Modern Healthcare News Editor Gregg Blesch recaps the American Health Lawyers Association's three-day annual meeting in Boston in an interview with Peter Leibold, the association's executive vice president and CEO.
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Merger and acquisition activity among hospitals is booming, but boards and executives should be wary about the deals they're making, according to an AHLA panel.
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Most people are familiar with Twitter and Facebook, but have you heard of Yammer?
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In the nine months since the CMS started using its new authority to receive self-reported disclosures of violations of the Stark laws, the federal agency has settled a grand total of one case.
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Modern Healthcare News Editor Gregg Blesch interviews Gerald Griffith, a partner in the law firm Jones Day and the incoming president of the American Health Lawyers Association. Griffith muses about how the Supreme Court will come down on healthcare reform and how the outcome will affect the...
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Federal regulators said that they've heard loudly and clearly the healthcare industry's strong concerns about proposed accountable care organization rules.
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An obscure section of the Social Security Act can effectively end executives' healthcare careers when crimes are committed by their organizations.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Joe Carlson talks to Patsy Hathorn, director of clinical resource management for Mississippi Baptist Medical Center, Jackson, Miss., at the annual meeting of the American Health Lawyers Association in Boston. Hathorn discusses how to avoid audit requests—and...
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Federal regulators are getting their groove back in challenging hospital mergers, said Matthew Reilly, an assistant director in the FTC's competition bureau.
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Modern Healthcare News Editor Gregg Blesch recaps the second day of the American Health Lawyers Association's annual meeting in Boston, which featured discussion of the federal government's legal tools for promoting accountability in healthcare as well the government's response to concerns...
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Finding an immunity from antitrust laws, a federal judge in Georgia has tossed out a Federal Trade Commission request to temporarily block Phoebe Putney Health System from purchasing a rival hospital in Albany, Ga., for $195 million.
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Legal scholars can point to any number of intellectual or demographic markers to support their predictions about whether the U.S. Supreme Court will throw out the healthcare reform law or uphold it.
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HHS deputy general counsel David Cade had some friendly advice for attorneys gathered for the American Health Lawyers Association's annual meeting in Boston.
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Advising clients on overpayment issues is one of the most difficult assignments to get, according to Robert Homchick, a partner with Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle.
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Federal healthcare reform opponent and Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli II declared that states have every right to force their residents to buy private health insurance.
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Modern Healthcare News Editor Gregg Blesch recaps the first formal day of the American Health Lawyers Association's annual meeting in Boston, which featured speeches from lawyer and CNN senior analyst Jeffrey Toobin and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
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Modern Healthcare News Editor Gregg Blesch interviews Lewis Morris, chief counsel to HHS' Inspector General Daniel Levinson, at the annual meeting of the American Health Lawyers Association in Boston. Morris discusses the provider community's anxiety over a new, explicit obligation to return...
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Massachusetts' health reform law has resulted in a 98% rate of health insurance coverage for residents, but it hasn't solved all of the state's healthcare woes, Gov. Deval Patrick said Monday.
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Modern Healthcare News Editor Gregg Blesch previews the American Health Lawyers Association's 2011 annual meeting, which begins Monday in Boston.
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