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Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Health Law, Jonathan M. Joseph, Adam R. Easterday
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Health Law, Jonathan M. Joseph, Adam R. Easterday
University of Richmond Law Review
During the past year, the Commonwealth of Virginia has experienced numerous developments in health law on all three major legal fronts-legislative, judicial, and administrative law. These developments have covered a range of health law topics, including everything from revisions to the public certificate of need process for health care facilities and the regulation of body-piercing of minors on the legislative front, to key decisions regarding the scope of the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act and the Health Care Decisions Act on the judicial front, to action on the regulatory front regarding independent external appeals ofhealth plan denials and hospice …
Medicaid Eligibility Planning For Aged Clients In Virginia, Jonathan D. Frieden
Medicaid Eligibility Planning For Aged Clients In Virginia, Jonathan D. Frieden
University of Richmond Law Review
The Medicaid program is a jointly financed federal and state assistance program established under Title XIX of the Social Security Act of 1965. The purpose of the program is to provide "federal financial assistance to States that choose to reimburse certain costs of medical treatment for needy persons." The Medicaid program's federal statutory and regulatory framework was described by Justice Powell of the United States Supreme Court as "among the most intricate ever drafted by Congress." Justice Powell added that the Act's "Byzantine construction... makes [it] 'almost unintelligible to the uninitiated." To add to these already significant difficulties, each state …