Two recent cases demonstrate that the maintenance or attempted acquisition by health care providers of too large a market share may lead to antitrust challenges.
Eighteen states have opted for electric utility deregulation, induding most of the states in the northeast from Virginia to Maine, and all of the mid-Atlantic.
The Maryland Self-Referral law prohibits health care providers, including physicians, from referring patients to a health care entity in which the referring provider has a financial interest.
The 2005 Maryland General Assembly Session turned out to be a very busy, a very reactive and a very creative Session in regard to health care, with several truly novel laws being enacted.
In 2004, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice (the Agencies) issued their joint report titled "Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition." The report is the result of 27 da
Excluded doctors usually fail when they challenge exclusive contractual arrangements between hospitals and other doctors. However, two recent cases are clear exceptions to this rule.
Medicaid Mental Health Services. Did you know that the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation in 2004 that prohibits the Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental Hygi
After poor care and fraud, the worst sin of hospital governance is for a hospital board to go to war with its medical staff. It is, therefore, surprising how relatively often such battles arise.
While there is no mandate that all organizations have a board of directors, boards are, nevertheless, ubiquitous in the United States for both for-profit and not-for-profit companies.
Doctors often need to refer their patients for diagnostic tests, such as x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging, known as MRIs or magnets, or computed tomography, know as CTs, before the doctor recomme
One of the most important functions computers perform for modern day business is the storage of information, and virtually every organization or company regardless of its size uses computers to con
Play or Pay in California: Did you know that California recently passed a law that will tax businesses with fifty or more employees if the businesses do not provide health coverage
Recent medical malpractice reform initiatives in Maryland have targeted certain high cost issues, such as lowering Maryland's existing cap on awards for pain and suffering. Although these "re
