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Health care benefits for retirees under pressure
Many retirees expect to receive continuing health care benefits for their lifetimes. However, these expectations are often being dashed as employers respond to financial pressures by reducing these...
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Power wheelchairs and scooters billed to Medicare — When appropriate and when...
Payment for Durable Medical Equipment (DME) has become one of the “hot points” for control of Medicare program expenses, bringing attorneys into struggles over regulations and their fact-intensive...
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Health Insurance Exchanges and Deadlines Under the ACA: Part 1 of 2: What are...
The extension of deadlines for setting up Health Insurance Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, most recently in a letter from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Thursday, November 15, 2012, has...
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Health Insurance Exchanges and Deadlines Under the ACA: Part 2 of 2: What are...
This article continues from the end of Part 1 of an article previously posted here on the subject of Health Insurance Exchanges and Deadlines under the Affordable Care Act. In a letter on Thursday,...
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Top Cases of 2012: Upholding Obamacare, and the rest of the story
Editors note: Over the next weeks we will be featuring posts from our Westlaw Editorial team. This is the team that analyzes cases and statutes and Headnotes and the rest of our editorial...
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Has the last word been written on the constitutionality of Obamacare?
Editor’s note: Over the next few weeks we will be featuring posts from our Westlaw Editorial team. This is the team that creates editorial enhancements for caselaw, including headnotes and Key Numbers....
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Obamacare faces new challenges in legislatures and courts
The legal controversy over Obamacare continues—not just in the courts, but now in state legislatures. In court, for example, familiar challenges are moving forward in the Fourth Circuit. And now a...
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Rarely Used Law May Reduce Charges for Physicians Accused of Trafficking...
Defense attorneys representing physicians accused of overprescribing are breathing new life into a rarely used Florida law. Recently, attorneys have started arguing that physicians accused of...
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Deadly Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Spawns Complex Web of Litigation
Forty-five Americans are dead and almost 700 have suffered serious infections, resulting, allegedly, from contaminated steroid injections made by a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy, New England...
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Challenging the Contraception Provision: A plea for good medicine and pleader...
This Monday we will present a webinar through the West Legal Ed Center focusing on The Affordable Care Act’s Contraceptive Provision. As a prelude to this topic, we would like to explain our hope that...
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Westlaw Journals weekly round-up
The new Westlaw Journals blog brings you litigation headlines in over 30 substantive areas of law. Here are some highlights from the past week: Judge blocks Arizona from cutting funding for Planned...
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Westlaw Journals weekly round-up
The new Westlaw Journals blog brings you litigation headlines in over 30 substantive areas of law. Here are some highlights from the past week: Court tosses $500 million Medicaid fraud complaint: A...
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Florida Legislature Increases Requirements for Medical Expert Witnesses –...
In June 2013, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed legislation that places additional restrictions on how Florida courts are allowed to qualify physicians and others who testify in medical malpractice...
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The Obamacare Report/This Week: The ACA and Attorneys
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is in full swing, and the need for more attorney involvement is growing daily. Even the media are picking up on the growing need for legal...
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Employers Buy Time: Did the Administration Blink — Or Make a Crafty Move?
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) made an interesting adjustment this week, as the large-employer mandate was set aside until 2015. No longer must large employers face the “play...
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The Access to Care Report/This Week (#1): How Health Needs Are Measured Makes...
This is #1 in a series of weekly Access to Care Reports. There is current debate over how population health should be measured. (See for example Karen Hacker and Deborah Klein Walker, “Achieving...
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House Bill 939 Becomes Law, Significant Changes Made to Florida’s Medicaid...
Governor Rick Scott signed into law Florida House Bill 939 which went into effect July 1, 2013. The changes contained in this bill mark somewhat significant changes to Florida’s Medicaid Program...
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The Obamacare Report/ACA Exchanges Shift Toward Low-Tech: Changes for...
It is likely that many individuals and organizations will need to call on attorney assistance to deal with the new Health Exchanges. However, the nature of the assistance that will be required is...
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Access to Care Report/This Week (#2): Electronic Medical Records Can Impair...
Electronic medical records (EMRs) are rapidly replacing paper-based records. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), “more than half of doctors’ offices and 80% of hospitals...
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Should large and small employers be treated the same under the ACA?
This is #4 in a series of Obamacare Reports by Mitchell Law Office Under the Affordable Care Act, large and small-business employers are treated differently. But now that the large-employer mandate has...
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