Health Care

April 21, 2021

Health Care Complaints Commission v Sriskanda [2021] NSWCATOD 42 (on AUSTLII) mostly concerns inappropriate prescription of drugs of addiction without authority, prescribing of drugs in excessive quantities for no apparent therapeutic reason and inadequate clinical records. It is of interest however for another aspect of the conduct complaints, being the disclosure of patient information to another patient. At [15], complaint three set out that at a consultation with Patient K, the practitioner inappropriately disclosed confidential…

COVID-19 Workplace Law Advisor

To Relieve Healthcare Workers Shortage, Congress Considers Recapturing Unused Visas

By Forrest G. Read IV

April 21, 2021

The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act (HWRA) has been introduced in the Senate again. The bill would recapture 15,000 immigrant visas for doctors and 25,000 for nurses. The bill has bipartisan support. Introduced by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), John Cornyn (R-TX), Todd Young (R-IN), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Susan Collins (R-ME), the bill focuses on starting to eliminate the shortage of healthcare workers in the United States that has become more apparent during the COVID-19…

DC Medical Malpractice & Patient Safety Blog

Biden urged by NAACP and black health groups to ban menthol in cigarettes

By Patrick A. Malone

April 21, 2021

President Biden, who lost a son to the disease, has a personal commitment to fighting cancer. He has made improving Americans’ health a top priority of his administration, calling for trillions of dollars in government spending in this area. He also has said he wants his officials to be at the fore in slashing at racial inequities in health care. These are big reasons why the NAACP, along with a leading black doctors’ group and…

Healthcare Law Blog

The American Jobs Plan and the American Rescue Plan: The Biden Administration Bets Big on Home and Community-Based Services

By Kenneth Yood, Eva Schifini & John Tilton

April 21, 2021

Late last month, the Biden Administration announced the second installment of its recovery plan, dubbed the “American Jobs Plan” (the “Plan”). The Plan’s $2.3 trillion price tag includes $400 billion to revamp and reinvest in Medicaid’s home and community-based services (“HCBS”) over the next eight (8) years – representing over 17% of the Plan’s budget. Biden’s HCBS strategy aims to provide more solutions to help the overburdened healthcare system serve America’s aging and…

La Revue

Mesures d’instructions in futurum : compétence du juge du fond ou du juge du lieu d’exécution de la mesure

By Laure Perrin

April 21, 2021

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Cass. Civ. 2, 2 Juillet 2020, n°19-21.012 En vertu de l’article 145 du Code de procédure civile, une partie peut saisir le juge, sur requête ou en référé, afin de voir ordonner des mesures d’instructions visant à conserver ou établir avant tout procès la preuve de faits dont pourrait dépendre la solution d’un litige. La mesure classique est la saisie de pièces /emails. La question du juge compétent pour ordonner se pose souvent pour les…

Health Law Advisor

NY Chiropractor Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Health Care Fraud Scheme

By Victoria Vaskov Sheridan & John D. Barry

April 21, 2021

On April 13, 2021, a New York-based chiropractor, was sentenced to nine years in prison, and ordered to pay close to $20 million, for running what the federal government alleged was a large scale scheme to defraud Medicare and other third party insurers.[1] The sentencing stems from a case originally filed under seal on August 29, 2018, in which the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York alleged that two New…

The Healthcare Investor

Women in PE to Know: Yichen Feng

By Amber Walsh

April 21, 2021

McGuireWoods has long been an avid supporter of the advancement of professional women. As part of our initiative seeking to expand the leadership of women in private equity, we are continuing our series of profiling women leaders in private equity. We are hopeful that this series will serve to inspire other women to pursue their careers in private equity in a way that best challenges and motivates them, which these impressive women have all done.…

Health Care Law Today

Bipartisan Leadership of House Committee of Energy and Commerce and its Health Subcommittee Urge HHS Secretary Becerra to Vigorously Enforce Compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule

By C. Frederick Geilfuss II & Jana L. Kolarik

April 21, 2021

By letter dated April 13, 2021 (Letter), the Democrat and Republican leadership of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Subcommittee on Health, wrote United States Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier Becerra, urging HHS to provide robust oversight and enforcement of the Hospital Price Transparency Rule (Rule). The Rule, which became effective January 1, 2021, requires hospitals to make available to the public a machine readable and searchable file containing a list…

California License Law Blog

Medical Board of California Section 2310 Physician License Suspensions

By Fredrick Ray

April 21, 2021

California Business and Professions Code section 2310 empowers the Medical Board of California to immediately and without prior notice suspend certain California physician licenses. Business and Professions Code section 2310 provides that if a California physician’s license in another state is suspended or revoked outright and that action is reported to the National Practitioners Data Bank, and the physician’s primary place of practice is outside of California, the physician’s California license can be immediately suspended. …

Pharma in Brief

New Proposed Amendments to the Federal Courts Rules: Proportionality, Abuse of Process, and Motions Before the Federal Court of Appeal

By Morgan Westgate & Jordana Sanft

April 20, 2021

On April 10, 2021, the Rules Committee of the Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court (the Rules Committee) launched a consultation on amendments to the Federal Courts Rules (the Rules) on proportionality, abuse of process, and Federal Court of Appeal motions. In the Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement (RIAS), the Committee has stated these amendments are necessary to “allow the Courts to strike a balance between the importance and the complexity of the…

Health Care

Conduct: Patient confidential information disclosure.

To Relieve Healthcare Workers Shortage, Congress Considers Recapturing Unused Visas

Biden urged by NAACP and black health groups to ban menthol in cigarettes

The American Jobs Plan and the American Rescue Plan: The Biden Administration Bets Big on Home and Community-Based Services

Mesures d’instructions in futurum : compétence du juge du fond ou du juge du lieu d’exécution de la mesure

NY Chiropractor Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Health Care Fraud Scheme

Women in PE to Know: Yichen Feng

Bipartisan Leadership of House Committee of Energy and Commerce and its Health Subcommittee Urge HHS Secretary Becerra to Vigorously Enforce Compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule

Medical Board of California Section 2310 Physician License Suspensions

New Proposed Amendments to the Federal Courts Rules: Proportionality, Abuse of Process, and Motions Before the Federal Court of Appeal

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