20
06, 2023
20
06, 2023
SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania & Strategic Organizing Center v. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
On May 18, 2023, Strategic Organizing Center (SOC)—which is a coalition of labor unions Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Communications Workers of America, and United Farmworkers of America—as well as SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania filed a complaint against University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) with the Department of Justice (DOJ). UPMC is a nonprofit cross-market system that operates as health care provider and insurer with forty hospitals in Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland. The complaint urges the DOJ to investigate whether UPMC has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, which prohibits monopolies and [...]
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05, 2023
15
05, 2023
8
05, 2023
28
04, 2023
26
04, 2023
25
04, 2023
HB 864 (see companion bill SB 83)
Amending the act of July 19, 1979 (P.L.130, No.48), entitled "An act relating to health care; prescribing the powers and duties of the Department of Health; establishing and providing the powers and duties of the State Health Coordinating Council, health systems agencies and Health Care Policy Board in the Department of Health, and State Health Facility Hearing Board in the Department of Justice; providing for certification of need of health care providers and prescribing penalties," in licensing of health care facilities, providing for hospital pricing transparency; providing for acquisition of health care facilities; and [...]
25
04, 2023
SB 521
An Act prohibiting the enforcement of a noncompete covenant entered into by a health care practitioner.
25
04, 2023
SB 83 (see companion bill HB 864)
Amending the act of July 19, 1979 (P.L.130, No.48), entitled "An act relating to health care; prescribing the powers and duties of the Department of Health; establishing and providing the powers and duties of the State Health Coordinating Council, health systems agencies and Health Care Policy Board in the Department of Health, and State Health Facility Hearing Board in the Department of Justice; providing for certification of need of health care providers and prescribing penalties," in licensing of health care facilities, providing for hospital pricing transparency; providing for acquisition of health care facilities; and [...]