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Capital Infusion - May 2013: Dealmaker’s Corner

by Adam Connatser, Jon Finger, Rani Hauth Guerra, J. Atwood Jeter, David McLean | Patton Boggs LLP on 5/16/2013

In this issue’s installment of “Dealmaker’s Corner,” Jon Finger, a partner in our private equity group, had the opportunity to visit with Kyle Bradford, Managing Director with American Capital, Ltd., concerning the...more

Capital Infusion - May 2013: Digging Deeper: A Guide to Health Care Regulatory Due Diligence in Private Equity Deals

by Adam Connatser, Jon Finger, Rani Hauth Guerra, J. Atwood Jeter, Amy Kaufman, David McLean | Patton Boggs LLP on 5/15/2013

Introduction - Investing in the health care industry can be riskier and more complicated than investing in many other industries. Health care providers and suppliers, as well as those companies that interact with them,...more

Capital Infusion - May 2013: Deal Spotlight: Patton Boggs Advises on Innovative Health Care Transaction

by Adam Connatser, Jon Finger, Rani Hauth Guerra, J. Atwood Jeter, David McLean | Patton Boggs LLP on 5/13/2013

Patton Boggs recently advised Satori Capital, a Dallas-based private equity firm, on its acquisition of Longhorn Health Solutions, Inc. Longhorn is headquartered in Austin, Texas and is a leading direct-to-home provider of...more

Highlights Of HUD’s New Section 232 LEAN Closing Documents, April 9, 2013

by Christine Waldmann Carmody, Blair L. Schiff | Pepper Hamilton LLP on 4/10/2013

On September 7, 2012, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) published in the Federal Register new regulations for the Section 232 Healthcare Facility Insurance Program, which became effective as of October 9, 2012. In...more

D.C. District Court Again Rules That Bad Debt at a Collection Agency is Allowable

by Leslie Demaree Goldsmith | Ober|Kaler on 4/4/2013

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently ruled, again, that a Medicare contractor is not permitted to disallow Medicare bad debts solely on the ground that the bad debt is still at an outside...more

Final Sunshine Act Arrives: Now the Hard Part

by Michele L. Buenafe, Jonathan Havens, Kathleen McDermott, Rebecca Osowski, Albert Shay | Morgan Lewis on 3/8/2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final regulations on the U.S. Sunshine Act on February 8, 2013. Transparency Reports and Reporting of Physician Ownership or Investment Interests, 78 Fed. Reg....more

CMS Publishes Final Sunshine Act Rule Creating New Regulatory Landscape for Physician-Manufacturer Interactions

by Tom Crane, Brian P. Dunphy, Kimberly J. Gold, Karen S. Lovitch, Kate Stewart | Mintz Levin - Health Law on 3/7/2013

Originally published in the Health Care Fraud Report, 17 HFRA 219, on 03/06/2013. The final rule (the ‘‘Final Rule’’) implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (‘‘Sunshine Act’’), published in the Federal...more

Legal Alert: 2013 Outlook for Insurance Regulation

by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP on 1/31/2013

We end the first month of the year with a report on major insurance topics that we will be watching in 2013. Many of these developments can be traced to discrete events or market or political forces. This year, those...more

Infobytes - A Weekly In-depth review of news & developments in the financial services industry - January 18, 2013

by BuckleySandler LLP on 1/22/2013

In This Issue: - FEDERAL ISSUES - STATE ISSUES - COURTS - FIRM NEWS - FIRM PUBLICATIONS - MORTGAGES - BANKING - CONSUMER FINANCE - E-COMMERCE - PRIVACY/DATA SECURITY - PAYMENTS -...more

Summary Of HUD’s New Draft LEAN Loan Documents, December 21, 2012

by Christine Waldmann Carmody, Blair L. Schiff | Pepper Hamilton LLP on 1/5/2013

On September 7, 2012, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) published new regulations for the Section 232 Healthcare Facility Insurance Program in the Federal Register. FHA had previously proposed new regulations and loan...more

Summary Of HUD’s LEAN 232 Program E-Mail Blast: Office Of Residential Care Facilities (ORCF), December 19, 2012

by Christine Waldmann Carmody, Blair L. Schiff | Pepper Hamilton LLP on 1/5/2013

In an effort to summarize the highlights of the LEAN E-mail Blasts that we receive, and rarely have time to review in a timely fashion, we at Pepper are providing this quick synopsis of the latest LEAN update. Our aim is to...more

Treasury Issues Binding Guidance On Medical Device Excise Tax

by Rosemary Becchi, George Schutzer | Patton Boggs LLP on 12/12/2012

The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published in the December 7, 2012 Federal Register final regulations and released other interim guidance on the implementation of the new excise tax on...more

Criminal Antitrust Update - October 2012

by Patton Boggs LLP on 10/12/2012

In this issue: - INDUSTRY SCORECARD - E-books: Following its settlement with the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division (the “Division”) regarding price-fixing allegations related to electronic book sales,...more

Venture Investment in Digital Health Effectively Doubles in H1 2012

by Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group on 7/30/2012

Venture investment in healthcare convergence technologies soared in the first half of 2012. According to a recent report from Burrill & Co, digital health, into which they group healthcare IT, mobile health and wireless...more

The European Court affirms that public safety comes first: financial considerations cannot justify the placing on the market of...

by White & Case LLP on 7/17/2012

Abstract: On 29 March 2012, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) issued a ruling in a case brought by the European Commission against Poland declaring unlawful the supply of unlicensed medicines on financial grounds as a...more

Points & Authorities - Winter 2012

by Buchalter Nemer on 3/10/2012

In This Issue: - Banker Beware: Bank Practices under Increased Scrutiny as Dodd-Frank Implementation Begins - The Lender-Borrower Tangle: Understanding California and Arizona Anti-Deficiency Legislation - New...more

Florida Legislature Pre-Session Report on Healthcare and Casino Gambling

by Akerman Senterfitt on 12/21/2011

Budget Impact on Healthcare Though there was hope that Florida would be facing a better year in regards to the state budget, it is now apparent that there will be a $1.7 billion dollar shortfall that the upcoming legislative...more

Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) and RUGs Audits: The Good, the Bad, and the Inevitable

by Jackson Walker on 11/10/2010

In This Presentation: All About RACs: What is a RAC? Will the RACs affect me? Why RACs? What does a RAC do? What are the providers’ options? What can providers do to get ready? What are Providers’ Options: Pay by...more

Medicare Overpayment Audits Update

by Miller & Martin PLLC on 9/23/2010

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is stepping up its efforts to recover alleged overpayments charged by providers for care rendered to Medicare patients. CMS contracts with private firms to conduct...more

eDiscovery: The Light at the End of the Tunnel - And It's Not a Train

by Christine Burgess on 8/3/2010

eDiscovery firms are now sought by IT for cloud storage, management, and preservation capabilities....more

Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - May 10, 2010

by Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 5/10/2010

In This Issue: *BROKER DEALER ..FINRA to Assume Responsibility for Regulating NYSE Euronext Markets *LITIGATION ..Second Circuit Affirms No Duty to Disclose Merger Negotiations ..Third Party May Not Compel...more

Privacy and Security Alert: Tick-Tock: It’s February 1 - The Countdown to Compliance with the Massachusetts Data Security...

by Mintz Levin - Corporate & Securities on 2/2/2010

As we’ve been discussing since January 2008, entities that own, license, access or process the personal information of Massachusetts residents are coming down to the wire for implementing the data security standards in 201...more

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