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 typepad/syuChttp://feedburner.google.com Worth Reading This Week tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167611d40fa970b 2012-01-27T09:26:00-05:00 2012-01-27T14:26:00Z 2012-01-27T14:26:00Z Amy Monahan, Fairness Versus Welfare in Health Insurance Content Regulation, SSRN/Ill. L.Rev. Alex Stein, Toward a Theory of Medical Malpractice, SSRN/Iowa L.Rev. Pieter Cohen, Assessing Supplement Safety — The FDA's Controversial Proposal, NJEM Sharon Long et al, Massachusetts Health Reforms:... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Health Law Headlines of the Week (1/15-1/21) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760e5bf20970b 2012-01-22T10:22:17-05:00 2012-01-24T23:12:20Z 2012-01-22T15:22:17Z Sam Baker, Court Angst for Left Over Healthcare, The Hill, Jan. 18, 2012 (here). Supporters of President Obama’s healthcare reform have lost the high level of confidence they once displayed that the Supreme Court would throw out constitutional challenges to... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Lombardo on Legal Archaeology tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760e516b8970b 2012-01-21T13:48:50-05:00 2012-01-21T18:53:24Z 2012-01-21T18:48:50Z Paul A. Lombardo published an essay "Legal Archaeology: Recovering the Stories behind the Cases" in the Fall 2008 issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. It reminded me of the wonderful chapters in this volume of "health law... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Worth Reading This Week tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ffdb5d30970d 2012-01-20T09:22:00-05:00 2012-01-20T14:22:00Z 2012-01-20T14:22:00Z Ashutosh Avinash Bhagwat, Sorrell v. IMS Health: Details, Detailing, and the Death of Privacy, SSRN/Vermont L.Rev. James Bennett, Pandering for Profit: The Transformation of Health Charities to Lobbyists, SSRN Andrew Koppelman, Bad News for Everybody: Lawson and Kopel on Health... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Is the Cost Curve Bending? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760cf7bad970b 2012-01-19T15:56:15-05:00 2012-01-19T20:56:15Z 2012-01-19T20:56:15Z Perceptive analysis by Karen Davis over on the Commonwealth Fund Blog, here. While the recession has played an important role in the reduced utilization of health care services, the efforts made over the last decade to transform health care delivery... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Disclosing Gifts from Industry to Physicians tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760a61185970b 2012-01-17T00:01:00-05:00 2012-01-17T05:01:00Z 2012-01-17T05:01:00Z Robert Pear reports in the New York Times about the recently proposed rules that will require drug and device manufacturers to disclose payments and gifts to physicians. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the proposed regulations in December,... HealthLawProf Hodnicki MLK's Legacy at a South Carolina Hospital tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5a39c94970c 2012-01-16T13:46:05-05:00 2012-01-16T18:46:05Z 2012-01-16T18:46:05Z From MLK’s Legacy: The Charleston Hospital Workers’ Strike of 1969: During the year after her husband’s assassination, Coretta Scott King made several visits to Charleston, S.C., where hospital aides at what was then the Medical College of South Carolina were... HealthLawProf Hodnicki AALS Panel on Teaching Health Law: A Tour de Force tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167608a7021970b 2012-01-14T21:26:38-05:00 2012-01-15T02:43:15Z 2012-01-15T02:26:38Z The health law section at AALS put on a truly outstanding program. Jennifer Bard posted on the speakers and topics here, and I'd wanted to do a post reporting on the program. But there was so much there that I'll... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Film Guest Blogger Jeff Hammond: How Sustainable is the Sustainable Growth Rate? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167606feca6970b 2012-01-12T22:45:05-05:00 2012-01-13T03:44:22Z 2012-01-13T03:45:05Z Thanks to Katharine and the other editors here at the Health Law Profs Blog for having me as a guest blogger this month. During the month, I look forward to sharing a few thoughts with you about health care delivery... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Introducing Guest Blogger Jeff Hammond tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167606fe951970b 2012-01-12T22:28:22-05:00 2012-01-13T03:28:22Z 2012-01-13T03:28:22Z The Health Law Prof Blog extends a warm welcome to our guest blogger for January, Professor Jeff Hammond. Here is his short bio: Jeff Hammond is an Associate Professor of Law at Faulkner University’s Thomas Goode Jones School of Law... