Saturday, June 29, 2024

Settlement Off in Bankruptcy Case Involving Purdue

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Let's set the stage with the first paragraph from Thursday's majority opinion in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case : The opioid epid...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Texas Medical Center Hospitals & Surgery Group Paid $15 Million to Settle Concurrent Surgery Violations

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Press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District (June 24): Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center (BSLMC), Baylor Col...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Infant Mortality in Texas -- Already High -- Increased After SB 8 and Dobbs

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A new study in JAMA Pediatrics  (June 24, 2024) (abstract  here , apparently free, at least for a while) finds that infant and neonatal deat...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Does EMTALA Require Medically-Appropriate Abortion Even in the Absence of a State Exception for Emergency Medical Conditions? [Updated June 27]

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One of the most eagerly awaited opinions yet to be released by SCOTUS is -- or was  (see below) -- Moyle v. United States , Docket No. 23-72...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Friday's Firearms Decision from SCOTUS: A Few Thoughts

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Following up on my two Father's Day posts ( here and here ) despairing the Supreme Court's tendency to favor gun ownership over gun...
Monday, June 24, 2024

SCOTUS Grants Review in Transgender-Care Case for OT 2024

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Amy Howe at SCOTUSBlog summarized the Court's action succinctly: The justices on Monday agreed to take up a challenge to a Tennessee la...

Texas Medical Board Punts (Again) on Emergency Exception to Abortion Ban

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This past Friday, June 21, the TMB issued a final rule "[that amends] 22 TAC 165 by adding . . . section[s] 165.7-165.9 concerning Exc...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Mark Hall on HCA's Acquisition of Tax-Exempt Health System

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Wake Forest law professor Mark Hall has released the latest chapter in his exhaustive preliminary report on the 2019 acquisition of Ashevill...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

HIPAA Violation Alleged Against Texas Physician

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We all know HIPAA, the  Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996  (Public Law 104-191), because seemingly every visit to ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

COVID-19 Vaccine Fraud: The Worst of the Worst?

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Here's the case summary from USDOJ (Office of Public Affairs, June 17, 2024): A New York woman pleaded guilty today to fraudulently de...
Sunday, June 16, 2024

The Bump Stock Case: Is SCOTUS a Public Health Menace (Part II)?

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The latest blockbuster decision from SCOTUS is "the bump stock case," Garland v. Cargill , U.S.  No. 22-976 (June 14). There isn...
Friday, June 14, 2024

NEWS FLASH: Telehealth Fraud is Health Fraud. Full Stop.

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Here's the headline from DOJ, along with excepts from the news release announcing the arraignment of two principals of a telehealth com...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

SCOTUS: Mifepristone Remains Available Despite 5th Circuit Ruling

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A unanimous Supreme Court today reversed a Fifth Circuit opinion that held that various actions taken by the FDA with respect to its regulat...
Saturday, June 08, 2024

"Private Equity and the Practice of Medicine"

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Harvard   Magazine has published a useful summary of the quality issues that appear to arise when private equity firms invest in health car...
Friday, June 07, 2024

Health Care Fraud: The Beat Goes On (and On and On)

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  More enforcement news from the HHS Office of Inspector General: Queens And Brooklyn-Based Eye Doctor Settles Health Care Fraud Claims For ...
Thursday, June 06, 2024

SCOTUS (5-4) Rules in Favor of Indian Nations in Health Care Funding Dispute

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Feb 28, 2023Feb 28, 2023  The Supreme Court today decided a statutory interpretation case in which millions of dollars were at stake. Witho...
Friday, May 31, 2024

More Healthcare Fraud Enforcement Actions: The Beat Goes On

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  It's hard to know who is winning the battle against healthcare fraud -- the fraudsters or the enforcers. The list of enforcement outco...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

JAMA: Texas Medical Board Dropped the Ball with its Abortion "Exceptions" Rule

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The authors of an opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association (published on-line today) offer their critique of the ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

New Study Confirms Public Health Policy and Tools Were Weakened by Judicial Decisions During COVID Pandemic

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Health Affairs  has "pre-posted" the most detailed and insightful study I've seen that shows how court decisions -- including...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

ECMO: A Clinical and Ethical Challenge for Our Time

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The New Yorker has posted an excellent essay ( "How ECMO is Redefining Death" ) on the history, current status, and ethical chall...