FTC weighs next move in Mo. merger. Agency lost its antitrust case in court but can still pursue an administrative complaint.
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Antitrust Laws↗
Biomedical subjects
M Taylor
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Blaming the docs. Patient-dumping probes see physicians as culprits in turning away the indigent from ERs.
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Data Collection↗
Picking up the pieces. After a long delay, Mo. hospitals try to resume merger plans.
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Antitrust Laws↗
So what is a monopoly? Appeals court decision in Missouri case deals yet another blow to antitrust regulators.
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Antitrust Laws↗
Tax court rules on joint ventures.
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Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures↗
Private-letter ruling clarifies doc recruiting.
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Government Agencies↗
Conversion eases financial woes. Public facility is in the black after converting to private operation, escaping bureaucracy.
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Financial Management, Hospital↗
Will healthcare do time for convictions? Hospital groups seek Medicare relief as industry anticipates impact of latest fraud verdicts.
Less than a week after two hospital executives were found guilty of Medicare fraud, hospital groups last week launched an advertising blitz aimed at securing more Medicare money. But that could be a hard sell. Its success will hinge on how much the industry's image has been damaged by the recent convictions in Florida, which came only a few months after convictions in a Kansas City kickback case.
Fraud↗
Healthcare struggles with Stark reality.
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Physician Self-Referral↗
Jury convicts two in Columbia fraud case.
Nearly three years after the federal government began a criminal investigation of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. and its executives, a federal jury in Tampa, Fla., found Columbia financial executives Jay Jarrell and Robert Whiteside guilty of defrauding government health programs. A third executive, Michael Neeb, was acquitted in the case, and the jury couldn't reach a verdict on a fourth, Carl Lynn Dick.
Chief Executive Officers, Hospital↗
On the ropes. Beefed-up anti-kickback laws, growing cohort of whistleblowers pound away at healthcare fraud.
The federal government, armed with more fraud-fighting personnel and bigger budgets, is combining beefed-up kickback laws with the Civil War-era False Claims Act to hit providers with a one-two legal punch. Increasingly, providers are finding their only option is to pay big settlements.
Financial Management, Hospital↗
Suit intensifies syndication scrutiny.
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Fraud↗
One hospital treated kindly by fed probers.
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Emergency Service, Hospital↗
Defense's turn nears in Columbia trial.
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Fraud↗
Spotlight on CFOs. As feds have grown savvier, bean counters increasingly have been targets in fraud probes.
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Accounting↗
High court: FTC can regulate associations.
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Advertising↗
Georgetown settles PATH (Physicians at Teaching Hospitals) investigation.
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Academic Medical Centers↗
Columbia business practices go on trial. Case begins against four execs accused of fraud for overcharging on Medicare cost reports.
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Chief Executive Officers, Hospital↗