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Supreme Court hears from providers, individuals over Medicaid lawsuits
The U.S. Supreme Court kicked off its 2011 session earlier this week by hearing oral arguments on a case stemming from California's attempt to cut Medicaid reimbursement rates, report the New York
CHS rebuts Tenet at earnings meeting
The ongoing tug-of-war regarding Community Health Systems' ( NYSE: CYH ) hostile takeover attempt of Tenet Healthcare ( NYSE: THC ) dominated a CHS meeting earnings call last week, with the company
NLRB move may force re-thinking of providers' social media policies
A November action by the National Labor Relations Board may force many a healthcare provider to re-think its policies toward social media. As American Medical News reports, the NLRB last month filed
ACLU suit against Rhode Island HIE shows why privacy is so central to health IT
The other shoe has dropped. Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union sued a state-sanctioned health information exchange in Rhode Island , saying that the pre-operational exchange doesn't have
Maker of personal emergency medical communicator sues competitor
Home-health product manufacturer LogicMark, of Fairfax Station, Va., has sued its Plymouth Meeting, Pa.-based competitor Medical Alarm Concepts, maker of the MediPendant personal medical alarm,
Allscripts shareholders sue over alleged false company statements
Shareholders of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions have sued the Chicago-based ambulatory EMR vendor after CEO Glen Tullman told some users that the company may have rushed version 11 of its
SPOTLIGHT: Lawsuit says stimulus EMR requirements violate privacy rights
A lawsuit filed last week seeks to block federal spending on EMR subsidies for hospitals and physicians in the name of privacy. The class-action filing claims that the federal stimulus puts patient
Saying 'I'm sorry' grows more popular in med mal cases
Historically, in medical malpractice situations, attorneys have advised doctors and hospitals to deny that any medical error has been made--or even express any form of regret that a patient is
