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Last updated 9/06/97

Introduction This section of the Health Law Resource page highlights some of the more significant health care legal issues, in the author's view, in the news and on federal and state legisltaive agendas. There is a treasure trove of news resources on the internet. Finding articles and stories of interest, though is a time-consuming process. I try to select current items which are relevant to some aspect of health care policy or law. Health care professionals, administrators and attorneys can look here every week for links to selected newsworthy items and developments. Most of the links here take you to the site on which the story appears - I claim no copyright in nor necessarily endorse the views expressed in the items or the site to which they are linked. Please read the terms of and respect the copyrights of the various authors. Issues Archives Topics: | Telemedicine/Health Care Informatics | Patient Care & Bioethics | Medicare & Medicaid | Fraud & Abuse | Hospital Mergers/Deals | Managed Care/Insurance | Uncategorized |

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Hospital Mergers & Organizational Issues

• AHA Releases Guidelines For Hospital Mergers, Reuters, 8-01-97.
• When Rivals Talk Merger, Risks Abound Sharing information can prove damaging if deal dies, By David E. Rovella, The National Law Journal (p. B01), 7-28-97.
• Columbia/HCA, Tenet Merger Viewed As Unlikely By Analysts, Reuters, 7-25-97.
• Connecticut Attorney General's Office Rules On Assets, Reuters, 7-24-97.
• Corporate Boards:ABA Sees Inherent Risks in Lawyers' Dual Roles, By Dominic Bencivenga, The New York Law Journal, 7-17-97.
• DOJ Attempts To Block Hospital Merger With Novel Product Market Theory, National Law Journal, 7-15-97.
• Supreme Court Says New York Hospital Tax Law Supersedes ERISA, Reuters 6-4-97.
• High Court To Hear Teaching Hospitals' Reimbursement Dispute, Reuters, 6-4-97.
• Contractor Disputes Can Be Appealed Before Audit Is Complete, 97 LWUSA 391. from Lawyer's Weekly."If an IRS auditor believes that a worker should be treated as an employee rather than an independent contractor, the company will be able to take this issue directly to the IRS appeals office without waiting for the rest of the audit to be completed, under a "pilot program" that the IRS is reinstating.
• Surgeons File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Columbia/HCA, Reuters, 5-07-97.
• On The Docket: Enforcing noncompetes, (Forbes, 5-05-97).
• Failed High-Profile Mergers With Blues Highlight Pitfalls, Reuters, 4-30-97.
• Arizona Law Enables Public Scrutiny Of Nonprofit Hospital Sales, Reuters, 4-15-97.
• Baylor University Sale Assets To Go To Public Health, Reuters, 3-27-97.
• High Volume Of Hospital Conversions Raises Oversight Concerns, Reuters, 3-21-97.
• Notice of Wrongful Act Satisfied Directors' Policy, NLJ, 3/24/97.
• Regulators: We'll Block Big Hospital Chain's Bid, National Law Journal (p. B02), 3-24-97.
• PCA Files Legal Action Against Sierra For Breach And Termination; Other Strategic Options To Be Pursued, PRNewswire, 3-18-97.
• Study rebuts perception of for-profit trend, Larry Tye and Alex Pham, Boston Globe Staff, 03/18/97.
• Health Affairs Tracks Hospital Conversion Trends, Reuters, 3-18-97.
• Have the Urge to Merge? You'd Better Think Twice, Erick Schonfeld Fortune Magazine, 3-17-97.
• State And Federal Agencies Respond To Nonprofit Hospital Conversions, Reuters, 3-17-97.
• Coalition To Counter For-Profit Takeovers Of Not-For-Profit Hospitals, Reuters, 3-17-97.
• UCSF/Stanford Hospitals Consider Lease Option For Merger, Reuters, 3-18-97.
• Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals Applauds the Georgia House Passage of H.B. 600, Hospital Conversion Bill, PR Newswire, 3-14-97.
