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 typepad/syuChttp://feedburner.google.com Beyond Medicaid--How the Affordable Care Act Will Change Mental Health Treatment--and some helpful Apps for further research tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901d663635970b 2013-06-14T21:15:35-07:00 2013-06-15T04:15:35Z 2013-06-15T04:15:35Z This is a helpful article from a mental health perspective about how the Affordable Care Act will change mental health treatment. Given the volume of material health lawyers need to review about not just law directly but also health policyFor... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Affordable Care Act Coverage Medicaid Mental Health Tax credit litigation on the move tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0191034fbe82970c 2013-06-13T14:23:52-07:00 2013-06-13T21:22:20Z 2013-06-13T21:23:52Z For those of you who thought we could forget about ongoing ACA litigation, here's a little update: the issue of premium assistance through tax credits for insurance purchased in federal exchanges is alive and well. The plaintiffs in the recently... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Affordable Care Act Constitutional Health Care Reform PPACA Spending States Breaking News - Supreme Court Rules Human Genes May Not Be Patented tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901d571f24970b 2013-06-13T08:14:43-07:00 2013-06-13T15:28:44Z 2013-06-13T15:14:43Z According to a news release by the NYT: Human genes may not be patented, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. The case concerned patents held by Myriad Genetics, a Utah company, on genes that correlate with increased risk of hereditary... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Guest Blogger Professor Jessie Hill - Regulating Reasons:The ACLU Challenges Arizona’s Ban on Sex- and Race-Selective Abortion (Part I) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab0f200c970d 2013-06-12T17:18:35-07:00 2013-06-13T00:18:28Z 2013-06-13T00:18:35Z In my earlier post on the ACLU lawsuit challenging the Arizona state law that criminalizes performing an abortion for race-selection or sex-selection, I discussed the plaintiffs’ choice to pursue an equality claim, rather than a privacy claim. There is also... HealthLawProf Hodnicki In Reversal, Obama to End Effort to Restrict Morning-After Pill tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192aafbb62e970d 2013-06-10T17:41:23-07:00 2013-06-11T00:44:10Z 2013-06-11T00:41:23Z The New York Times reports that [t]he Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the most popular morning-after contraceptive pill for all women and girls, a move fraught with political repercussions for President Obama. The... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Looking Ahead to the Supreme Court's Remaining Health Law Related Cases tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef019103329ff7970c 2013-06-10T15:40:21-07:00 2013-06-10T22:40:21Z 2013-06-10T22:40:21Z Although it's probably true that with some imagination every Supreme Court decision could be related back to some aspect of Health Law, today's Post (which, yes, was supposed to be up Friday) is intended to highlight the as yet unreleased... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Constitutional Genetics Pharma States Unconstitutional Guest Blogger Professor Jessie Hill - Regulating Reasons:The ACLU Challenges Arizona’s Ban on Sex- and Race-Selective Abortion (Part I) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192aad8a0b1970d 2013-06-07T06:27:59-07:00 2013-06-07T13:34:09Z 2013-06-07T13:27:59Z As a long-time lurker on the HealthLawProf Blog, I want to thank Katharine Van Tassel for inviting me to guest blog during the month of June. My scholarship and primary interest are at the intersection of health law and constitutional... HealthLawProf Hodnicki A Ruling from the 5th Circuit: Pregnancy and Breastfeeding ARE Related tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901d096342970b 2013-06-05T16:42:41-07:00 2013-06-06T15:24:29Z 2013-06-05T23:42:41Z A case from the employment discrimination world that might be of interest to health law folks is EEOC v. Houston Funding II, Ltd., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 10933 (May 30, 2013). The employee in the case, Donnicia Venters, was told... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Introducing Guest Blogger Professor Jessie Hill tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901ce40d16970b 2013-06-03T02:00:00-07:00 2013-06-05T15:19:15Z 2013-06-03T09:00:00Z HealthLawProf Blog is honored to introduce Professor Jessie Hill, BA 1992 (Brown), JD 1999 (Harvard), as our guest blogger for the month of June. Professor Hill is the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research and the Laura B. Chisolm... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Guest Bloggers Mary Ann Chirba and Alice A. Noble - Our Bodies, Our Cells: FDA Regulation of Autologous Adult Stem Cell Therapies tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192aa9af4a7970d 2013-06-01T14:48:00-07:00 2013-06-01T21:48:00Z 2013-06-01T21:48:00Z Stem cells have been an endless source of fascination and controversy since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996. This month’s announcement of a cloned human embryo from a single skin cell [1] came on the heels of Sir John... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Are Health Care Providers Deliberately Misunderstanding HIPAA--And if So What You Can Do About it? