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The Three Faces Of Retainer Care: Crafting A Tailored Regulatory Response, Frank Pasquale
The Three Faces Of Retainer Care: Crafting A Tailored Regulatory Response, Frank Pasquale
Faculty Scholarship
Retainer care arrangements allow patients to pay a fee directly to a physician's office in order to obtain special access to care. Practices usually convert to retainer status by concentrating their attention on a small panel and dropping the majority of their patients. Proponents call retainer care a triumph of consumer-directed health care; opponents deride it as boutique medicine. Both sides are deploying a variety of legal tactics in order to attain their goals.
After surveying these conflicts, this article clarifies what is at stake by analyzing the three key features of retainer care: preventive care, queue-jumping, and amenity-bundling. Most …
Cooperative Federalism And Healthcare Reform: The Medicare Part D 'Clawback' Example, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
Cooperative Federalism And Healthcare Reform: The Medicare Part D 'Clawback' Example, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
Scholarly Works
This symposium article recounts recent litigation by several states over a provision of the Medicare Modernization Act Part D prescription drug benefit: The clawback, which requires states to pay the a potentially substantial portion of new federal program. I then examine the unique federalism implications of the clawback for ongoing state and federal health reform initiatives.
In spring 2006, several states petitioned the United States Supreme Court for original jurisdiction to hear a challenge to one provision of the new Medicare Part D prescription drug law. The federal government, while taking over prescription drug coverage for dually eligible beneficiaries, required …
Will Medicare Wither On The Vine? How Congress Has Advantaged Medicare Advantage—And What’S A Level Playing Field Anyway?, Robert A. Berenson, Melissa A. Goldstein
Will Medicare Wither On The Vine? How Congress Has Advantaged Medicare Advantage—And What’S A Level Playing Field Anyway?, Robert A. Berenson, Melissa A. Goldstein
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Medicare: What Are The Real Problems? What Contribution Can Law Make To Real Solutions?, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Medicare: What Are The Real Problems? What Contribution Can Law Make To Real Solutions?, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans For “Institutionalized Individuals”: What Advantage To Enrollment?, Alissa Eden Halperin, Patricia Nemore, Vicki Gottlich, Toby Edelman
Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans For “Institutionalized Individuals”: What Advantage To Enrollment?, Alissa Eden Halperin, Patricia Nemore, Vicki Gottlich, Toby Edelman
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Beyond Drug Coverage: The Cumulative Effect Of Privatization Reforms In The Medicare Modernization Act, Robert I. Field, Richard G. Stefanacci
Beyond Drug Coverage: The Cumulative Effect Of Privatization Reforms In The Medicare Modernization Act, Robert I. Field, Richard G. Stefanacci
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Medicare After The Medicare Modernization Act, Senator David Durenberger
Medicare After The Medicare Modernization Act, Senator David Durenberger
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
The New Infrastructure Of Medicare, Thomas L. Greaney
The New Infrastructure Of Medicare, Thomas L. Greaney
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of The Medicare Modernization Act’S Contractor Reform On Fee-For-Service Medicare, Susan Bartlett Foote
The Impact Of The Medicare Modernization Act’S Contractor Reform On Fee-For-Service Medicare, Susan Bartlett Foote
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
No abstract provided.