The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") plans to reorganize its Office of Regulatory Affairs ("ORA") to respond to the rapid globalization of...

On September 14, 2012 the UK Office of Fair Trading ("OFT") published a decision confirming its earlier provisional decision not to refer the UK dentistry...

On September 19, 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") announced a settlement with HCA Inc. and one of its hospitals over alleged violations of the...

Federal contractors with the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") may soon have to provide additional information about their subcontractors' wages and...

Review the materials from Fulbright's third labor and employment breakfast seminar of 2012. This program focused on the most important recent...

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...

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...

Hydraulic fracturing involves the injection of highly pressurized fluids and proppants into shale or other non-porous hydrocarbon formations in order to increase...

In an anticipated decision regarding class actions in bankruptcy proceedings, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the "Fifth Circuit"), in...

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...

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

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 ("...

In emergency regulations posted to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health website, the Department of Public Health (the "Department") has apparently...

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...