04.27.15
On March 31, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had entered into a consent agreement with Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc., the Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County and HCA, Inc.
04.23.15
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is trying to make life easier for community banks, Comptroller Thomas J. Curry recently explained in a speech, working on legislation that would lighten both regulatory and supervisory burdens.
Arkansas broke new ground with its Marketplace Premium Assistance Medicaid expansion (widely referred to as the “Private Option”) last year, spurring additional states to consider the model.
04.22.15
What’s safer—riding in a cab or riding in an Uber car?
04.21.15
On April 1, 2015, the SEC announced its first-ever enforcement action against a company for using restrictive language in confidentiality agreements with witnesses interviewed during internal investigations that has the potential to improperly stifle whistleblowers and impede the whistleblowing ...
This week, CMS proposes continued 90% funding for Medicaid eligibility and enrollment system development.
04.20.15
The U.S. Supreme Court decided the first of two major employment law cases this term when a 6-3 majority of the Court held that the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973), burden-shifting framework applies to a pregnant employee seeking to demonstrate disparate treatment through ...
04.15.15
Following a growing precedent in the California federal district courts, a judge recently concluded that a defendant in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case did not impermissibly use an automated telephone dialing system (ATDS) because human intervention was involved.
04.14.15
The uninsurance rate for U.S. adults dips to 11.9%, national health expenditures come in below estimates and Medicaid expansion appears imminent in Montana.
04.10.15
The Affordable Care Act provides states with a powerful incentive to expand Medicaid to adults with incomes up to 133% of the Federal Poverty Level, paying for 100% of Medicaid coverage through 2016, and eventually phasing to 90% in 2020 and beyond.