Health Law Weekly is a weekly publication curated from sources around the web entirely focused on healthcare business, law, and compliance. We organize the articles based upon various topics ranging from proposed regulations to business insights to healthcare events. If you are interested in submitting your article or event, please email alex@thehealthcarelawyer.com.
Antitrust
Behavioral Health
Federal Register
- Identifying the Root Causes of Drug Shortages and Finding Enduring Solutions
- Memorandum of Understanding Addressing Certain Distributions of Compounded Drug Products Between the States and the Food and Drug Administration; Revised Draft; Availability
Fraud
- Dayton doctor sentenced to prison for running a pill mill
- Houston Psychiatrist Sentenced to 144 Months in Prison for Role in $158 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
- 2 doctors, partner indicted in drug distribution scheme
- Saratoga Doctor Sentenced To More Than Five Years In Prison For Health Care Fraud And Providing False Billing Statements To Health Care Benefit Programs
Industry News and Opinions
- What Amazon Did This Week
- How Republicans Opposed To Medicaid Expansion Hurts Children
- A ‘hidden safety net’: How health authorities rapidly respond to outbreak scares on airliners
- Vermont Board Won’t Weigh In On CEO Pay
Leadership
- Medical Center Barbour’s new CEO is Justin Harris: 3 takeaways
- Witnesses weigh-in on Supreme Court pick Kavanaugh’s healthcare record
- Colorado Plains Medical Center selects new CEO: 5 notes
Medicare
- Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Requested to Analyze Whether Hospital Consolidation Increases Costs
- Senate unanimously passes bill banning pharmacy ‘gag clauses’ in Medicare
Payment/Finance
- Montana Health Co-op won a court case this week challenging the Trump administration’s decision last year to stop cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to insurers
- Hospitals face $400M in annual cardiac device costs as Medicare rates lag, study finds
Pharmaceuticals
- Judge tosses pharma lawsuit designed to thwart California transparency law
- Pharma Billionaire Charged With Penny Stock Fraud
- Endo Seeks Separate Settlement to End Opioid Lawsuits
- Richard Sackler, member of family behind OxyContin, was granted patent for addiction treatment
- Novartis to Sell Parts of Sandoz for $1 Billion
Polling/Public Opinion