumented immigrant...