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Who Pays First?: Medicaid Third-Party Liability In Florida And Virginia’S Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Programs, Alexandra M. Robbins Jan 2023

Who Pays First?: Medicaid Third-Party Liability In Florida And Virginia’S Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Programs, Alexandra M. Robbins

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

In response to an impending obstetrician shortage and medical malpractice crisis, the states of Florida and Virginia adopted no-fault birth-related neurological injury compensation programs in the 1980s. Both of these programs provide lifetime coverage for eligible children with serious birth-related neurological injuries; however, both programs treated themselves as the payer of last resort and required families to submit claims to Medicaid first based on an inaccurate interpretation of Medicaid third party-liability (“TPL”) laws and the program-enabling statutes. Both programs’ policies treating themselves as the payer of last resort not only violated Federal and State Medicaid laws, they caused harm to …


Addressing Liability And Clinical Decision Support: A Federal Government Role, Jodi G. Daniel Jan 2012

Addressing Liability And Clinical Decision Support: A Federal Government Role, Jodi G. Daniel

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


On Optimizing Ddi Alerts And Liability Under Cds: The Authors Respond, Michael D. Greenberg, M. Susan Ridgely Jan 2012

On Optimizing Ddi Alerts And Liability Under Cds: The Authors Respond, Michael D. Greenberg, M. Susan Ridgely

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Conscientious Objectors Behind The Counter: Statutory Defenses To Tort Liability For Failure To Dispense Contraceptives, Jennifer E. Spreng Jan 2008

Conscientious Objectors Behind The Counter: Statutory Defenses To Tort Liability For Failure To Dispense Contraceptives, Jennifer E. Spreng

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

No abstract provided.