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A new column from Becker's Hospital Review identifies 50 things to know about healthcare costs.

Congressional lawmakers have reached a bipartisan agreement that would repeal and replace the sustainable growth rate Medicare physician payment formula.

Adaptive Biotechnologies has announced it has completed a series C financing round and completed a newly created series D round of financing.

PE firm Carlyle Group has announced it has agreed to acquire Johnson & Johnson's Ortho Clinical Diagnostics business for $4.15 billion.

JCCT, based in Lenexa, Kan., is a clinical research site platform serving pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and contract research organizations.

ViewRay Inc. has announced it has secured $30 million in funding.

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently released its Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2013 (Work Plan) in which the OIG summarizes new and ongoing reviews and activities that it plans to pursue with respect to the Department of Health and Human Services programs and operations during 2013 and beyond.

Silversmith Capital Partners has announced it has closed on its first private equity fund — Silversmith Capital Partners I — at $460 million of commitments.

In March 2010, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) proposed a substantial increase to the benchmark risk-based capital (RBC) reserve requirement applicable to insurance companies holding commercial and farm mortgage loans.

The attorney-client privilege provides such a fragile protection that disclosure to nearly any third party waives the protection. Does that general rule apply to communications among corporate affiliates?

Although the attorney-client privilege primarily protects communications between clients and their lawyers, the protection can sometimes extend to communications between corporate employees without a lawyer's participation.

Several recent Privilege Points have described most courts' narrow interpretation of the "common interest" doctrine – which allows disclosure of privileged communications to a third party without triggering a waiver.

Although Fed. R. Civ. P. 26 does not require privilege logs, most courts expect them – and many courts specifically require them.

Not surprisingly, a litigant's deliberate disclosure of privileged communications nearly always triggers a waiver, and often a subject matter waiver.

If adversity develops among former joint clients, any of the joint clients generally can obtain access to all of the joint communications and use them in the dispute.

Under Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d), a federal court "may order that the privilege or protection is not waived by disclosure connected with the litigation pending before the court."

Because work product protection only applies at certain times, clients must be able to identify the exact moment that they first anticipated litigation.