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Byline: Andis Robeznieks As Congress drafted elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that would tie Medicare payments to quality metrics, the House of Representatives added a provision [...]

NIH proposes new set of conflict-of-interest rules The National Institutes of Health has proposed an updated set of rules for reporting and managing financial conflicts of interest among investigators working [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro From London to Washington to Kansas City, Mo., HCA is facing legal actions that could have impacts measured in hundreds of millions of dollars. Last week, the [...]

Byline: Cinda Becker A federal jury in Columbus, Ohio, convicted Lance Poulsen, the former owner and chief executive officer of National Century Financial Enterprises, on all charges in a witness-tampering [...]

Byline: Gregg Blesch The Florida-based Federation of Physicians & Dentists has agreed to stop coordinating negotiations anywhere in the country, settling a 2005 lawsuit alleging the organization illegally drove up [...]

Byline: Gregg Blesch CINCINNATI-A judge in Hamilton County, Ohio, mapped out how three hospitals will be cut loose from the six-hospital Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati. The hospitals-470-bed Christ Hospital [...]

Byline: Shawn Rhea When Robert Betz left his post as the contracted president and chief executive officer for the Health Industry Group Purchasing Association in December 2005, it appeared to [...]

Byline: Patrick Reilly Two Washington state hospital groups have filed a lawsuit against Premera Blue Cross seeking to stop the state's largest health insurer from converting to a for-profit corporation. [...]

A recent federal appeals court decision interpreting the federal False Claims Act may provide new support for whistleblowers. In reinstating a $1.3 billion, 7-year-old False Claims Act lawsuit in Minnesota, [...]

The Greater New York Hospital Association plans to sue HHS this week, alleging that one of the agency's nationwide fraud probes is illegal. The move by one of the country's [...]

Sunbeam Corp has filed a federal lawsuit against the American Medical Assn (AMA), accusing the association of a breach contract and asking the court to force the AMA to abide by the terms of the contract. The AMA had agreed to sell its name and seal to Sunbeam for an estimated $1 million a year in royalties, but criticisms from other associations and consumer groups prompted the AMA to back out of the deal., From a marketing standpoint, the American Medical Association and Sunbeam Corp. were a perfect match. The AMA stood to make an estimated $1 million a year in royalties by selling [...]

The American Hospital Association has reached an out-of-court settlement with a group of healthcare vendors that say the AHA misrepresented the anticipated number of attendees at its last annual convention [...]

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is being sued by the American Hospital Association (AHA) for the first time since 1989, when it was named as a plaintiff in the AHA's suit against the NLRB's new collective bargaining rules for healthcare industry workers. The AHA lawsuit is linked to the HHS' Medicare billing-fraud investigations. The AHA lawsuit claims that the HHS has not legal right to challenge hospitals Medicare claims for outpatient laboratory tests., When the American Hospital Association sued HHS last week over one of its Medicare billing-fraud investigations, it marked the first time in more than six years that the Chicago-based hospital [...]