Friday, August 30, 2024

FTC's Final Rule on Noncompetes: Recent Developments

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Health Affairs has posted a new article by Erin C. Fuse Brown, Megha Reddy, and Christopher M. Whaley: "The FTC's Noncompete Rule:...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Hall Render on the Latest Ruling Against the FTC in Challenge to Its Noncompete Rule

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The good folks at Hall Render have posted an alert concerning last Thursday's injunction against enforcement of the FTC's final rul...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Texas Governor Abbott Weaponizes Charity Care

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Uncompensated care is a serious issue that requires a serious response from serious politicians. On Thursday, rather than doing something to...
Sunday, August 04, 2024

U.S. DOJ Closes Gun Show Loophole; Judge Kacsmaryk (Of Course) Blocks Rule (Of Course) in 4 States

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As I have noted before, firearm violence is a public-health disaster. The Justice Department has taken a major step in the effort to keep fi...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Health Care Fraud & Abuse: The Week in Review

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It's been a busy week-and-a-half on the health-fraud enforcement front. I like posting these DOJ/Office of Inspector General updates for...
Friday, July 19, 2024

SCOTUS and Health Agencies (Part 2)

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The totally excellent health-policy journal, Health Affairs , posted an analysis of the likely impact of the death of the Chevron  doctrine...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

SCOTUS and Health Agencies

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The New England Journal of Medicine today posted a Perspective piece  (apparently free, at least for now) by Rachel Sachs and Erin Fuse Brow...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

The Cruelty of Texas's Abortion Ban (SB 8)

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A recent MSNBC News report (posted July 11, 2024, 4:19 PM CDT) illustrates the casual cruelty of Texas Senate Bill 8, which bans abortions ...
Monday, July 08, 2024

Controversial Donor-Organ Retrieval Technology Highlighted on NPR

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It's called normothermic regional perfusion ("NRP") and was the subject of a useful story on National Public Radio ("NPR...
Sunday, July 07, 2024

SCOTUS Kneecaps the Fourth Branch; Effect on Healthcare Regulations Is Uncertain

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In the final ten days of the just-concluded Supreme Court Term, SCOTUS delivered two gut punches and an upper-cut amounting to at least a TK...
Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Federal Judge (in the Northern District of Texas, Of Course) Enjoins FTC from Enforcing Its Ban on Non-Competes

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U.S. District Judge Ada Brown (N.D. Tex) today entered an order against the Federal Trade Commission that puts on indefinite hold the agency...
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...