On Aug. 20, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown struck down the FTC's ban on noncompete agreements, calling it "unreasonably overboard without a reasonable explanation." The rule was scheduled to take effect Sept. 4.
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San Bernardino, Calif.-based Social Action Community Health System, received more than $5 million in grant funding to address physician shortages, KTLA 5 reported Nov. 18.
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, the largest ambulatory healthcare accreditor, has named new board officers and two elected directors for the 2024-to-2025 season.
On Nov. 14, President-elect Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Cincinnati-based TriHealth Physician Partners filed a notice of a data breach with the Attorney General of Massachusetts Nov. 6, according to a Nov. 18 report by JD Supra.
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Transparency is a healthcare buzzword used in a number of broad contexts, but frequently appears in discourse about the relationship among physicians, payers and patients.
Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System agreed to pay $2.37 million to settle allegations it submitted improperly modified claims to Medicaid.
For the second year in a row, Princeton (N.J.) University has been named the top college in America by Forbes, according to the list published in November.
Pharmaceutical company QOL Medical and its CEO Frederick Cooper have agreed to pay $47 million to settle allegations they offered kickbacks to promote claims for a QOL drug.
A physician in East Setauket, N.Y., has pleaded guilty to accepting kickbacks for ordering medically unnecessary brain scans.