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Millitary Mental Health and Memorial Day by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy With Memorial Day upon us, I thought it fitting to highlight this initiative of the United States military to study mental health risks for soldiers. According to a press re ... Read on »
Health Information, Privacy, and Innovation by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Health information law is a very exciting field.  Lawyers, doctors, and start-ups are re-thinking health care as an information industry.   I’ll be speaking on privacy and f ... Read on »
The Treatment of Neonates in Pending Legislation Permanently Reauthorizing the Best... by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Last week, the United States Senate took up debate of The Food and Drug Innovation and Safety Act, S 3187.  A similar bill, HR 5651, was voted out of the House Energy and Co ... Read on »
Professor John Jacobi in The Wall Street Journal on the New Jersey veto of Health Insurance... by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Professor John Jacobi appeared in The Wall Street Journal regarding the last minute veto by Governor Chris Christie of a bill which would have created a health insurance exc ... Read on »
Of Drug and Device and a Lack of Personal Jurisdiction by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As much as I write about medical malpractice, it seems only fair that I devote a post and direct our fair readers to the other side of the bar: The Drug and Device blog put ... Read on »
First Circuit Finds Generic Drugmaker Had State Law Duty to Stop Selling Unsafe Drug by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Earlier this month, the First Circuit surprised observers when it held, in Bartlett v. Mutual Pharmaceutical, that a state law product liability suit founded on the claim th ... Read on »
Benefit Concert for Africa Surgery in Morristown, NJ by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Dicey Riley Band To present a BENEFIT concert for Surgical Efforts in Sierra Leone, West Africa Featuring Traditional Irish and Celtic Music and Song, Plus the Bethel AME an ... Read on »
Lower Cost, But at What Cost? by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Late last month, Essex County Mental Health Association director Bob Davison went undercover to experience the current conditions at Dover Woods, a residential psychiatric f ... Read on »
Models of Patient Safety by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy If one jumbo jet crashed in the US each day for a week, we’d expect the FAA to shut down the industry until the problem was figured out. But in our health care system, rough ... Read on »
Tara Ragone on Medical Loss Ratio Rebates in New Jersey by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Seton Hall Law Research Fellow & Lecturer in Law, Tara Ragone, appeared in the award winning business publication NJBIZ regarding rebates to consumers from health insurers w ... Read on »
Recommended Reading: The FDA on Its Post-2007 Safety Ramp-Up and Barbara Evans on the Ethics of... by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The FDA has released a report — Advances in FDA’s Safety Program for Marketed Drugs — in which the agency declares that, as a result of reforms implemented following the pa ... Read on »
CIAs: OIG’s Favorite Enforcement Tool by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In an attempt to stem health care fraud, the government’s use of Corporate Integrity Agreements (CIAs) is growing. In Professor Zack Buck’s Health Care Fraud and Abuse class ... Read on »
Online Graduate Certificate Programs in Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Law and Health & Hospital... by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The next sessions for the Seton Hall Law Online Graduate Certificate Programs will commence in June, 2012. These 8-week non-degree programs are designed for individuals ... Read on »
Risperdal: Low Hanging Fruit for States with Medicaid Deficits? by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Think of it as a clarion call, a shot across the bow, or even the smell of carrion wafting towards the nostrils of bean counters and state administrators everywhere–but any ... Read on »
Ensuring that ‘Meaningful Use’ Translates to a Meaningful Experience for Providers and... by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy [Ed. Note: We are pleased to welcome Ana Liggio, Esq., to HRW. She is a health care and technology lawyer, in practice over 15 years. Prior to pursuing her LL.M. in Health L ... Read on »
Rigid, Severe Penalties of FCAs On Full Display by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy News of the $1.2 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. for their roles in marketing Risperdal during the middle of last d ... Read on »
Professor Ani Satz on ‘Making Health and Disability Law More Responsive to Lived... by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Recently, the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy hosted a fascinating talk by visiting scholar Professor Ani Satz regarding the treatment of disability within A ... Read on »
At Last, HHS Releases the Affordable Health Insurance Exchanges Rule by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On March 12, 2012, HHS finally released the long-awaited Affordable Health Insurance Exchanges final rule that was published in the Federal Register on March 27. The Afforda ... Read on »
EMTALA and the Free Rider Problem by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This tragic case may interest those who teach EMTALA: [Anna Brown] yelled from a wheelchair at St. Mary’s Health Center security personnel and Richmond Heights police office ... Read on »
Recommended Reading by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As proof that the only news in health law does not involve the Supreme Court’s consideration of the challenge to the Affordable Care Act, here are some interesting recent ar ... Read on »