Sunday, September 03, 2023

Labor Day Weekend Post #1: Hospitals Need to Do More to Protect Workers from Rudeness

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There's a growing sense out there that we are experiencing a worldwide uptick in rudeness, probably brought on or at least exacerbated b...
Friday, August 18, 2023

Maternal Mortality: New JAMA Article and Video

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JAMA has published a free online article, "Maternal Mortality Crisis and Extension of Medicaid Postpartum Coverage" , but before r...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

5th Circuit Affirms District Court's Decision re: Mifepristone

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This is complicated, but the bottom line is this: The FDA's loosened rules for access to mifepristone remain in effect, at least until t...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Health Insurers' Tactic Resurfaces With a Vengeance: Deny, Deny, Deny

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I once had a Health Law student who had been an HMO employee in a previous life. She was the one who answered the phone when a provider (hos...
Monday, August 14, 2023

RFK, Jr., Public Health Law & Policy

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is running for the Democratic Party's 2024 presidential nomination. He is a prominent member of one of this coun...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

Physician Discipline: Covid Denier's License Suspended, but Not For Lying

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Sherri Tenpenny, D.O., testified before the Ohio legislature that the Covid vaccine "magnetizes" recipients and interfaces with 5G...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Health Care M&A Activity Hits 3-year Low . . . Or Not

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Becker's Hospital Review  has  a story  (Aug. 9) about  a KPMG report  that describes a three-year decline in merger-and-acquisition act...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Texas Case Highlights the Human Cost of Texas's Abortion Ban

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After the Supreme Court's Dobbs  decision, much was written about the human suffering that will result once states ban or seriously rest...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

SCOTUS Agrees to Review Proposed Opioid Settlement

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From Bloomberg's USLW email teaser: The US Supreme Court agreed to consider scuttling Purdue Pharma LP’s $6 billion opioid settlement, t...

Noncompete Clauses, the FTC, and the Health Care Industry

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As described in an  excellent paper on the American Bar Association's website (sorry, but you need to be an ABA member -- or know one -...
Wednesday, August 09, 2023

The Hidden Harms of CPR

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In a truly great article this past weekend in The New Yorker , Dr. Sunita Puri describes the conundrum around the use of cardiopulmonary re...
Tuesday, August 08, 2023

SEC's Final Cybersecurity Rule and the Health Care Industry

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Rachel Rose and Bob Chaput have written a helpful guide to the SEC's new final rule on cybersecurity and related issues (most especially...
Monday, August 07, 2023

Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System

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Much has been written about the shockingly low level of mental health facilities and services in Texas, especially if you are poor or uninsu...
Sunday, August 06, 2023

Medical Error & AI: Who Is Liable?

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"Locating Liability for Medical AI" [ SSRN Download  (requires subscription)] DePaul Law Review, Forthcoming W. NICHOLSON PRICE II...
Saturday, August 05, 2023

Abortion Litigation: Texas Trial Judge Enjoins Enforcement of SB 8 Under Limited Circumstances

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In a nutshell: "A Texas judge ruled Friday [Aug. 4] the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnanc...

Is Common-Law Contract Theory Superior to the No Surprises Act?

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A new article from David Orentlicher et al.: "Limiting Overall Hospital Costs by Capping Out-of-Network Rates" [ Free Download ] A...
Friday, August 04, 2023

Reproductive Rights after Dobbs: New Article in SMU Law Review

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"Pregnancy Risk and Coerced Interventions after Dobbs" [ Free Download ] SMU Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (2023) ELIZABETH KUKURA, D...
Thursday, August 03, 2023

Public Health Law Priorities to Pursue While Congress Recesses

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The American Public Health Association (APHA) sent out its call to action during the current Congressional recess. In addition to providing ...
Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Henrietta Lacks -- Still Immortal -- Family Settles Suit Against Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Anyone who has read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks  is familiar with the story. Cancer cells from Henrietta Lacks's cervix were gr...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

House & Senate Pass Bipartisan Bill to Reform Organ Procurement Transplantation Network

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Last Thursday evening (7/27), in a rare bipartisan move, the Senate passed H.R. 2544  (entitled the “Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and...