New rule ups the ante for Medicare fraud whistleblowers *

USA - May 6 2013
Blowing the whistle on Medicare fraud may become dramatically more lucrative. On April 29, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…

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Vegan hospital worker’s flu vaccination refusal may be protected religious belief *

USA - January 14 2013
The Supreme Court and Title VII's expansive view of "religion" is well illustrated by Chenzira v. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, in…

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Another hospital settles nurses’ compensation antitrust case *

USA - July 19 2012
Earlier this year we reported that a federal judge narrowed the claims, but refused to grant summary judgment in its entirety, in a “wage-fixing” case involving several Detroit-area hospitals.

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Sixth Circuit: charge nurses are not supervisors under the NLRA *

USA - July 2 2012
In Frenchtown Acquisition Co. v. NLRB, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that nursing home charge nurses were not “supervisors” under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and therefore were free to unionize.

Co-authors: Jeff Seidle.

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Nurse compensation antitrust case can proceed, court rules *

USA - April 4 2012
A recent opinion from a federal court in Michigan, Cason-Merenda v. Detroit Medical Center, dramatically underscores the risk of excessive sharing of compensation information between hospitals in the same geographic market, particularly through use of third-party wage surveys that do not satisfy the requirements of the policy statement issued by the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission (“DOJ Guidelines”).

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