Quality Control on the Back-End via the ACA and on the Front-End via Tort...
By Vickie J. Williams I am back after a brief hiatus for the Jewish holidays. L’Shanah Tova to all my readers who have just celebrated the Jewish New Year. The first Monday in October is, of course, a...
View ArticleNew Scholars in Residence Program – A New Pilot Program for Public Health...
With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Network for Public Health Law and the Foundation are establishing Scholars in Residence – a new pilot program for public health lawyers. The...
View ArticleMedicaid Denials of Coverage for Prosthetic Devices: A Successful (for now)...
By Leslie P. Francis A recent Utah Court of Appeals decision is very much worth calling to the attention of those interested in access to health care and in disability rights. As financial pressures on...
View ArticlePosition Announcement: University of Georgia Law School – Medical-Legal...
The University of Georgia School of Law seeks a tenure-track assistant professor to serve as the director of a to-be-created Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) Clinic, beginning the 2013 – 2014 academic...
View ArticleNew “What Ifs”: Election Questions; Ongoing ACA Litigation
By Nicole Huberfeld Two vaguely related thoughts on the future of the ACA. First, when I present my co-authored Medicaid post-mortem paper forthcoming in B.U. L. Rev., I find I am frequently asked...
View ArticleCongressmen are Concerned that Meaningful Use Stage 2 is Too Weak
By Leslie P. Francis On October 4, four Republican Congressman, all with powerful positions concerning health care, wrote Secretary Sebelius urging suspension of “meaningful use” Stage 2 payments until...
View ArticleThe DOMA Petition You Should Be Following
By Nicole Huberfeld You may be thinking “DOMA? Hello, this is HEALTH LAW.” Please stick with me for a moment. The Supreme Court appears to be collecting petitions for certiorari regarding the Defense...
View ArticleMarijuana Initiatives in the Upcoming Election
By Leslie P. Francis In a year of a presidential election, initiatives are likely to get lost in the shuffle unless they have implications for the race at the top–as did the state efforts to ban...
View ArticleThis Week’s Edition of ACA Challenges
By Nicole Huberfeld Earlier this week, Jonathan Adler wrote in the National Review Online that challenges to the individual mandate were just beginning. And today, Oklahoma’s September challenge to the...
View ArticleTools for Teaching the Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
By Jennifer S. Bard I’m sure many of us are talking about the contaminated steroid injections which have spread a fungal form of meningitis Exserohilum rostratum across the country. The CDC, which as...
View ArticleMedical Malpractice, the Affordable Care Act and State Provider Shield Laws:...
By Mary Ann Chirba and Alice A. Noble Given the ambitions and reach of the Affordable Care Act, confusion about its intended and inadvertent impact is inevitable. Since its enactment in 2010, the ACA...
View ArticleA Decade’s Quest for Safer Drugs: Congressional Committee Green Lights...
By Mary Ann Chirba and Alice A. Noble On May 22. 2013, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee unanimously approved S.959, “The Pharmaceutical Compounding Quality and...
View ArticleOur Bodies, Our Cells: FDA Regulation of Autologous Adult Stem Cell Therapies
By Mary Ann Chirba, J.D., D.Sc., M.P.H. and Alice A. Noble, J.D., M.P.H. Stem cells have been an endless source of fascination and controversy since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996. This month’s...
View ArticleA Ruling from the 5th Circuit: Pregnancy and Breastfeeding ARE Related
A case from the employment discrimination world that might be of interest to health law folks is EEOC v. Houston Funding II, Ltd., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 10933 (May 30, 2013). The employee in the case,...
View ArticleOf Data Challenges
Cross-posted from the HealthLawProfs blog. Challenges designed to spur innovative uses of data are springing up frequently. These are contests, sponsored by a mix of government agencies, industry,...
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