Massachusetts has famously gotten many of the state's uninsured covered thanks to the state mandate. The "pay or play" approach taken has long seemed ripe for an ERISA pre-emption challenge (cf. the Wal-Mart case in Maryland). The program...
Topics: Health Law, Massachusetts, Universal Health Care

Robert Ambrogi tagged me with the 5 blogs & 5 blawgers meme. The idea is to list five great non-law blogs and then tag five blawgers to do the same. Here are five terrific blogs I read regularly, which skew...
Topics: Blawg, Health Law

About 15 years ago, someone I knew was active in an organization called the Society for the Prevention of Overuse of Antibiotics (or something like that). While this has long been an issue of concern, back then it seemed a...
Topics: CMS, Health Law, Hospitals, Medicare, Pay for performance

I drove home early to beat the rush this Labor Day, and was amused by Ed.'s -- that is, the anonymous Blawg Review editor's -- selection of Jamie Spencer, aka Austin DWI Lawyer, as the latest topical host. I didn't...
Topics: Blawg, Blawg Review, Blog Carnivals

The OIG released an advisory opinion today finding that a proposed block leasing arrangement between two physician group practices -- one a practice providing cancer treatment services, including IMRT, the other a urology group -- whereby the urology...
Topics: Anti-Kickback Statute, Diagnostic Imaging, Fraud and Abuse, Health Law, Medicare, OIG, Physicians, Stark