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National Law Journal

The Crowell & Moring Paralegal Who Made History Refereeing at the Paris Olympics

"The commitment that we have as water polo referees is so big, and then it's like I'm billing 2,000 hours plus a year," said Jenn McCall, a health care recovery specialist at Crowell.
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The Legal Intelligencer

OIG Responds Favorably to an Arrangement for Pharmaceutical Company's Payment of Travel Expenses

The opinion concludes that although the proposed arrangement would generate prohibited remuneration under the AKS (if the requisite intent were present), the OIG would not impose administrative sanctions on the requestor; and the arrangement does not generate prohibited remuneration under the beneficiary inducements CMP.
12 minute read

Corporate Counsel

As Organ-Transplant Industry Draws Scrutiny, FDA Alleges Eye Bank Accepted Donors With Sepsis

The Food and Drug Administration said five donors either had a sepsis diagnosis or showed clinical signs of sepsis. But the Indiana Lions Eye Bank countered that blood cultures from all five tested negative. "There is still only one gold standard for the diagnosis of sepsis, and that is a positive blood culture," it said.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Access to Clients' Medical Records—Hopes From the Cures Act Reconsidered

If you gave up on doing HITECH requests and went back to sending requests to providers with the patient's direction to send the records right to you, following up relentlessly, getting records, and paying the hard-to-stomach cost for electronic records; read on.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

NJ Supreme Court Rules on Hospital Exclusive Contracts

On April 16, the New Jersey Supreme Court resolved a longstanding open issue as to whether a hospital's bylaws or course of conduct created a contract between the hospital and its medical staff, which in turn would give rise to an implied duty of good faith and fair dealing, and a right to monetary damages for breach of contract.
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

UPHELD: Texas Law Banning Gender Medical Care for Trans Children

"We have never questioned the Legislature's constitutional authority to regulate medical treatments," Justice Rebeca Huddle wrote for the majority in upholding the law banning gender dysphoria medical care for minors.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Appellate Division Rejects Hospitals' Unconstitutional Takings Challenge to Charity Care Statute

"After a thorough review of all plaintiffs' constitutional taking claims, we conclude that the record shows no per se taking, nor does a balancing of the Penn Central factors reveal a regulatory taking," Judge Morris G. Smith said. "We affirm the trial court's order granting defendants' motion for summary judgment against all plaintiffs."
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Supreme Court Inadvertently Posts Abortion Ruling, Report States

According to Bloomberg, the court briefly posted a copy of its ruling in the case Moyle v. U.S. on its website and revealed that a majority has voted to dismiss Idaho's appeal to reinstate its abortion law as "improvidently granted."
8 minute read

The Recorder

Keker Lawyers Secure Win for Sutter Health After Seven-Week Alameda Trial

The plaintiffs sought more than $500 million from Sutter Health over allegations of insurance fraud, which Judge Stephen D. Kaus rejected.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Avoiding Enforcement Actions and Lawsuits From the Use of Tracking Technology on Health Care Provider Websites, Applications

Currently, Meta is facing more than 50 class action lawsuits. Moreover, Congress has begun an inquiry into telehealth companies sharing patients' answers to medical intake questions with social media providers, including Meta.
9 minute read

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