I. Top Stories:
- House Clears HIT Legislation
- FDA To Improve Transparency Of Advisory Panel Conflicts, Official Says
II. Articles & Analyses:
- A Discussion About Alternative Dispute Resolution In The Healthcare Field
- 2005-2006 In-House Counsel Year In Review
- 2005-2006 Labor And Employment Year In Review
III. Current Topics:
A. Criminal Law
- Seventh Circuit Says Dentist May Not Withdraw Guilty Plea To Medicaid Fraud
B. Employment and Labor
- New Jersey Supreme Court Says Shareholder-Director Of Radiology Practice Not An "Employee" Under State's Whistleblower Protection Statute
C. ERISA
- U.S. Court In Pennsylvania Says ERISA Pre-Empts Hospital’s Contract Claims Against Insurers
D. Fraud and Abuse
- Update
E. Health Information Technology
- CDC Finds Increasing Percentage Of Office-Based Physicians Using Electronic Medical Records
F. Hospitals and Health Systems
- Oregon Health System Settles Charity Care Lawsuit
- U.S. Court In New Jersey Rejects Lawsuit Against Health System For Overcharging Uninsured
- Labor Union Ordered To Pay $17.3 Million For Defaming Hospital System
- Long Term Care OIG Finds State Survey Agencies Failed To Investigate Serious Complaints At Nursing Homes Within Required Timeframes
G. Managed Care
- California Governor Issues Executive Order To End "Balance Billing"
- Medicaid Sixth Circuit Upholds Dismissal Of Most § 1983 Claims Against Michigan Officials For Failure To Provide Services Mandated By Medicaid Act
- States To Receive $1.75 Billion To Offer Alternative Long Term Care Options Under Medicaid
- CMS Announces New Policies For Medicaid Asset Transfers, Improved Coordination Of Care
- CMS OKs Landmark Massachusetts Healthcare Reform Plan
H. Medical Malpractice
- Texas Appeals Court Finds Error In Dismissal Of Malpractice Action Against Laboratory
I. Medicare
- House Panel Considers Medicare Physician Payment Fixes
- GAO Finds Few Major Access Problems Reported By Medicare Beneficiaries For Physician Services
- CMS Announces Payment Updates For Home Health Services, Nursing Homes
J. News in Brief
- CMS Announces $150 Million In Transformation Grants For State Medicaid Programs
- CMS Issues Final Part D Marketing Guidelines
- CMS Awards Contracts To Test Transfer Of Medicare Data To PHRs For Online Use
K. Physicians
- California Appeals Court Rejects Physician's Retaliatory Eviction And Suspension Claims Against Hospital
- California Supreme Court Holds Hospital Could File Anti-SLAPP Motion To Strike Complaint Arising From Peer Review Proceedings
Health care law (including regulatory and compliance issues, public health law, medical ethics, and life sciences), with digressions into constitutional law, statutory interpretation, poetry, and other things that matter
Friday, July 28, 2006
AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly
With AHLA's permission, here's the Table of Contents of today's issue of Health Lawyers Weekly:
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