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National Law Journal

Aetna, at Antitrust Trial Opening, Defends Withdrawal From Health Care Markets

Fighting to save its proposed $37 billion acquisition of Humana Inc., Aetna Inc. raised questions Monday about the future of the Affordable Care Act under a GOP-controlled Congress and the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, as the trial over the insurers' proposed merger began in a Washington federal court.
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National Law Journal

DC Circuit Pauses Health Care Funding Case, a Win for House GOP

A federal appeals court on Monday granted a request from U.S. House Republicans to pause their lawsuit that challenges how the Obama administration funded an insurance subsidy program of the Affordable Care Act. The House had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to freeze the litigation to allow Donald Trump's Justice Department to re-evaluate whether to settle or withdraw the case.
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The Legal Intelligencer

FTC Still Ramping Up Antitrust Review of Health Care Mergers

Last month, we reported on the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) steady filing of injunctions to block what are effectively local mergers of small health care providers. In 2007, the FTC filed suit in Saint Alphonsus Medical Center v. St. Luke's Health System, its first successful challenge to a hospital merger in recent history. Since then, the Obama administration-appointed FTC has appeared bolder in its approach to health care mergers, which have been on the uptick since the passage of the still-existing Affordable Care Act has encouraged providers to coordinate health care services and provide better service at a lower cost.
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New York Law Journal

NY Health Officials Will Allow Chronic Pain Sufferers to Obtain Medical Marijuana

The state's health commissioner said he will add chronic pain to the list of health conditions that are eligible for prescribed medical marijuana under New York's law that took effect in January 2016.
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Corporate Counsel

HHS Cracks Down on Health Care Privacy Violations Under HIPAA

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services broke previous records for enforcing the privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in the last fiscal year, extracting $25.6 million in settlement payments.
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National Law Journal

Aetna-Humana Trial, Unlike Anthem-Cigna, Will Feature Amicable Merger Partners

For the past two weeks, the U.S. Justice Department has clashed with Anthem Inc. in a blockbuster antitrust trial rife with conflict. The government is fighting to block a $48 billion health care merger that Anthem's tie-up partner—Cigna Corp.—appears to no longer want. The drama of that trial, where Cigna's chief executive hardly hid the strain between the insurer and its suitor, isn't expected to be mirrored when Aetna Inc., on Monday, begins to defend its $37 billion takeover of rival Humana Inc.
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Daily Business Review

Justices Agree to End Case Over Escaped Patient's Death

After an unusual series of events, the Florida Supreme Court agreed to dismiss a lawsuit stemming from the death of a patient who was killed on Interstate 75 after escaping from an Alachua County psychiatric hospital.
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Daily Business Review

Judge Backs Department of Corrections in Orlando Dispute

An administrative law judge has sided with the Florida Department of Corrections in a contracting dispute that delves into the way substance-abuse treatment services are provided in the corrections system.
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The Recorder

Department of Health Care Services v. Office of Administrative Hearings (Parents on Behalf of Student)

By | November 30, 2016
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Daily Business Review

Appeals Court Backs Notifying Minor's Parents Before Abortion

With one judge pointing to a lack of "sufficient maturity to make this critical decision," a state appeals court rejected a minor's attempt to get an abortion without her parents being notified.
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