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Novel “bad faith admission” EMTALA theory survives motion to dismiss

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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May 2 2013

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently denied Contra Costa Regional Medical Center's (CCRMC) motion to dismiss

No sale -- sales commissions violate anti-kickback statute; prevent enforcement of nonsolicitation

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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March 7 2013

A durable medical equipment (DME) distributor, Joint Technology, Inc., entered into an agreement to pay a salesman commissions ranging from 18 to 22

Home not-so-sweet home - another medical repatriation case

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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January 24 2013

A recent decision by the court of appeals in Iowa has found that Iowa Methodist Medical Center did not falsely imprison two alien patients when it

Shoot, we forfeited our corporate charter - big HIPAA penalty to individual owners

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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September 27 2012

Uplift Medical, P.C. (Uplift) failed to provide forty-one individuals with timely access to their medical records and failed to cooperate with an HHS investigation of complaints regarding the company's noncompliance with HIPAA

Physician-owned hospital PPACA prohibition

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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August 30 2012

The Fifth Circuit recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by Physician Hospitals of America, the physician-owned hospital industrial trade association, and Texas Spine & Joint Hospital

Rough month for purported defenders of justice

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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August 16 2012

James Alderson filed a whistleblower action alleging Medicare fraud by Quorum Health Group and several related entities, including the Hospital Corporation of America

Providers now permitted to make gifts and donations to Ohio politicians

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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August 16 2012

An Ohio statute prohibited Medicaid providers and their owners from making campaign contributions to candidates for state attorney general or county prosecutor

Be careful of the company you keep -- corporate acts lead to executives' exclusions

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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August 16 2012

Purdue Frederick Company's President, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer and Vice President of Medical Affairs, who failed to prevent the company's fraudulent marketing of OxyContin as less addictive than other pain medications, each pleaded guilty in May 2007 to misdemeanor misbranding of a drug under the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act (FDCA

Sterilizing instruments with a coffee machine puts hospital in hot water with the NLRB

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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August 2 2012

On a February morning a hospital's heat, hot water and steam system was being repaired

Facebook access faceoff

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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June 7 2012

A New Jersey hospital's union president brought suit against the hospital alleging violations of the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, New Jersey Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act, invasion of privacy and other laws as a result of a hospital supervisor's demand that an employee provide access to the union president's Facebook page

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