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Top Ten 2022: Surprise Billing and Hospital Price Transparency. +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 ...
- 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.
Apr 25, 2024 · Hidden Behind Bars — The Public Health Implications of Incompetency to Stand Trial. N.P. Morris and J.M. IzenbergN Engl J Med 2023;389:2314-2317. Across the United States, many people are ...
May 16, 2024 · 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 healthcare providers across the United States.
- Judge says AMA is right: Title X gag rule violates medical ethics. “This is madness,” wrote U.S. District Judge Michael McShane in Portland, Oregon, in a scathing rebuke of the Trump administration’s new Title X regulations that includes a gag rule dictating what physicians must and must not say to their patients in the Title X program about family planning.
- Court blocks law that would force physicians to mislead patients. A federal district court in North Dakota sided with the AMA and others and issued a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of a state law that would force physicians to violate the AMA Code of Medical Ethics and act as mouthpieces for a politically motivated message that is misleading and could harm patients.
- New Jersey court weighs whether non-patient can sue physician. The family of a New Jersey woman who died after a car-bicycle crash involving a psychiatrist’s patient wanted the right to sue the doctor who prescribed medication to the car’s driver.
- Physicians increasingly face “hybrid” medical liability claims. California physicians are increasingly facing “hybrid” lawsuits alleging professional negligence as well as medical battery from plaintiffs who want to avoid the state’s long-standing $250,000 limit on what juries can award for noneconomic damages in medical liability cases.
Jan 6, 2022 · 1. COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE)/Telehealth: As the pandemic wears on, the healthcare industry has found itself in an unprecedented state of flux. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) extended the federal public health emergency (PHE) through Jan. 13, 2022, and various states have their PHEs with differing end dates.
