May 24, 2013

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Attorney-Client Privilege ‘Bombshell’ Takes Center Stage in Halifax Stark Case
Reprinted from Report on Medicare Compliance

A federal judge on May 8 ordered Halifax Hospital Medical Center to turn over a legal memo on physician compensation to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and its whistleblower, saying it was not protected by attorney-client privilege because of the crime-fraud exception .... Read Full Story

Agents and brokers “really have to make a choice to become a sophisticated expert [on health reform] or not. It is time to change or it is time to do something else [with your career].

— Joanna Antongiovanni, immediate past president of the Texas Assn. of Health Underwriters, told AIS’s Health Plan Week.

Click here to read the HEALTH PLAN WEEK article in which this quote appeared. (Free for HPW subscribers; $17 for non-subscribers).

Today's Datapoint

$8 million … has been awarded by HHS to the public relations firm Weber Shandwick to promote health insurance exchanges.

From INSIDE HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGES.

• Congressional Record
• Federal Register

CalOptima named Patti McFarland chief financial officer (CFO). McFarland was CFO at Central Coast Alliance for Health....Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. promoted David Ramsay to CFO. Ramsay was vice president of corporate development.

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