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An outlier or an omen? FTC breaks-up hospital’s 2008 acquisition of outpatient imaging and surgery clinics

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 3 2009

For the first time since 1994, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") challenged and forced the divestiture of an exclusively outpatient service line acquisition not involving a full-scale hospital or health care system merger or acquisition

EPA approves registration of antimicrobial with nanosilver for clothing and bedsheets

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 26 2012

The EPA recently approved a conditional registration for an antimicrobial pesticide product containing nanosilver for use on textiles, including clothing and bedsheets

Healthways Inc. to pay $40 million to settle 15-year old whistleblower lawsuit

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 28 2009

On March 13, 2009, Healthways, Inc., announced that it had agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit filed in 1994 by a former employee on behalf of the federal government involving Diabetes Treatment Centers of America Inc., formerly owned and operated by Healthways

Final HIPAA rule will regulate business associates, change HIPAA breach notification obligations

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 25 2013

On January 17, 2013 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released the much-anticipated final rule to

Recent Iowa Supreme Court opinions address disclosure of internal audits and liability for negligent credentialing

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 20 2012

The Iowa Supreme Court issued two recent opinions that advance our understanding of important concepts, including a public hospital’s obligation to release internal audit reports pursuant to open records requests, and the standard of care applicable to a hospital board of directors in fulfilling its credentialing function

JCAHO revisions to medical staff standards will impact role of medical executive committees

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 8 2010

The Joint Commission has posted proposed changes to its Medical Staff Standard that will likely change how Medical Staffs relate to their Medical Executive Committees

Drug companies in India

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • India, USA
  • -
  • June 22 2012

US pharmaceutical companies with operations in India may face investigation by the US government

HIPAA privacy and security audits underway

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 23 2012

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) requires the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to provide for periodic audits to ensure that covered entities (such as group health plans) and their business associates comply with the HIPAA privacy and security requirements

2013 brings new Medicare taxes for higher paid employees (and new withholding and reporting for employers)

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 9 2012

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or “health care reform”) added two new Medicare taxes that become effective January 1, 2013

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  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 14 2009

We have a long-standing policy of providing only job title and dates of employment when a prospective employer seeks information about one of our current or former employees

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