A group of 340B stakeholders brought a lawsuit on September 11, 2018, against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over the delay in implementing the final rule for drug pricing transparency published in the...more
On July 27, 2018, the United States District Court for the District of Maine dismissed a claim that York Hospital, a Maine Hospital with a dedicated emergency room, violated EMTALA after a patient suffered a stroke and was...more
On May 23, 2018, a jury in Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston, Massachusetts, found Brigham and Women’s Hospital guilty of retaliation and awarded $28 million to a nurse....more
On November 20, 2017, CMS announced proposed updates to the coverage policy for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs). The proposed changes would be the first major update to ICD coverage in over a decade. Over the...more
On November 15, 2017, a bipartisan bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives aimed at preventing CMS from reducing reimbursement by nearly 30 percent for Medicare Part B drugs purchased by certain hospitals...more
On May 9, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling denying hospitals from including New Jersey Charity Care Program (NJCCP) patients in the hospitals’ disproportionate...more
CMS announced solicitation for applications for participation in the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program (Demonstration). In this request for applications, CMS is seeking information from interested hospitals...more
On March 15, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania held in United States ex rel. Emanuele v. Medicor Assocs., 2017 BL 80113, W.D. Pa., No. 10-cv-245, 3/15/17, that a hospital that created...more
On December 19, 2016, the HHS OIG issued a report on Medicare’s 2-midnight rule titled “Vulnerabilities Remain Under Medicare 2-Midnight Hospital Policy.” The report reviews data from 2013 and 2014 and reaches several...more