Antitrust Considerations in Long-Term Care — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 206: Supporting Patient Care with Darra Coleman of Prisma Health
Workplace Violence in Health Care: Dissecting the Legal Landscape and Implications for Employers – Diagnosing Health Care
The CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rules
Hospice Insights Podcast: What’s the Latest on UPICs? Highlights from Recent Audit Activity, Part I
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 205: Novant Health’s Carolinas Expansion with Senior Vice President Jason Bernd
Navigating the Labyrinth of Private Equity Investments in Health Care – Diagnosing Health Care
False Claims Act Insights - Are All Healthcare “Kickbacks” Subject to FCA Liability?
HHS Office for Civil Rights Director Melanie Fontes Rainer on Progress and News at OCR
Hospice Insights Podcast - Stories of Successful Hospice Leadership: The CEO and Chief Medical Officer Relationship
Understanding Trends and Challenges in the Behavioral Health Sector
AI in the Operating Room: Liability Issues for Device Makers — The Good Bot Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 202: Life Sciences Startups and Industry Developments with Gil Price, Life Sciences Leader
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 6: Charting the Future of Nursing Home Staffing
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 201: SHL Medical’s Investment in the Carolinas with Kimberlee Steele of SHL Medical
Healthcare Document Retention
The DEA Is Knocking at Your Door . . . Are You Prepared? – Diagnosing Health Care
Hospice Insights Podcast - A Rise in Medicare Deactivations: Tips for Avoiding This Financial Pain
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 199: Bringing Awareness to Organ and Tissue Donation with Dave DeStefano of We Are Sharing Hope
Preventative Medicine: Health Care AI Privacy and Cybersecurity — The Good Bot Podcast
Ritz v. Ramsay, 305 A.3d 1056 (Pa. Super. 2023) - The decedent plaintiff in this matter was struck and killed by a vehicle operated by Ramsay, a patient of the defendant, a methadone clinic. Ramsay had been given an unusually...more
On January 1, 2023, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania unraveled a 20-year venue rule applicable to medical professional liability cases. Under the previous venue rule, a medical professional liability action may be brought...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently considered a district court’s nearly $6 million judgment in a qui tam False Claims Act (“FCA”) suit based on Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) violations. The...more
On March 13, 2024, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed Utah State S.B. 149, the Artificial Intelligence Policy Act (the AI Act) into law, which amends the Utah consumer protection and privacy laws to require disclosure, in...more
Whether at a hospital, nursing home, surgical center or private office, physicians are encountering “Medical Director” opportunities more frequently than ever before. While physicians may be intrigued by the title,...more
Diabetes and obesity drugs have skyrocketed in popularity as of late. According to a report released by Trilliant Health in September 2023, healthcare providers in the United States wrote more than 9 million prescriptions for...more
The Physician Self-Referral Law — known as the “Stark Law” — broadly prohibits physicians from profiting from self-referrals for “designated health services” (DHS) payable by Medicare or Medicaid. For example, the Stark Law...more
Miles v. Cleveland Clinic Health Sys.-E Region, 8th Dist. Cuyahoga No. 112025, 2023-Ohio-2582 - The plaintiff’s sole medical expert was not, at the time of his deposition, engaged in active clinical practice due to his...more
Wunderly v. St. Luke’s Hospital et al., 2023 WL 3993737 (Pa. Super. Jun. 14, 2023) - The plaintiff filed wrongful death and survival actions against the defendants, asserting claims of negligence and corporate negligence. The...more
Kovalev v. Stepansky, DMD, et al., 2023 WL 5624181 (Pa. Super. Ct. Aug. 31, 2023) - The plaintiff filed a pro se complaint in 2017 in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas against, among others, Irina Stepansky, DMD,...more
Healthcare providers carry heavy liability risks in the event of a medical malpractice allegation or professional standards violation, which can be costly and lead to licensing ramifications and reputational damage. While the...more
Under Pennsylvania law, medical providers and facilities may be held liable for refusal to provide voluntary inpatient examination and treatment to a person who submits him or herself for examination and treatment when the...more
On December 7, 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court decided Markel v Beaumont Hospital, 982 NW2d 151 (2022). In a 4-3 decision, the court offered a novel interpretation of Grewe which, in the words of dissenting Justice David...more
In the recent case of Markel v. William Beaumont Hospital, 982 N.W.2d 151 (2022), the Michigan Supreme Court changed the analysis for claims alleging that a hospital is vicariously liable for a non-employee’s alleged...more
Previous False Claims Act (FCA) Fundamentals posts have examined how violations of certain federal laws can potentially expose entities to FCA liability when they receive money from the government. This post focuses on how...more
Learning Objectives: - Hear from a former federal prosecutor, risk management expert, and wealth management specialist regarding enforcement and liability trends in the healthcare industry. - Learn how asset forfeiture...more
The Middle District of Florida recently held that a defendant cannot invoke the “emergency purposes” exception to the TCPA if the defendant continues to send messages after the plaintiff has instructed the defendant to stop. ...more
Befitting a year in which the lingering COVID-19 pandemic caused delays in almost every aspect of daily life, Pullman & Comley’s annual survey of notable health law cases from Connecticut’s trial and appellate courts makes...more
Health care industry participants frequently operate under nuanced legal frameworks that apply to the receipt of government funds. A breach of these regulations can open the door to draconian liability under the FCA even when...more
Genetic testing had its origins in the 1950s when scientists discovered that an additional copy of chromosome 21 causes Trisomy 21, also known as Down syndrome. Methods for staining chromosomes were used to sort and count...more
When a company decides to self-disclose misconduct (or conduct that may be construed as such) to the government, that decision triggers a stream of additional questions. In the weighty deliberations about whether and what to...more
On October 13, 2021, the California Court of Appeal, 1st District in San Francisco issued its opinion in Gray v. Dignity Health, 2021 WL 4771982. In a published decision that will likely control the outcome in at least six...more
On June 14, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the Pandemic Liability Protection Act into law. The law became effective upon his signing. This new law provides COVID-19 liability protections for health care providers,...more
Texas businesses watched the 2021 Texas legislative session closely for the potential pandemic liability relief provided in Senate Bill 6 (SB 6), or the Pandemic Liability Protection Act. With the passage of SB 6, Jackson...more
While the efforts to pass a federal COVID-19 liability shield law have failed, Governor Doug Ducey’s recent signature on Arizona’s enactment marks the 28th state that has passed shield law legislation since the outbreak of...more