Wednesday, September 27, 2023

AHLA Podcast on Tax-Exempt Joint Ventures

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AHLA has a nice, 19-minute podcast that offers a useful overview of the types of issues that arise when a tax-exempt entity enters into a jo...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Fourth Circuit Reinstates ERISA Claim Against Administrator (and Contractors) of Self-Insured Plan

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Here are the facts as stated in the Fourth Circuit's opinion in Rose v. PSA Airlines et al. , (4th Cir. 9/11/2023): The Employee Retirem...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Texas Attorney Convicted for Role In Kickback Scheme

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It's relatively rare for an attorney to be such an integral part of a kickback-for-referrals scheme that he gets convicted of money-laun...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

How Many Separate Fraud Schemes Can You Spot in This Picture?

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This doesn't quite match the $200 million health care fraud scheme I reported on yesterday, but it could still be a great final exam ...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

Health Care Fraud Case of the Week

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  Here's the headline from the DOJ news release on this conviction: "Nurse Practitioner Convicted of $200M Health Care Fraud Schem...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Nonconsensual Pelvic Exams

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Over the years (decades, actually), I've heard reports from med students who were disturbed by what they witnessed during their ob-gyn c...
Sunday, September 03, 2023

Labor Day Weekend Post #2: Hospital Cancels Bargaining Session After Nurse 'Walk-in'

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  The Ascension hospitals in Austin and Kansas have been stuck in place for months in contract negotiations with the National Nurses Union. ...

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...