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By Max Mitchell | The Legal Intelligencer | October 18, 2017
"Limitless liability" is what health care providers in Pennsylvania would be exposed to if the state Supreme Court determined that UPMC could be liable for the conduct of a former drug-addicted employee who caused a hepatitis C outbreak in Kansas two years after being fired by the Pittsburgh-based hospital, a lawyer representing the hospital told the justices.
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By Lizzy McLellan | The Legal Intelligencer | October 11, 2017
A practice leader from Saul Ewing has moved to Pepper Hamilton's health sciences department.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
Plaintiff sufficiently alleged the actual or constructive knowledge element of a corporate negligence claim where he alleged that the defendant nursing home failed to adequately supervise its actual and ostensible agents and neglected to implement and enforce procedures to ensure the safety and care of its residents. The court overruled the defendants' preliminary objection.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 19, 2017
Trial court properly held that elderly parents had no legal obligation to pay for their severely autistic adult son's care in appellant's Pennsylvania facility after New Jersey department of disabilities ceased paying because the services were not rendered to parents personally, they never contracted to pay for the services, New Jersey had the most significant contacts in the controversy and the New Jersey filial support law applied, and parents experienced no personal enrichment so appellant's quantum meruit claim failed. Affirmed.
By Vasilios J. Kalogredis | September 1, 2017
On Aug. 15, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed changes to the comprehensive care for joint replacement model (CJR), cancellation of a mandatory episode payment models (EPMs) and cardiac rehabilitation (CR) incentive payment model. These were previously authorized tests to change reimbursements as to certain cardiac and joint replacement services.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 1, 2017
Having employees with religious objections to contraceptives maintain employer-provided health insurance with contraceptive coverage pursuant to the ACA's contraceptive mandate did not violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act because the mandate did not impose a substantial burden on the employees' free exercise of religion. Summary judgment affirmed.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 29, 2017
Aetna Insurance Co. is facing a class action over claims that it failed to protect the privacy of HIV patients by mailing sensitive information in see-through envelopes.
By Vasilios J. Kalogredis | August 8, 2017
On June 20, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would alter the Quality Payment Program (the new Medicare value-based reimbursement system) as required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). CMS hopes the proposed rule will simplify the Quality Payment Program, especially for small, independent, rural practices, while also ensuring fiscal sustainability and high-quality care within Medicare.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 4, 2017
Nonreligious anti-abortion organizations are not exempt from the Affordable Care Act's mandate that their health insurers cover birth control in employees' insurance plans, a federal appeals court has ruled.
By Charles Toutant | August 2, 2017
The failure of nurse Kaci Hickox to collect any money after being held by state officials for 80 hours in a tent outside a hospital, even after twice testing negative for Ebola, illustrates the difficulties of getting compensated for allegations of excessive quarantine measures.
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