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Summary Of Morrison V. Health Plan Of Nev., 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 55, Sean Daly Jul 2014

Summary Of Morrison V. Health Plan Of Nev., 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 55, Sean Daly

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The Court determined whether a Medicare beneficiary's state common law negligence claim against his private health insurance company, through which he is receiving his Medicare benefits, is preempted by the federal Medicare Act.


I Need A Doctor: A Critique Of Medicare Financing Of Graduate Medical Education, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2014

I Need A Doctor: A Critique Of Medicare Financing Of Graduate Medical Education, Stacey A. Tovino

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In its broadest sense, this Article examines the complex relationship between population booms, doctor shortages, and United States government financing of graduate medical education (GME). More specifically, this Article argues that current rules governing the calculation of Medicare payments to teaching hospitals for the costs of GME are based on cost, population, and other data that are no longer relevant. As applied, these formulas discriminate in favor of the nation's oldest teaching hospitals, located in New England and the Middle Atlantic, and against current and future teaching hospitals located in growing population centers, especially regions in the South and West. …


Concussions And Sports: Introduction, David Orentlicher Jan 2014

Concussions And Sports: Introduction, David Orentlicher

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The Changing Legal Climate For Physician Aid In Dying, David Orentlicher Jan 2014

The Changing Legal Climate For Physician Aid In Dying, David Orentlicher

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Health Care Reform And Efforts To Encourage Healthy Behavior By Individuals, David Orentlicher Jan 2014

Health Care Reform And Efforts To Encourage Healthy Behavior By Individuals, David Orentlicher

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Lost In The Shuffle: How Health And Disability Laws Hurt Disordered Gamblers, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2014

Lost In The Shuffle: How Health And Disability Laws Hurt Disordered Gamblers, Stacey A. Tovino

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Gambling disorder is not a legally sympathetic health condition. Health insurance policies and plans have long excluded treatment for gambling disorder from health insurance coverage. Individuals with gambling disorder who seek disability income insurance benefits from public and private disability income insurers also tend not to be successful in their claims. In addition, federal and state antidiscrimination laws currently exclude individuals with gambling disorder from disability discrimination protections. This Article is the first law review article to challenge the legal treatment of individuals with gambling disorder by showing how health insurance and antidiscrimination laws hurt problem gamblers. Using neuroscience, economics, …


Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2014

Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino

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Grateful patient fundraising, defined as the solicitation of philanthropic donations by health care providers from current and former patients, raises a number of legal and ethical issues. Elsewhere, I detailed the confidentiality issues raised by the use and disclosure of patient identifiable information by hospital development officers, major gifts officers, institutionally-related foundations, and commercial fundraisers, and proposed corrections to federal health information confidentiality regulations to better balance the competing aims of health care philanthropy and health information confidentiality. In this Article, I analyze several outstanding issues raised by physician involvement in grateful patient fundraising. That is, physicians who solicit philanthropic …


Silence Is Golden . . . Except In Health Care Philanthropy, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2014

Silence Is Golden . . . Except In Health Care Philanthropy, Stacey A. Tovino

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Aging Populations And Physician Aid In Dying: The Evolution Of State Government Policy, David Orentlicher Jan 2014

Aging Populations And Physician Aid In Dying: The Evolution Of State Government Policy, David Orentlicher

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Professor David Orentlicher explores the evolution of physician assisted suicide from illegal taboo to the passage of Death with Dignity legislation and caselaw.


Employer-Based Health Care Insurance: Not So Exceptional After All, David Orentlicher Jan 2014

Employer-Based Health Care Insurance: Not So Exceptional After All, David Orentlicher

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The Future Of The Affordable Care Act: Protecting Economic Health More Than Physical Health?, David Orentlicher Jan 2014

The Future Of The Affordable Care Act: Protecting Economic Health More Than Physical Health?, David Orentlicher

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A Restatement Of Health Care Law, David Orentlicher Jan 2014

A Restatement Of Health Care Law, David Orentlicher

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