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Masthead, Volume 28 (2018) Jan 2018

Masthead, Volume 28 (2018)

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Countering Pay-For-Performance's Unintended Consequences By Rethinking The Physician's Duty To Disclose, Mariah Dick Jan 2018

Countering Pay-For-Performance's Unintended Consequences By Rethinking The Physician's Duty To Disclose, Mariah Dick

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

The article highlights the features of the U.S. Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and identify those attributes that make it vulnerable to the same types of unintended behaviors that have plagued pay-for-performance models in other industries. Topics discussed include unintended consequences associated with pay-for-performance in non-health care industries; physician disclosure standards; and need of laws for patient-centered care and patient autonomy.


Health Matrix, 2018 Jan 2018

Health Matrix, 2018

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.


Health Care Held Ransom: Modifications To Data Breach Security & The Future Of Health Care Privacy Protection, Ryan M. Krisby Jan 2018

Health Care Held Ransom: Modifications To Data Breach Security & The Future Of Health Care Privacy Protection, Ryan M. Krisby

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

The article highlights the need of modification in the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as the federal data breach security regulation fails to adequately protect patient data. Topics discussed include data breach security under HIPAA; need of modifications that address these inadequacies concerning ransomware; and actions by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to provide an impetus for healthcare organizations to carry out data security modifications.


Make America Discriminate Again? Why Hobby Lobby's Expansion Of Rfra Is Bad Medicine For Transgender Health Care, Alexis M. Florczak Jan 2018

Make America Discriminate Again? Why Hobby Lobby's Expansion Of Rfra Is Bad Medicine For Transgender Health Care, Alexis M. Florczak

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

The article highlights the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in "Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc." which held for-profit corporations could be exempt from the Affordable Care Act's (ACA)contraceptive mandate because of their sincerely held religious beliefs. Topics discussed include ACA Nondiscrimination or Civil Rights provision provides valuable protections to transgender individuals; and Department of Health and Human Services' further guidance on the ACA's provision.


Teaching Bioethics: The Role Of Empathy & Humility In The Teaching And Practice Of Law, Barbara A. Noah Jan 2018

Teaching Bioethics: The Role Of Empathy & Humility In The Teaching And Practice Of Law, Barbara A. Noah

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

The article discusses how bioethics education integrates ideas from ethics, law, science, and public policy with the goal of solving problems associated with the delivery of medical care. Topics discussed include Torts and various health law courses; American legal education's multi-tiered approach to teach students about law; and role of empathy and humility in the teaching and practice of law.


Examining Nontherapeutic Circumcision, Stephen R. Munzer Jan 2018

Examining Nontherapeutic Circumcision, Stephen R. Munzer

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

The article argues that male minors have a moral anticipatory right-in-trust not to be circumcised without a medical indication. Topics discussed include ethical, political, and intellectual persuasions of children's rights, parental rights, religious freedom; moral implications to circumcise male minors without a medical indication; and moral rights of male minors


Needles, Haystacks, And Next-Generation Genetic Sequencing, Teneille R. Brown Jan 2018

Needles, Haystacks, And Next-Generation Genetic Sequencing, Teneille R. Brown

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

Genetic testing is becoming more frequent and the results more complex. Not infrequently, genetic testing conducted for one purpose reveals information about other features of the genome that may be of clinical significance. These unintended findings have been referred to as "incidental" or "secondary" findings. In 2013, the American College of Medical Genetics ("ACMG") recommended that clinical laboratories inform people if their genetic analyses indicate that they have certain secondary mutations. These mutations were selected because they probably cause a serious disease, which is treatable, and may go undetected. The ACMG's recommendations galvanized critical responses by the genetics and ethics …


Different But Same: A Call For A Joint Pro-Active Regulation Of Cross-Border Egg And Surrogacy Markets, Sharon Bassan Jan 2018

Different But Same: A Call For A Joint Pro-Active Regulation Of Cross-Border Egg And Surrogacy Markets, Sharon Bassan

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

The article examines the need of a pro-active regulation of cross-border egg and surrogacy markets. Topics discussed include ways to regulate surrogacy market failures; conduct of both cross-border markets and the main failures that raise the need for regulation in each market; and minimalistic and a pro-active approach to regulate the markets.


Shining City On A Hill At The Edge Of Tomorrow: Crispr-Cas9, Dickey-Wicker, And The Inner Space Race, Zachary A. Zalewski Jan 2018

Shining City On A Hill At The Edge Of Tomorrow: Crispr-Cas9, Dickey-Wicker, And The Inner Space Race, Zachary A. Zalewski

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

The article highlights federal government funding of Targeted Genomic Editing (TGE) experimentation on human embryos, and recommends additional funding to accelerate scientific development and inquiry. Topics discussed include background of TGE, emphasizing CRISPR-Cas9 technology; risk of an emerging knowledge gap in this field; and legitimate concerns about what kinds of research are in the public and national interest.


The Implications Of Marijuana Legalization On The Prevalence And Severity Of Schizophrenia, Samantha M. Caspar, Artem M. Joukov Jan 2018

The Implications Of Marijuana Legalization On The Prevalence And Severity Of Schizophrenia, Samantha M. Caspar, Artem M. Joukov

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

The article discusses how regulation is vital to protect the small proportion of the population that will develop schizophrenia from marijuana use. Topics discussed include marijuana's effects on a user's psyche; triggers and symptoms of schizophrenia; and need to legalize marijuana for people who are at least twenty-five years old or who have been cleared by a psychologist.


Witch Doctors, Zombies, And Oracles: Rethinking Health In America, Ali S. Khan Jan 2018

Witch Doctors, Zombies, And Oracles: Rethinking Health In America, Ali S. Khan

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

To the extent we can even refer to an American healthcare "system," it functions brilliantly ... to make money. The system is designed to reward executives or major shareholders of pharmaceutical & health insurance companies, healthcare facilities, and related entities. With a rapidly aging population, healthcare will soon surpass a fifth of our economy. Of course, the American healthcare system does not function brilliantly when one considers the perspective of patients and over-extended primary care providers. Prices are growing faster than inflation or wages, healthcare is twice as costly as other comparable nations, and one third is a result of …


The Broken Medicare Appeals System: Failed Regulatory Solutions And The Promise Of Federal Litigation, Greer Donley Jan 2018

The Broken Medicare Appeals System: Failed Regulatory Solutions And The Promise Of Federal Litigation, Greer Donley

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

The Medicare Appeals System is broken. For years, the System has been unable to accommodate a growing number of appeals. The result is a backlog so large that even if no new appeals were filed, it would take the System a decade or more to empty. Healthcare providers wait many years for their appeals to be heard before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), and because the government recoups providers' Medicare payments while they wait, the delays cause them serious financial harm. Even worse, providers are more likely than not to prevail before the ALJ, proving that the payment should never …


Screening Older Physicians For Cognitive Impairment: Justifiable Or Discriminatory?, Ilene N. Moore Jan 2018

Screening Older Physicians For Cognitive Impairment: Justifiable Or Discriminatory?, Ilene N. Moore

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

In the U.S., one out of eight practicing physicians is older than sixty-five, and many practice well into their seventies. Many commentators and healthcare organizations, concerned that aging physicians are at risk for cognitive impairment, have urged, or actually instituted, cognitive "screening" for older physicians as a means to ensure patient safety. An age-based screening program, however, should not proceed unless supported by clear evidence and not prohibited by law. This article argues that neither of these conditions applies. Singling out all older physicians for cognitive testing is empirically unjustified and legally prohibited. Furthermore, there are other means to reliably …