• Trustees say they call all the shots, Graduate Health System is a nonprofit with $70 million. Does the public have a say in how it spends that money?, Marian Uhlman, Philadelphia Inquirer, 3-02-97.
• BC/BS Of New Jersey Moves To Block Charity Status Ruling, Reuters, 2-27-97
• IRS Releases Regulations and Guidance Affecting Tax-exempt Organizations, Vol. 14, No. 2, Health Law Update from McDermott, Will & Emery, 2-07-97 (regulations relating to use of tax-exempt bond-financed property, liquidations of taxable corporations into tax-exempt organizations, intermediate sanctions, the substantiation and disclosure requirements for charitable contributions, and check-the-box rules.
• Hershey Medical Center To Merge With Geisinger, Reuters, 2-21-97.
• Coventry's HMOs To Sell Physician Group Practices, Reuters, 2-21-97.
• Court Finds Hershey Med Exempt From Taxes, Hosp. Ass'n PA, 2-21-97.
• JCAHO Announces New Outcomes-Based Accrediting Component, Reuters, 2-20-97.
• Specter Urges Education Carve-Out, PSO Approval, Hosp. Ass'n PA, 2-07-97.
• RI Attorney General Seeks Outside Review Of Columbia/HCA Deal, Reuters, 2-07-97.
• Advisory On Exclusive Hospital-Based Medical Service Contracts, Health Law Update from McDermott Will & Emery, Vol. 14, No. 2a, 2-07-97.
• Provider Network Size Differs by Region, Profit Status and Model and Plan Type, PRNewswire, 2-04-97.
• Symposium Analyzes Impact of Community Benefits Legislation on Hospitals in California, PRNewswire, 2-03-97.
• Physician-Operated Networks and the New Antitrust Guidelines, New England Journal of Medicine Health Policy Report, NEJM, Vol. 336, No. 5, 1-30-97.
• Follies Of Teaching-Hospital Mergers Cited, Reuters, 1-02-97.
• Hospitals, Insurers Fight Over Deregulation In New York, Reuters, 12-27-96.
• Federal Officials Call Halt To HMO Practice: Physician Bonuses No Longer Tied To Cost Controls, Reuters, 12-26-96.
• The Academic Health Center in the 21st Century, 1995 Duke Private Sector Conference, Editors Ralph Snyderman, M.D., Vicki Y. Saito.
• Noncompete Clauses Should Be Reasonable To Be Enforceable, Reuters, 12-13-96.
• California's SCAN Social HMO Seeks For-Profit Conversion, Reuters, 12-13-96.
• Missouri court upholds sales tax on fees assessed club members who lack ownership interests, West Publishing, 12-3-96.
• Massachusetts Legislators Consider Free Care Pool Funding, For-Profit Conversions, Reuters, 12-6-96.
• Massachusetts Announces New Free Care Rules For For-Profit Hospitals, Reuters, 11-22-96.
• Texas Attorney General Attempts To Block Blues Merger, Reuters, 11-20-96.
• South Carolina Hospitals Pledge Community Service In Return For Merger Approval, Reuters, 11-20-96.
• Saving Their Assets: How to Stop Plunder at Blue Cross and Other Nonprofits, Judith E. Bell, The American Prospect no. 26 (May-June 1996): 60-66.
• California Attorney General May Sue To Block Columbia/HCA Deal, Reuters, 11-12-96.
• JCAHO Launches New PPO Accreditation Track - Reuters, 10-23-96
• GAO To Begin Investigation Of Not-For-Profit/For-Profit Mergers - Reuters, 10-22-96
• Massachusetts Medical Board May Ban For-Profit Practice - Reuters, 10-21-96
• Rise Of For-profit Hospital Ventures Creates Backlash - Reuters, 10-21-96
• California Gov. Wilson Signs For-Profit Oversight Bill - Reuters, 10-10-96
• Trend of the Month: Integration of Health Information Systems from Medscape.
• Cincinnati Orthopedic Surgeon Network Satisfies Antitrust Requirements - Reuters, 10-8-96
• HEALTH LAW: Advice for Trustees, Directors of Non-Profit Entities (NYLJ) 09/30/96
• HHS to Remind Hospitals of Hill-Burton Obligation - Reuters, 9-27-96
• Intermediate Sanctions Against Excess Benefits Transactions Hospital Ass'n. of Pennsylvania, 9-7-96.
• Medical Staff Sued By Hospital For Antitrust Issues Related To Merger Reuters, 9-6-96
• Collaborating Doctors: Potential Price Fixers?, From the NLJ, May 6, 1996.
• Antitrust Investigations Can Delay or Kill Deals, from NLJ, April 15, 1996

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