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Sentencing Law and Policy
New report examines what ACA can mean for corrections and public safety
Main September 10, 2012New report examines what ACA can mean for corrections and public safety I often tell my students that all legal and public policy issues always somehow are…
Healthcare Law Insights
Paul Ryan May View the ACA as Medicare’s Biggest Threat, But Many Hospitals View It as a Lifeline
Last week, Paul Ryan accepted the nomination for Vice President. In his acceptance speech, he cited "Obamacare" as the greatest threat to Medicare, but many hospitals view the expansion of…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Another Catholic School Challenge to Women’s Health Regs Dismissed
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle (D.D.C.) dismissed Wheaton College's case against Secretary Sebelius over federal regs under the ACA that require covered employers to provide women with certain forms of preventive…
Health Industry Washington Watch
HHS Publishes Operating Rules for Health Care Electronic Funds Transfers (EFT) and Remittance Advice Transactions
On August 10, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published an interim final rule with comment period setting forth operating requirements for EFTs and electronic remittance advice…
The Right Coast
John C. Goodman: Why the Doctor Can’t See You – WSJ.com
Are you having trouble finding a doctor who will see you? If not, give it another year and a half. A doctor shortage is on its way. Most provisions of…
Health Care and Life Sciences
Providers: Do Your Managed Care Participation Agreements Apply to New Insurance Exchange Products?
As enacted in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, states are required to have established operational health benefit exchanges by January 1, 2014, or the federal government will implement…
Workforce Bulletin
Timeline of Highlights for Employer Group Health Plan Compliance with the Affordable Care Act
By Kara M. Maciel, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Now that the Supreme Court of the United States has upheld essentially all of the provisions of the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act ("ACA"), hospitality employers are faced with looming…
Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Publishes FY 2013 Medicare Hospice Wage Index/Rate Update Notice, Comorbidity Diagnosis Reminder, Quality Update
On July 27, 2012, CMS published a notice announcing that Medicare hospice rates will increase by 0.9% in FY 2013. This update is based on a 2.6% market basket increase,…
Health Law Prof Blog
Study finds link between Medicaid coverage and lower death rates
A study was just published in the New England Journal of Medicine that found Medicaid coverage lowers death rates. The researchers, from Harvard's School of Public Health, studied three states…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Catholic College Lacks Standing to Challenge ACA’s Contraception Requirement
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
Judge James E. Boasberg (D.D.C.) ruled in Belmont Abbey College v. Sebelius that a Catholic college lacked standing to sue HHS over its regulations under the Affordable Care Act that require…