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Are MRI machines exempt from sales and use tax?

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 23 2013

The Saga Continues . . . Taxpayers are again challenging the Pennsylvania sales tax treatment of MRI machines. However, this time the taxpayers are

One health system’s state tax-exempt status today; your federal tax exempt status tomorrow?

  • Squire Sanders
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  • USA
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  • March 25 2013

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013, armed with a publicly circulated legal opinion and a complaint filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County

Obamacare: round 2

  • Epstein Becker Green
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  • USA
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  • February 25 2013

The greatest drama in the Supreme Court's last term came from the legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

Employer excise taxes under health care reform contraceptive coverage mandate, new proposed regulations and HHS due process and privacy report deadline was 1113

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 3 2013

As you may have heard, the U.S Supreme Court denied Hobby Lobby an injunction against the PPACA contraceptive coverage mandate. Employers who maintain

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

CCRC fees a primer on the tax treatment of entrance and monthly fees

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • USA
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  • December 5 2012

Continuing care retirement communities are professionally managed retirement communities, many of which also function as long-term skilled nursing care facilities

FCA defendant sues DOJ for settlement details

  • Sidley Austin LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 31 2012

In 2011, Maxim Healthcare entered into a settlement agreement with DOJ under which it paid $121 million plus interest to resolve civil claims arising under the False Claims Act based on allegations that it had fraudulently billed Medicaid and the VA for services not provided or at inflated rates

Seventh Circuit holds certain provider taxes paid by hospitals not fully reimbursable under medicare

  • King & Spalding LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 22 2012

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (the “Seventh Circuit” or the “Court”) upheld summary judgment in favor of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a suit brought by nineteen Illinois hospitals (the “Hospitals”) over Medicare reimbursement of provider taxes paid by the Hospitals into a state Medicaid fund

Seventh Circuit decision holds that taxes paid by Illinois hospitals are not fully reimbursable under Medicare

  • Barnes & Thornburg LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 19 2012

Upholding a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit ruled on Oct. 16, 2012 that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was correct to lower Medicare reimbursement by several million dollars for 19 Illinois hospitals in 2005 and 2006, as HHS was within their discretion to rule that access payments offset taxes paid by the hospitals

September 2012 employee benefits update

  • Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren SC
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  • USA
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  • October 8 2012

All group health plans that offer prescription drug coverage to Medicare-eligible employees (under either an active plan or retiree plan) must provide an annual creditable coverage disclosure notice to Medicare-eligible participants and dependents no later than October 15, 2012