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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Overlapping surgeries: Time for a compliance checkup?

Overlapping surgeries is a practice that has been used for many years by healthcare providers (such as hospitals and surgical centers). This practice generally refers to situations where one lead attending surgeon is...more

Stark & Stark

Impact of Extracranial Surgery and Anesthesia on Clinical Outcomes after Traumatic Brain Injury: TRACK-TBI Study

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is known to result in long-term functional and cognitive deficits. However, the influence of exposure to surgery and anesthesia on TBI outcomes remains uncertain, despite previous associations...more

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NSW Supreme Court Considers Inherent Risk and Peer Professional Opinion in Bariatric Surgery Case Polsen v Harrison (No. 8)

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On 6 July 2023, Lonergan J found in favour of Dr Harrison (Defendant), in a complex bariatric surgery case brought by Katrina Polsen (Plaintiff). A full decision can be read here. BACKGROUND - On 22 July 2013, the Plaintiff...more

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Better Health Care Newsletter - June 2023

Medical experts are rethinking obesity, one of the major harms to Americans’ health. After investigating why heavy patients after bariatric surgeries lose significant weight — and tend to keep it off — researchers have...more

Knobbe Martens

FDA Approves LimaCorporate’s 3D-Printed Reverse Shoulder Replacement System

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The FDA recently approved LimaCorporate’s fully 3D-printed glenoid baseplate and humeral stem for use in reverse shoulder replacement....more

Morris James LLP

Failure to Diagnose Cancer

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Cancer is unfortunately a common medical condition that affects many people in this country. It affects children, adolescents, and adults. The types of cancer that affect each age group can vary widely. Cancer itself can also...more

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Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - May 2022

With tech, you pretty much know that each new generation of smart phone or laptop is going to be better: faster processing, better screen resolution, more apps -- more of everything. Medical care doesn't work that way. ...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

OIG Permits Physician-Employer to Retain Profits from Anesthesia Services Provided by CRNA in Physician Office and ASC

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A pain management practice that employs a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) to provide anesthesia services in both an office location and an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) owned, in part, by the physician-owner...more

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Aching backs lead to dubious surgeries and billion$ in revenue$

As the nation rapidly grays, not only are middle-aged and older patients undergoing increasing numbers of knee, hip, ankle, and shoulder surgeries, back operations also have spiked - and a significant number of these...more

King & Spalding

OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion on Critical Access Hospital’s Warranty-Like Arrangement for Certain Joint Replacement...

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On September 15, 2021, OIG posted Advisory Opinion 21-12, regarding a proposed arrangement involving a program to offer certain free items and services to patients who experience specific complications after undergoing...more

Hogan Lovells

FDA warns over use of robotically-assisted surgical devices

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Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety communication to remind patients and health care providers that the safety and effectiveness of robotically-assisted surgical (RAS) devices for use in...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

New Connecticut Law Expands Authority of DDS to Consent to Emergency Medical Care on Behalf of Certain Patients in Residential...

On July 7, 2021 Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act 21-135 (the “Act”). The Act, among other things, makes a revision to the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) statutes allowing DDS regional or...more

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What is the Aziyo FiberCel case all about?

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On June 16, 2021, Morris James LLP filed a lawsuit against Aziyo Biologics, Inc. (Aziyo) and Medtronic entities (Medtronic) on behalf of Delawarean, Richard Williams after he became infected with tuberculosis after spine...more

Console and Associates, P.C.

Are You In Pain After Hernia Surgery?

Thanks to defective hernia mesh implants, not all hernia repair surgeries go as planned. The patients who received defective mesh often end up in worse shape than they were before surgery and, sometimes, have to undergo an...more

Harris Beach PLLC

New York’s First Department Limits the Ability for Defendants to Testify as to Custom and Practice in Medical Malpractice Cases

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The First Department has limited the role of testimony as to custom and practice in establishing what a defendant physician did in a specific instance in medical malpractice cases in Guido v. Fielding, 190 A.D.3d 49 (2020)....more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Proving Consent Was Not Informed Is Not So Easy For Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs

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Last week, the Court of Appeals reinforced the importance of the statutory presumption that a doctor has obtained valid informed consent. The Hauser v. Brookview Women’s Center court affirmed the trial court’s instruction on...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Abbott Expands Counties Required To Postpone All Non-essential Surgeries

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Texas: On July 9 Governor Abbott issued a Proclamation (the Proclamation) amending Executive Order GA-27. The Proclamation expands the number of counties required to postpone all non-essential surgeries and procedures...more

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New Jersey Suspends “Elective” Surgeries as of Friday Night, March 27, 2020

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On March 23, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed Executive Order 109 ordering that all elective surgeries performed on adults be suspended in the state after 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 27 in light of the COVID-19...more

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Additional COVID-19-Related Guidance For Texas Hospitals

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The past couple of days, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and the Texas Medical Board (TMB) have announced initiatives applicable to Texas hospitals designed to combat the COVID-19 crisis...more

Snell & Wilmer

Arizona Emergency Declaration Impacting Medical Surgeries During the Pandemic: What Arizona Healthcare Organizations and...

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On March 19, Governor Doug Ducey issued an executive order delaying “all nonessential or elective surgeries, including elective dental surgeries, that utilize personal protective equipment or ventilators” with the purpose of...more

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Exclusion for Gender Reassignment Surgery May Violate Title VII and the Equal Protection Clause

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 23, 2019, District Judge Rosemary Marquez ruled, in connection with a motion to dismiss, that Title VII does protect discrimination based on a person’s transgender status, and that a health...more

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13 million and one reasons why simultaneous operations should be barred

A big Boston hospital has offered 13 million and one ways to try to make good with a former orthopedic surgeon who assailed the respected institution and colleagues for performing simultaneous operations in which doctors went...more

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As FDA warns of implant perils, new questions arise about 3D mammograms

Angry women, anxious that officials were failing to protect their health, besieged a federal Food and Drug Administration hearing in the spring. That unusual outcry may have helped push regulators off their bureaucratic...more

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Don’t Waive Goodbye to Your Right to a Jury Trial

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The Seventh Amendment guarantees a right to a jury trial in cases arising under the common law. But even that fundamental right can be waived if not properly asserted in the lower court....more

Hogan Lovells

What comes out, must go back in: Court sides with FDA on "same surgical procedure" and "homologous use" definitions governing...

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FDA authority to crack down on illegally marketed stem cell treatments confirmed - On 3 June a U.S. District Court in Florida issued a decisive blow against US Stem Cell Clinic LLC, granting the U.S. Food and Drug...more

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