| American Medical News 1996 Julie Johnsson |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| A gold mine in false claims: feds tap obscure law to pursue health care fraud. (False Claims Act) (includes related article on use of False Claims Act to prosecute quality-of-care cases) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| AMA asks FTC for flexibility on antitrust rule of reason. (Federal Trade Commission) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Antitrust guides explain messenger model.(Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice clarify procedure for setting pricing contracts between managed care networks and physicians) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Antitrust rules delayed as feds fine-tune, try to strike right tone. (health care) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Antitrust rules kill network. (Justice Dept. ruling against Children's Healthcare P.A.) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Antitrust verdict hits HMO. (health maintenance organization; U.S. Healthcare Inc.) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Boost for antitrust relief: Marshfield case pushes feds to reconcile guidelines, ruling. (Marshfield Clinic's Health Maintenance Organization and antitrust allegations) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Collective bargaining: managed care fuels date on physician unions. | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Columbia/HCA on hospital buying spree. (Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Court rulings chip away at managed care's ERISA shield. (Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Doctor plans need strategies to compete, house told. (American Medical Association chamber hears challenges faced by physician-run health plans)(Annual Meeting News) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Easing antitrust guidelines? (physician networks)(includes related article on reviewing antitrust rules) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Easing restrictions - a little. (antitrust restrictions for doctors; restrictions on provider plans)(includes related article on Justice Department ruling on collective venture between five anesthesiology groups) | Health | Julie Johnsson, Cathy Tokarski |
| Fraud probe: doctors face kickback, arson charges. (Peter D. Farr, Howard M. Addis, Saint Joseph's Medical Center) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| FTC slams doctor network, PHO. (Federal Trade Commission accuses Montana Associated Physicians Inc. and Billings Physician Hospital Alliance Inc. of anticompetitive practice, physician-hospital organization) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Having their say. (American Medical Association calls for decision making for physicians in managed care) | Health | Howard Larkin, Julie Johnsson |
| HMO coverage battle rages on; quality issues at core of high-profile case. (case involving patient Carley Christie, TakeCare Health Plan Inc.) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| HMO market drop could land on physicians. (health maintenance organizations) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| HMOs dominate, shape the market.(health maintenance organizations)(Industry Overview) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Hospitals profit on Medicare. (Prospective Payment Assessment Commission preliminary report) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| House averts Medicare pay fight. (American Medical Association House of Delegates approves compromise measure)(Annual Meeting News) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Insurer-HMO mega-merger.(Aetna's proposed acquisition of U.S. Healthcare is largest in a series) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Judge issues injunction against Marshfield Clinic. (doctor-owned enterprise forbidden from signing anticompetitive contracts in northern Wisconsin) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Justice Dept. approves rural Calif. physician network. (Sierra CommCare Inc., Ridgecrest, California) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Justice Dept. squelches Baton Rouge PHO.(physician-hospital organizations, Woman's Physician Health Organization) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Justice OKs doctor network outside antitrust safety zone. (US Justice Department, larger percentage of market allowed) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Lab firms fined record $187 million for Medicare fraud. | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Leadership for medicine's future. (1996 National Leadership Conference) (includes related article on a speech made by Dr. James S. Todd) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Managed care fraud: to track down crime, federal officials follow the money trail. | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Market gains for physicians? (evolution of managed care) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Marshfield Clinic faces class-action lawsuit.(consumer suit) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Medical professor, university face false claims charges. (University of Chicago professor Dr. George L. Weid) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Medical Staff Section: regain control of delivery systems. (Dr. Lee McCormick delivers parting address to the Organized Medical Staff Section of the American Medical Association)(Annual Meeting News) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| MedPartners, Caremark merge into $4.4 billion firm. (MedPartners/Mullikin Inc., Caremark International Inc) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Merger spurs new Battle of Vicksburg; hospital sues medical staff on antitrust charges. (Columbia Vicksburg Medical Center suing to block merger between River Regional Medical Corp. and Vicksburg Clinic medical personnel) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Mob moves in on managed care, prosecutors claim.(Genovese crime family accused of health insurance racketeering in New Jersey) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| New antitrust policy offers big gains for doctor networks. | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| New federal rule: HMOs must disclose physician pay. | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| New IRS tax, penalties target doctors in deals with hospitals. (Internal Revenue Service)(includes related article on the effects of IRS penalities on doctors) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| New life for long-dormant law. (corporate practice of medicine laws; includes related articles on Richard B. Berlin Jr., MD v. Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center case in Illinois) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| OMSS: how to help doctors survive hospital mergers. (American Medical Association Organized Medical Staff Section) | Health | Brian McCormick, Julie Johnsson |
| Pace of federal health fraud prosecutions quickens. | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| PHOs face obstacles under new antitrust standards.(Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department guidelines for physician- hospital organizations) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Re-examining care for the dying: AMA: education key to making end-of-life decisions. (American Medical Association) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Safe Harbors: doctors score symbolic win. (federal regulation; anti-kickback protections)(includes related article on safe harbor enforcement) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Savings may be FTC test in hospital, doctor mergers. (Federal Trade Commission; antitrust reform) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Signs of hope in budget deadlock; push to save Medicare could benefit doctors. | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Sneak peek at antitrust. (new guidelines for doctor ventures) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| States ask high court to hear Marshfield antitrust case. (US Supreme Court; review of Marshfield Clinic versus Blue Cross and Blue Shield United of Wisconsin) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| States slap for-profit deals. (deals between nonprofit and for-profit health care entities coming under increasing scrutiny) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Supreme Court tackles ERISA - again. (Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, Barbara DeBuono, MS v. NYSA-ILA Medical and Clinical Services Fund) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Tax deadline looming for hospital, physician insiders. (Dec. 15, 1996) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Trial focus: public unease with physician incentives.(David and Stephanie Gross vs. Prudential Health Care Plan) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Virginia doctors win $3 million in hospital kickback case.(Virginia Radiology Associates v. Culpeper Memorial Hospital) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Waiting for guidelines: new antitrust policy will change marketplace. (healthcare industry) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.
