Remember the old SNL Weekend Update report: “This just in, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead”? In that spirit, we bring you today’s post.

In the wake of the Chinese heparin scandal, the FDA has promised stepped-up enforcement of CGMP (see one report on the FDA Law Blog, here). And where there is enforcement action, there is inevitable tag-along action by private plaintiffs. But not every violation of statute (more…)

This guest post was written by Sean P. Costello http://www.jonesday.com/scostello/. Mr. Costello is an associate resident in the Atlanta office of Jones Day http://www.jonesday.com/Home.aspx. This post is entirely his work. It, of course, represents only his views, and not the views of his clients or firm:

At 10:00 a.m. (Central Standard Time) today, the Minnesota Supreme Court handed down its highly anticipated decision in Fleeger (more…)

shopping for crutches, an ice machine, etc. to bring to the hospital with them as they were not covered items, and they still get hit with an EOB for an assisting surgeon who was not in the network.  They did their homework, did everything they could to
and still got caught up in balance billing.  They had everything including the physician therapy verified too for after the procedure, and not many go to that extent, but being we have the non (more…)

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