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192aa858bc3970d 2013-05-30T22:01:00-07:00 2013-05-31T05:01:00Z 2013-05-31T05:01:00Z Ever since HIPAA was implemented in 2002, it has been used by health care providers to make life more difficult for patients by preventing their family members from being with them in care areas and by refusing to share information... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Health Law HHS HIPAA Hospitals Nurses Physicians Policy privacy ACA Final Rule on Wellness Plans tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192aa85933b970d 2013-05-30T16:13:37-07:00 2013-05-30T23:13:37Z 2013-05-30T23:13:37Z On May 29th, HHS issued the final rule governing wellness incentives in group health plans. While the incentives themselves are not a surprise, the scope they are given is worthy of ongoing attention. Wellness incentives have been controversial because of... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Indiana's second petition for certiorari denied tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192aa7994b5970d 2013-05-29T14:21:07-07:00 2013-05-29T21:20:47Z 2013-05-29T21:21:07Z The Supreme Court will not be hearing Indiana's argument that it can deny governmental funding to healthcare providers who perform abortions. The Seventh Circruit had held that Indiana's prohibition on government funding was an impermissible limitation on Medicaid's free choice... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Constitutional Medicaid DNA Art tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0191029a9c11970c 2013-05-27T10:54:56-07:00 2013-05-27T17:54:56Z 2013-05-27T17:54:56Z According to an article in the NYT, an artist has collected DNA samples from litter on sidewalks, such as chewing gum and cigarette butts, and used those samples to extract and sequence DNA that she then used to make computer... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Lessons About Medical Error Learned Watching I Love Lucy. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef019102845966970c 2013-05-25T07:54:35-07:00 2013-05-25T14:54:35Z 2013-05-25T14:54:35Z It's no secret that the night staff of a hospital are both over-worked and over-tired. Nor is it any secret that many medical errors occur at night. But until we look at the totality of the human factors making up... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Cost Effectiveness Health Care Health Care Costs Health Care Reform Health Economics Health Law Hospital Finances Hospitals Insurance Medical Malpractice Nurses Patient Safety Payment Physicians Policy Public Health Quality Quality Improvement Reform Research Science and Health Substance Abuse Guest Bloggers Mary Ann Chirba and Alice A. Noble - A Decade's Quest for Safer Drugs: Congressional Committee Green Lights Regulation of Drug Supply Chains and Compounding Manufacturers tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901c866e27970b 2013-05-24T11:34:37-07:00 2013-05-25T17:52:17Z 2013-05-24T18:34:37Z On May 22. 2013, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee unanimously approved S.959, “The Pharmaceutical Compounding Quality and Accountability Act,” and S.957, “The Drug Supply and Security Act,” (now incorporated into S. 959 as an amendment). Congressional... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Evidenced Based Practice: When will Law Catch up with Medicine? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901c4be364970b 2013-05-17T21:19:05-07:00 2013-05-18T04:19:05Z 2013-05-18T04:19:05Z Two widely reported studies this week about bed rest for women at risk of preterm delivery and reduction of salt consumption in order to promote heart health highlight two things we don’t think about enough—that a lot of standard medical... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Bioethics Comparative Effectiveness Cost Effectiveness Health Care Costs Health Law Innovation Policy Public Health Quality Improvement Reform Research Guest Bloggers Professors Alice A. Noble and Mary Ann Chirba - The ACA’s Tobacco Use Rating: Implementation, Inconsistencies and Ironies tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901c4177af970b 2013-05-16T15:44:54-07:00 2013-05-16T22:44:11Z 2013-05-16T22:44:54Z As the Affordable Care Act continues toward full implementation, the law’s complexity is on full display. As we have noted in earlier writings, the ACA continues the federal tradition of using a fragmented approach to allocating oversight responsibilities among federal... HealthLawProf Hodnicki HIPAA and the Medical Records of Deceased Nursing Home Patients tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017eeb3da044970d 2013-05-16T09:22:43-07:00 2013-05-16T16:22:43Z 2013-05-16T16:22:43Z Warning: some of this post is HIPAA-wonky. But read on: the punch line is that HIPAA does not protect the living or the dead from blanket release of medical records to their personal representatives—unless state law provides otherwise or patients... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Hospital Billing Varies Wildly, Government Data Shows tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017eeb27ad8c970d 2013-05-14T08:24:45-07:00 2013-05-14T15:24:45Z 2013-05-14T15:24:45Z Coming right on the heels of the story by Steven Brill, Why Medical Bills are Killing Us, Time (March 4, 2013), the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the data for 3,300 hospitals that covers bills submitted from... HealthLawProf Hodnicki