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Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is in full swing. The law requires non-exempt religious organizations with fewer than 50 full-time employees to determine whether they are a large...more
Inmates in the Riverside County jails served a federal class-action lawsuit last week, claiming the county is subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishment by depriving them of basic medical and mental health care. Among...more
After a woman received an insurance settlement for injuries she sustained in a car accident, a dispute arose between the insurance company and the hospital that treated her over payment of the hospital’s lien. In many...more
Health care costs in Texas did not drop after passage of a 2003 constitutional amendment limiting medical malpractice awards, despite promises made to voters by tort reform supporters....more
A federal judge has indefinitely extended his injunction of a new Mississippi law that requires abortion clinic physicians to be board-certified OB-GYNs and to have patient-admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The law...more
In a decision issued June 5, 2012, a federal district court allowed suit by a hospital challenging the validity of Medicare regulations providing that a contractor’s decision to reopen an initial determination is not...more
On March 30, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit published its long-awaited decision in the case of United States ex rel. Drakeford v. Tuomey Healthcare Sys., No. 10-1819 (4th Cir. 2012). The Fourth...more
After three days of oral arguments last week, the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) now lies in the hands of the nine Supreme Court justices. What, if any, provisions of the sweeping health care...more
The Supreme Court heard arguments this week about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, in preparation for a ruling on whether aspects of the massive health care overhaul are allowable under the...more
Today, morning oral arguments in the Supreme Court focused on the issue of “severability,” that is, if the Court decides that the individual mandate (the subject of Day Two oral arguments) is unconstitutional, can the rest of...more
Today’s Supreme Court oral arguments centered on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) “individual mandate” (also known as the “minimal coverage provision”), the requirement, beginning in 2014, for all...more
Just over two years after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), yesterday the United States Supreme Court heard its first of three consecutive days of oral arguments in Department of...more
The U.S. Supreme Court today heard the first of four sets of oral arguments challenging key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Department of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Florida, et...more
In Nesson v. Northern Inyo County Local Hospital District, Plaintiff, a radiologist, sued the defendant hospital for breach of contract, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, violation of Health and Safety...more
Representing the latest decision involving Medicaid providers' attempts to judicially combat cuts to Medicaid reimbursement, on February 22, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a five-to-four decision in Douglas v....more
The health care debate is heating up in Florida as the state’s highest court weighs the constitutionality of a law that places caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases. The case, known as McCall v....more
The U.S. Supreme Court has announced the dates for oral argument in the lawsuits challenging the validity of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The Court will hear five and one-half hours of oral...more
At the next joint of a person who as suffered severe injures as a result af an accident it is compensation for non patrimonial damages suffered as a result of the event,which must also include the beat.Evidence of such damage...more
La responsabilita' professionale dello psichiatra non si differenzia da quella degli altri medici....more
In This Issue: - Federal Judge Stays Ruling Invalidating PPACA - D.C. District Court Upholds Constitutionality of Health Reform’s Individual Mandate and Finds it Does Not Violate the Religious Freedom Act -...more
Law360, New York (January 25, 2011) -- Health care attorneys handling cases under the federal civil False Claims Act have negotiated case settlements based on a multiplier of alleged actual damages to federally funded...more
The Third Circuit Court of Appeal in Louisiana has ruled the state’s $500,000 malpractice cap to be unconstitutional. Joe and Helena Oliver had sought relief from the Louisiana Medical Malpractice Act, which shrank the...more
CASE PENDING IN US. 9TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS STRUGGLES WITH ISSUE OF WHETHER VA IS TO BIG TO TACKLE FOR OUTRAGEOUS DELAYS IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR GIs AND IN UNREASONABLE DELAYS IN BENEFIT AND DISABILITY APPEALS....more
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