Month: August 2019

August 26, 2019 SUSANNAH LUTHI  An Oklahoma state judge on Monday ruled that Johnson & Johnson fed the state’s opioid addiction crisis with aggressive marketing and sales, ordering the company to pay $572 million. The manufacturers’ “false, misleading and dangerous marketing campaigns have caused exponentially increasing rates of addiction overdose deaths and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome,” […]

August 19, 2019 11:28 AM MARIA CASTELLUCCI  The CMS announced Monday that it plans to change the controversial methodology used for its hospital star ratings in early 2021. The agency didn’t disclose specific details about what the changes will entail but it will propose them through public rulemaking some time next year. Plans to alter […]

Best Lawyers Names Top Lawyers in America AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 15, 2019 Maria Nutile was recently selected by her peers for inclusion in the 26th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America for her work in Health Care Law. Best Lawyers®, the only purely peer-review™ guide to the legal profession, announced the 2020 Edition of […]

August 08, 2019 05:30 PM JESSICA KIM COHEN Allscripts Healthcare Solutions on Thursday announced it had reached a tentative settlement with the Justice Department to resolve investigations of a company the electronic health records vendor acquired last year. Practice Fusion, which Allscripts acquired in 2018, had been subpoenaed over “certain business practices,” including the company’s compliance with […]

August 02, 2019 04:50 PM SHELBY LIVINGSTON  A whistleblower has alleged that DaVita Kidney Care and Fresenius and charity organization American Kidney Fund were involved in a years-long kickback scheme in which patients were incentivized to use only those dialysis providers who donated to the charity. According to the whistleblower complaint, which was first unsealed […]