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 typepad/syuChttp://feedburner.google.com 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 Remembering the Bad Old Days of HIV/AIDS Exceptionalism--and How News from Kansas, an HBO Documentary, and Dancing with the Stars Can Teach Students To See it When it Happens Again tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017eeb0fb990970d 2013-05-11T15:45:07-07:00 2013-05-11T22:47:15Z 2013-05-11T22:45:07Z The controversy in Kansas over Sub HB 2183, which was passed into law on April 17th, 2013, puts me in mind of how difficult it is to explain the period of time when "aids specific" laws emerged. My purpose in... HealthLawProf Hodnicki AIDS Health Law Personal Experience Policy Politics Proposed Legislation Public Health Public Opinion ACA Medicaid Expansion and Private Insurance tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901c02a36a970b 2013-05-09T21:07:40-07:00 2013-05-10T04:07:40Z 2013-05-10T04:07:40Z Among the many states with Republican governors balking at taking federal money for the ACA Medicaid expansion, a few such as Arkansas and Ohio are exploring a compromise with HHS: use Medicaid expansion money to purchase coverage through health exchanges... HealthLawProf Hodnicki More to come on § 1983 and Medicaid's remedy problem tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017eeafc4837970d 2013-05-09T11:36:35-07:00 2013-05-09T18:36:27Z 2013-05-09T18:36:35Z With millions of new enrollees poised to enter the Medicaid program in 2014, Medicaid's remedy quandry will become a more pressing issue. The Medicaid Act contains no obvious remedy for Medicaid providers or Medicaid beneficiaries when states fail to deliver... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Guest Bloggers Mary Ann Chirba and Alice A. Noble - Medical Malpractice, the Affordable Care Act and State Provider Shield Laws: More Myth than Necessity? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017eeae7f2f0970d 2013-05-07T18:01:20-07:00 2013-05-08T01:02:59Z 2013-05-08T01:01:20Z Given the ambitions and reach of the Affordable Care Act, confusion about its intended and inadvertent impact is inevitable. Since its enactment in 2010, the ACA has raised legitimate and less grounded concerns among various stakeholders ranging from individuals and... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Publication of Symposium Issue - Capacity, Conflict, and Change: Elder Law and Estate Planning Themes in an Aging World tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017eead8a9bc970d 2013-05-07T02:09:00-07:00 2013-05-05T21:11:27Z 2013-05-07T09:09:00Z The 2012-13 Symposium Issue of the Penn State Law Review Capacity, Conflict, and Change: Elder Law and Estate Planning Themes in an Aging World is now available on-line. This Symposium Issue arose out of collaboration between two sections of the... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Subscribing to HealthLawProf Blog tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017eeade4c4e970d 2013-05-06T10:38:48-07:00 2013-05-06T17:37:04Z 2013-05-06T17:38:48Z We offer several ways to have HealthLawProf Blog content automatically delivered to your computer, tablet, or smart phone: RSSFeeds: You can subscribe to our feed to receive HealthLawProf Blog posts via your RSS reader, by going here. Email: You can... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Petrie-Flom Conference on the FDA--and Transparency of Clinical Trial Data tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017eeadca4c0970d 2013-05-06T06:30:44-07:00 2013-05-06T14:56:36Z 2013-05-06T13:30:44Z This year's Petrie-Flom Conference was devoted to the FDA in the 21st Century. If the distribution of conference papers is any harbinger, it appears likely that food is and will continue to play a diminishing role in the agency's future.... HealthLawProf Hodnicki The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Welcomes New Health Law Faculty Members Micah Berman and Efthimios Parasidis tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901bdafa47970b 2013-05-06T03:00:00-07:00 2013-05-05T20:47:31Z 2013-05-06T10:00:00Z The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law welcomes two new health law faculty members, Professors Micah Berman and Efthimios Parasidis. A big Ohio welcome to both! Here are their short bios: Micah Berman’s expertise is in public health law... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Introducing Guest Bloggers Mary Ann Chirba and Alice Noble tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef019101d0dc83970c 2013-05-05T13:32:50-07:00 2013-05-06T11:47:12Z 2013-05-05T20:32:50Z The HealthLawProf Blog is very proud to introduce its guest bloggers for the month of May, Professors Alice Nobel and Mary Ann Chirba of the Boston College Law School. Here are their short bios: Professor Alice A. Noble is a... HealthLawProf Hodnicki SSRN Top Ten Health Law Downloads Between March 2 and May 1, 2013 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901bbdc087970b 2013-05-01T08:08:01-07:00 2013-05-01T15:08:01Z 2013-05-01T15:08:01Z The following are the top ten SSRN downloads for Health Law for the period between March 2 and May 1, 2010: Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 941 Why Did Law Professors Misunderestimate the Lawsuits against PPACA? David A. Hyman, University... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Sheltered Workshop Litigation in Oregon tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017d432476e3970c 2013-04-26T11:57:11-07:00 2013-04-26T18:57:11Z 2013-04-26T18:57:11Z I have just returned from the Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium sponsored by the National Federation of the Blind: Push Forward and Push Back--Continuing the Struggle for the Right to Live in the World. The Symposium is an annual event,... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Health Care Turf Wars Playing Out On The Legal Stage tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017eea1d1c6f970d 2013-04-09T11:28:22-07:00 2013-04-09T18:28:22Z 2013-04-09T18:28:22Z Much of the increased need for primary health care services anticipated to follow full implementation of the ACA, especially in rural areas, will likely be filled by nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Yet, restrictive state licensing regulations in many states... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Useful Article on Privacy and Secondary Uses of Information tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017d428dc4ea970c 2013-04-05T10:10:52-07:00 2013-04-05T17:10:52Z 2013-04-05T17:10:52Z A quite useful article on privacy and secondary uses of information just came across on ssrn: Clark D. Asay, Consumer Information Privacy and the Problem(s) of Third-Party Disclosures, forthcoming in the Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property. Asay nicely... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Medical-Legal Partnerships—Collaborating to Transform Health Care for Vulnerable Patients tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017c3857142f970b 2013-04-04T07:22:58-07:00 2013-04-04T14:22:58Z 2013-04-04T14:22:58Z The 15th annual Southern Illinois Healthcare/Southern Illinois University Health Policy Institute, Medical-Legal Partnerships—Collaborating to Transform Health Care for Vulnerable Patients will be held at SIU in Carbondale on May 17, 2013. Featured Speakers--Morning Session Ellen Lawton, JD, Lead Research Scientist... HealthLawProf Hodnicki More on the Cola Wars tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017d425dccac970c 2013-03-28T21:38:05-07:00 2013-03-29T04:38:05Z 2013-03-29T04:38:05Z Two weeks ago, I wrote about the court decision striking down New York City's ban on certain sugary drinks sold in large containers. It seems that Mississippi has taken quite a different course than that recommended by Mayor Bloomberg of... HealthLawProf Hodnicki Just When I Thought I Had Seen Everything, Dialing for Coverage tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017ee9c39ba8970d 2013-03-26T14:22:10-07:00 2013-03-26T21:22:10Z 2013-03-26T21:22:10Z Just when I thought I had seen everything when it comes to deciding who gets health insurance and who does not, comes a report in Sunday's New York Times about how Tennessee administers its Medicaid program for "medically needy" residents.... HealthLawProf Hodnicki