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Dec 4, 2019 · Learn how the AMA has fought this year to preserve the patient-physician relationship, keep government out of the exam room, and maintain liability reforms.
For example, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) generally preempts state laws related to employer-sponsored health plans. Below is a selection of Supreme Court cases involving health care, arranged from newest to oldest.
- Full Disclosure—Surprise Billing and Hospital Price Transparency in 2022
- Provider M&A Faces New Antitrust Headwinds
- Pandemic-Related Enforcement and Oversight
- Health Care Workforce Employment Law Issues to Watch in 2022
- The Health Care Workforce Idea
- Securing The Supply Chain For Health Care Providers
- Behavioral Health Transactions Outlook For 2022
- Towards A Common Definition For Value-Based Arrangements
- Covid Is A Catalyst For App Expansion
Lisa A. Lucido and Benjamin C. Fee, Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC +Listen to Episode 1 In an effort to promote greater transparency for consumers in health care, Congress, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and several states have implemented laws and regulations related to ...
Lisl Dunlop, Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP +Listen to Episode 2 The change in administration has brought a more aggressive approach to antitrust enforcement with a sharp focus on the health care industry. In July 2021, President Biden issued a sweeping Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy reasserting the administration’s...
Jody Rudman, Husch Blackwell LLP +Listen to Episode 3 The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in an unprecedented array of measures to provide relief, assistance, and monetary protections for Americans, businesses, and health care systems and providers, among others. The Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), signed into law on Marc...
Shalyn Smith McKitt, Balch & Bingham LLP +Listen to Episode 4 We thought 2020 was unprecedented, but health care employers were faced with new challenges in employment law as the world adapted to COVID-19 in 2021. And 2022 won’t be any different. The introduction of vaccines in 2021 led to workforce dilemmas and the shift to the new “normal” called...
Tiffany Buckley-Norwood, Trinity Health +Listen to Episode 6 Diversity and inclusion in the health care workplace carries several benefits, such as higher employee morale, better recruitment and retention, more creative problem solving through varied perspectives, and better care for the community.15The following are three areas to watch. Defining ...
Michael Herald, Guardian Healthcare, and Sarah Swank, Nixon Peabody LLP +Listen to Episode 7 In the early days of the pandemic, many health care providers, their workers, and patients experienced first-hand the impact of supply chain disruption. Supplies such as masks, gloves, and gowns used to keep workers safe were in limited supply. In some part...
Purvi Maniar, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP +Listen to Episode 8 A Pandemic Within a Pandemic. Already one of the most active sectors in health care mergers and acquisitions for a number of years, behavioral health was propelled to the forefront by the challenge to our collective mental health and wellbeing posed by COVID-19. During the pandemic, ab...
Tiana Korley, University of Michigan Office of the General Counsel +Listen to Episode 9 A survey of the general public revealed that among the small number of respondents who had heard of the phrase “value-based care,” there were widespread differences in their understanding of the phrase’s meaning.26Many health care industry stakeholders likely fi...
Robin Locke Nagele, Post & Schell PC +Listen to Episode 10 In the coming year, we expect that Advance Practice Professionals (APPs) will continue to see significant opportunity for expansion as to their scope of their services and their level of independence in the clinical and the business end of providing services. COVID has taught that “the assu...
- Health Care’s AI Transformation: Managing Risks and Rewards in an Evolving Landscape. Lisa Amanti, athenahealth. Katherine Snow, Hinge Health Inc. Alya Sulaiman, McDermott Will & Emery LLP.
- Major Expansion of Federal Regulation of Managed Care Through the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. Kevin Malone, Epstein Becker & Green PC.
- Antitrust Trends and Forecast for the Health Care Industry. Rosa M. Morales, Crowell & Moring LLP. Alexis J. Gilman, Crowell & Moring LLP. +Listen to Episode 3.
- Fraud and Abuse Issues to Watch. Jonathan A. Porter, Husch Blackwell LLP. *Contributed by AHLA's Fraud and Abuse Practice Group. +Listen to Episode 4. The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2023 decision in United States ex rel.
- Reproductive Health Rights in a post-Roe Era. Devon Minnick and Alaap Shah, Epstein Becker & Green PC. +Listen to Episode 1. The U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dobbs) uprooted a half-century of Roe v. Wade precedent regarding abortion rights under constitutional law.
- Health Care Antitrust Enforcement Trends and Outlook. Dionne Lomax, Affiliated Monitors, Inc. +Listen to Episode 2. The first year after President Biden’s sweeping Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy has delivered robust antitrust enforcement in the health care industry.
- Telehealth Trends: What to Watch. Amy Joseph, Jeremy Sherer, and Melania Jankowski, Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC. +Listen to Episode 3. The COVID-19 pandemic instigated a paradigm shift for telehealth in the United States, with services delivered via telehealth becoming more widely accessible and more readily covered by commercial and governmental payers.
- Implications of the CMS Framework for Health Equity. Dawn Hunter, Network for Public Health Law. +Listen to Episode 4. In 2021, I wrote about the movement toward racial equity in health outcomes, noting the opportunity for hospitals, health care systems, and insurers to work with partners to address the ways that racism has been institutionalized in the health care system.14 Some of the trends identified, such as building workforce capacity and diversity and improving data collection and use, are reflected in the CMS Framework for Health Equity 2022-2032.15 The Framework is responsive to Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.16 The Executive Order established a comprehensive, whole-of-government approach to racial equity, requiring executive departments and agencies to conduct an equity assessment of their policies and programs and to develop Equity Action Plans, among other things, and it defined equity broadly to include multiple intersectional identities, including race and ethnicity.
May 16, 2024 · Developments just this year have introduced complexities that healthcare organizations must navigate to ensure compliance, safeguard patient rights, and maintain operational integrity. 1. Impact of post-Dobbs decisions. The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, has had profound implications for ...
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Jun 22, 2022 · This article summarizes this term’s major health care decisions as of June 21, 2022 and highlights a few cases that are already on the Court’s docket (or could soon be) for the next term.
