August 15, 2013
Nine lawyers from Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2014 (Copyright 2013 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). The attorneys who received this distinguished honor are listed below: William Pietragallo, II (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation- Defendants) Mark Gordon (Workers’ Compensation… Read more »
May 17, 2013
A California jury recently awarded a doctor $3.8 million compensatory damages after they determined that Anthem Blue Cross (“Blue Cross”) violated his right to a fair procedure after denying his application into its provider network. The case settled before the punitive damage claim was presented to the jury. See, Nordella v. Anthem Blue Cross, No. BC… Read more »
April 18, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down a North Carolina law that allowed state officials to seize one-third of a medical malpractice settlement paid to a Medicaid recipient. In the case, Wos v. EMA, North Carolina claimed over $900,000 of a legal settlement won by the parents of a 13-year-old girl born with serious injuries that… Read more »
February 1, 2013
This article was originally published in the February 2013 issue of New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, a publication of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and is reprinted here with permission. Related Information: Collateral Consequences of Healthcare Prosecutions
January 18, 2013
On January 2, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced the first settlement involving potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Security Rule involving less than 500 patients. The $50,000 settlement resulted from a breach of unprotected electronic protected health information (“ePHI”) on a stolen laptop. The HIPAA… Read more »
2012/09/01
Published in AHLA Connections (Sept. 2012) © 2012 American Health Lawyers Association. Reprint permission granted. Related Information: Who Is Enforcing the Stark Law of the United States?
August 13, 2012
As part of its ongoing effort to improve the quality of health care and eliminate Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources issued its June 2012 report concerning its oversight of quality of care in home and community-based services (HCBS) waiver… Read more »
August 1, 2012
On June 28, 2012, a sharply divided United States Supreme Court decided that The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) is constitutional. National Federation of Independent Business, et. al. v. Sebelius, et al., 567 U.S. __ (2012) (cites here to Slip Opinion). Three separate Opinions – by Chief Justice Roberts (writing for the Court), Justice… Read more »
July 9, 2012
In Brown v. Genesis II, the West Virginia Supreme Court, on remand from the United States Supreme Court, again considered the enforceability of an arbitration agreement in a nursing home negligence case. In Brown I, the West Virginia Supreme Court found that Congress did not intend for nursing home arbitration agreements to be governed by the Federal… Read more »
2012/05/09
Marc S. Raspanti will participate on the panel, “Mediation of False Claims Act Cases” on May 9-11, 2012 in Las Vegas, NV. This program is perfect for health care attorneys, compliance professionals, regulators, prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys and qui tam relators’ counsel. Discuss current legal and ethical issues that arise in the health care fraud practice Learn about… Read more »
