Friday, September 29, 2006

Ill. rules against Provena in property-tax case

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From Modern Healthcare 's Daily Dose : The director of the Illinois Department of Revenue [ link ] rejected an appeal by Provena Health,...

Latest from AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly (29 Sep 2006)

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From the excellent Health Lawyers Weekly ( AHLA member benefit ), here's the table of contents from the September 29 issue : Top Storie...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

Public hospital governance manual

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From the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems comes this handy 94-page guide, authored by three Powell, Goldstein he...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Health costs' rate of increase down, but still 'way ahead of inflation, family incomes

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Two stories in the New York Times today, both well worth reading. (And I don't have a stable link to take you to them; as soon as I fin...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

"Excited delirium": legitimate diagnosis or another name for "police brutality"?

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Every so often -- as with the administration of the death penalty, for example -- medical science and law enforcement procedures overlap in ...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Universal access, universal coverage, universal pessimism

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Two developments on the access-to-health-care front today: The Congressionally-created Citizens' Health Care Working Group released the...

Is teacher's suicide attempt "an immoral act"?

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This is probably a little more of an employment law issue, but mental health lawyers may find interesting this story from the September 20 i...

Health policy redux

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Our reading assignment in Health Law tomorrow is Chapter 7 in the casebook by Furrow et al. ("Health Care Cost and Access: The Policy...
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Change in organ allocation rules produce dramatic results

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There's a good piece in today's N.Y. Times about the dramatic decrease in waiting times for patients on the lung-transplant waitin...
Saturday, September 23, 2006

Latest from AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly (22 Sep 2006)

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From the excellent Health Lawyers Weekly (AHLA member benefit), here's the table of contents from the September 22 issue: Top Stories Ph...
Friday, September 22, 2006

Medicare Part D: appeals process and regulatory oversight

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The Kaiser Family Foundation released two issue briefs on the Medicare prescription drug benefit program (Part D) last week: Issue Briefs E...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Disasters and the law

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I just received a copy of Disasters and the Law , the new book by Dan Farber and Jim Chen (Aspen 2006, ISBN 0735562288). It's an interes...
Sunday, September 17, 2006

From the JCT: a handy little black-letter primer on tax-exempt hospitals

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For health-law students who are struggling, or who (like mine) are planning to struggle, to understand the federal law of tax exemptions as ...
Saturday, September 16, 2006

Latest from AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly (15 Sep 2006)

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From the table of contents of the September 15 issue of AHLA 's Health Lawyers Weekly , a free member benefit : Top Stories Grassley Con...
Friday, September 15, 2006

Tax-exempt hospitals & Sen. Grassley's Finance Committee

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The Senate Finance Committee's web page for the Sept. 13 hearing on tax-exempt hospitals is fully populated with witness statements, as...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Latest from the law reviews

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From the Marian Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington: FOOD AND DRUG Hareid, Jonathan A. Comment. Testing drugs and testing ...
Monday, September 11, 2006

Senate Finance Comm. hearings scheduled on nonprofit hospitals and community benefit

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From AHLA's Tax and Finance Practice Group comes this e-mail alert: To: Tax and Finance Practice Group Members From: Linda S. Moroney,...
Sunday, September 10, 2006

DEA and proposed controlled-substances rules

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From the Federation of State Medical Board 's weekly "BoardNet News" (Friday, September 8, 2006): DEA Seeks Comment on New Pro...
Saturday, September 09, 2006

Latest from AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly (8 Sep 2006)

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From the table of contents of the Sept. 8 issue of AHLA 's Health Lawyers Weekly , a free member benefit : Top Stories CMS Reports On On...
Friday, September 08, 2006

New article documents higher brain activity in vegetative patient

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The N.Y. Times reports today that the journal Science has published an article [ abstract ; pdf (requires subscription)] in which Britis...
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