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Supreme Court asked to kill San Fran employer healthcare mandate
Under a program that began two years ago known as Healthy San Francisco, employers with at least 20 employees there were required to either provide health insurance, offer health spending accounts or... Read more...
Bill would allow patients to sue devicemakers in state courts
Last year, the Supreme Court gladdened the hearts of devicemakers when it concluded that plaintiffs couldn't sue them in state court over alleged damages resulting from FDA-approved products. The... Read more...
Supreme Court rejects attempt to overturn San Francisco healthcare laws
San Francisco's universal health care requirement is still safe. Yesterday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy rejected the 800-member San Francisco Golden Gate Restaurant Association's... Read more...
VSP case may go to Supreme Court, affect all nonprofits
Brace yourselves, people, for the next major sea-change in healthcare. If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to take on the case of Vision Service Plan vs. the IRS, its decision could have an effect on... Read more...
Supreme Court to consider 'pre-emption' for drug companies
Diane Levine, who lost part of her right arm after a medical mistake, was awarded $6 million by a Vermont jury in her suit against Wyeth. In her case, she contended that the catastrophe that took... Read more...
Federal False Claims act uses narrowed, but legislators still want expansion
Things should get interesting in coming months when it comes to the application of the False Claims Act. On the one hand, the U.S. Supreme Court recently narrowed the application of the Act--but... Read more...
AstraZeneca asks judge to nullify $215M drug-price lawsuit
Drugmaker AstraZeneca has asked an Alabama judge to nullify a jury verdict that ordered it to pay the state $215 million in damages in a Medicaid drug-price fraud suit. The state's 2005 suit accused... Read more...
Hospitals win back $666M from Medicare
In a deal that marks one of the largest settlements ever paid by the federal government to healthcare providers, CMS has agreed to pay out $666 million to 667 hospitals that sued for back payments.... Read more...
Florida expands patient access to medical records
A Florida state Supreme Court decision has given patients access to medical error and incident reports prepared by providers, overturning legislation that had limited such access. As things stood in... Read more...