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Article on the Fate of the PPACA Appears in the NEJM tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ff780a3a970d 2012-01-12T18:40:08-05:00 2012-01-12T23:40:08Z 2012-01-12T23:40:08Z By Thomas L. Hafemeister, J.D., Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., University of Virginia School of Law An interesting article just appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine that asserts that “[a]lthough major components of [The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Establishing a Clearinghouse for Summer Teaching Positions: Call for Hiring Chair Announcements tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01676018c70d970b 2012-01-06T19:40:59-05:00 2012-01-11T13:54:54Z 2012-01-07T00:40:59Z Although many law schools, both in the United States and to a lesser extent abroad, hire faculty members other than their own to teach summer school, this has always been a haphazard process. Given the success of sharing information about... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Worth Reading This Week tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ff148527970d 2012-01-05T18:18:04-05:00 2012-01-05T23:18:04Z 2012-01-05T23:18:04Z Glenn Cohen, Selling Bone Marrow — Flynn v. Holder, NEJM Karen Sokol, The Underrecognized Role of Tort Law in the U.S. Healthcare System, SSRN/Hamline J. Pub. Policy Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, The Rhetoric Hits the Road: State Resistance to Affordable Care... HealthLawProf Hodnicki AALS Annual Meeting Panel - "Reaching Out Beyond the Classroom: Health Law Professors Interacting with the Real World" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162fee9c911970d 2012-01-02T20:14:13-05:00 2012-01-03T03:18:34Z 2012-01-03T01:14:13Z The AALS Section on Law, Medicine and Healthcare invites all who are attending the AALS Annual Meeting to come to the Section's panel entitled "Reaching Out Beyond the Classroom: Health Law Professors Interacting with the Real World" which is being... HealthLawProf Hodnicki The Nirvana Fallacy Among Health Care Cost Cutters tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162fea4e292970d 2011-12-29T12:50:26-05:00 2011-12-29T17:52:30Z 2011-12-29T17:50:26Z One of my fun little Christmas presents was the Gruber/Newquist/Schreiber comic book guide Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works. It's wonderfully illustrated and has a lot of good information. It offers a very hopeful... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Mental Health Providers Target of Fraud and Other Complaints tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01675f8a7f56970b 2011-12-28T17:05:22-05:00 2011-12-28T20:12:59Z 2011-12-28T22:05:22Z By Thomas L. Hafemeister, J.D., Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., University of Virginia School of Law A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (here) examined the likelihood of being sued for malpractice by medical specialty. The study, which... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Guest Blogger James T. O'Reilly - Fed-Mal: Revenge of Healthcare Policy Wonks tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef015438a800f3970c 2011-12-21T20:19:43-05:00 2011-12-22T01:19:24Z 2011-12-22T01:19:43Z Wonks like us lack the bling of “big time courthouse lawyers.” For those plaintiff’s attorneys whose billboards and phone book cover ads have annoyed us as quietly competent health law gurus, our day of retribution is coming. You slogged through... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Essential health benefits tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01675effa745970b 2011-12-19T13:57:36-05:00 2011-12-19T18:57:36Z 2011-12-19T18:57:36Z Tim Jost, here, on HHS's "Bulletin" guidance. Politico's take is here. [NPT] HealthLawProf Hodnicki Five Recent Cuts from the Media: Health & Popular Technological Devices tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0154387df4c3970c 2011-12-18T16:39:57-05:00 2011-12-18T21:12:50Z 2011-12-18T21:39:57Z compiled by Thomas L. Hafemeister, J.D., Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Virginia School of Law Matt Richtel, As Doctors Use More Devices, Potential for Distraction Grows, N.Y. Times, Dec. 15, 2011, at A1 (here): Hospitals and doctors’ offices, hoping to... HealthLawProf Hodnicki An Additional Thought On Coercion tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01675ef0b805970b 2011-12-18T10:05:01-05:00 2011-12-18T15:05:01Z 2011-12-18T15:05:01Z Nicole Huberfeld continues her series this month on the Medicaid cases pending before the U. S. Supreme Court over at Concurring Opinions with the following post: Recently I wrote about the coercion question posed by Florida et al. in the... HealthLawProf Hodnicki