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A Win For Fla. Hospitals On Patient Safety Data Confidentiality
Hospitals On Patient Safety Data Confidentiality The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida last week enforced valuable protections over hospitals’ Patient Safety Work Product-privileged documents pursuant to Patient Safety Quality Improvement Act of...
CMS Proposed Rule Increases Price Transparency of Hospital Standard Charges
Hospital Standard Charges Hospital Standard Charges On July 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Calendar Year (CY) 2020 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System...
DOJ Indicts Opioid Distributor, Executives, and Pharmacists
Opioid Distributor Opioid Distributor Today, the government arrested two executives- Anthony Rattini, President and James Barclay, Compliance Officer - of Ohio based drug distributor Miami-Luken, Inc. The government also arrested two pharmacist that each owned a...
What House Bill 843 Means for the Future of Physician Non-Competes
Future of Physician Non-Competes Future of Physician Non-Competes *Update July 1st: House Bill (HB) 843 was signed into law on June 25, 2019. Section 542.336, Florida Statutes, which relates to the restrictive covenants discussed below became effective immediately...
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