Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

PCPA argues that its program is “agnostic” to the treatments selected independently by a patient’s medical provider, given that a beneficiary may receive assistance for any one of a broad range of drug and non-drug cancer services after a course of treatment that independently has been approved by the patient’s medical doctor. 2, 2015). [10]

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Bill of Health

JUNE 13, 2022

As medical care advanced — and categories like “ brain death ” emerged — doctors found themselves facing challenging new dilemmas and old ones more often. By 2002, approximately 79 percent of U.S. In the 1970s, the medical community was shaken by several high-profile lawsuits alleging unethical behavior by physicians.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 20, 2022

Jason received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Butler University in 2002 and has over 20 years of diverse industry experience.

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YouCompli

APRIL 13, 2022

The doctor also agreed to be excluded from participation in any federal healthcare program for three years followed by an OIG Integrity Agreement for another three years. A cardiologist and his practice paid over $2 million and released claim to another $5.3 Clearly, improper beneficiary inducements are still a compliance risk.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

After a 2002 National Institutes of Health research study linked high-dose HRT pills to an increased risk of breast cancer and cardiovascular disease, the FDA instituted the boxed warning and HRT prescriptions dropped substantially. Our doctors can’t even say the word to us, let alone walk us through the journey.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

That core set of services covers consultations with doctors, tests and examinations, along with inpatient hospital care. Americans have relatively less access to a doctor when care is needed, the OECD report revealed. In addition to a relatively high level of avoidable mortality in America, the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This underpins Black peoples’ trust-gaps in America for many institutions, including health care (the system, doctors and hospitals), schools, the police and courts, shown in the fourth chart. Many more Black adults than White adults perceived these gaps in the Undefeated study.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. The table arrays data the researchers analyzed from 2002 to 2016, identifying patterns of six types of medical services used by race and age group. health care.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 28, 2025

Chinas active concealment of SARS emergence in 2002-3 contributed to its expansion. In the 2008 hepatitis crisis in Nevada, doctors and nurses failed to report cases due to fears of whistleblower retaliation. Delayed reporting from Guinea, and then Liberia and Sierra Leone, enabled the spread of Ebola across West Africa in 2014.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If details of treatment for SUD are withheld from doctors, there is a risk that a patient may be prescribed opioids when they are in recovery. When the original Privacy Rule Final Rule was published in 2002, Covered Entities were given a year to make systems, policies, and procedures HIPAA compliant. This is unlikely.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 4, 2023

2002). “[I]t is not the role of a federal court to expand state law in ways not foreshadowed by state precedent.” Taking the good doctor first, In re Philips Recalled CPAP, Bi-Level Pap, & Mechanical Ventilator Products Litigation , 2023 WL 7019667 (Sp. Ford Motor Co. , 3d 661, 680 (3d Cir. City of Philadelphia v. Beretta U.S.A.

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Drug & Device Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

357 (2002); United States v. That’s a significant step forward, since it aligns the FDA’s view of permissible science more closely to what doctors (and Medicare) actually rely on in clinical situations. E.g. , Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. , 552 (2011); Thompson v. Western States Medical Center , 535 U.S. Caronia , 703 F.3d FDA , 119 F.

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Drug & Device Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

435, 436 (2002). Even worse is standing based on the “considerable mental and emotional stress on emergency-room doctors,” purported injury from “divert[ing] time and resources away from their ordinary practice to treat [adverse reaction] patients, and even the possibility of increased malpractice insurance costs. Gore ,” 35 Ind.

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Drug & Device Law

AUGUST 28, 2023

435, 436 (2002). Even worse is standing based on the “considerable mental and emotional stress on emergency-room doctors,” purported injury from “divert[ing] time and resources away from their ordinary practice to treat [adverse reaction] patients, and even the possibility of increased malpractice insurance costs. Gore ,” 35 Ind.

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Drug & Device Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

3, 2002) (to be published), the California Court of Appeal held that federal law preempts state law failure-to-warn claims alleging that branded and generic drug manufacturers did not ensure that patients received FDA-approved Medication Guides for amiodarone, a heart medicine. In Amiodarone Cases , No. A161023, 2022 WL 16646728 (Cal.

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Drug & Device Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

4th –, 2002 WL 3696680 (6th Cir. 2002), a pelvic mesh case that made its way from years languishing in an MDL to summary judgment in the transferee court to an appeal to the Sixth Circuit. 2002 WL 3696680, *5. It focused squarely on the doctor. 2002 WL 3696680, *6. Fast forward to Thacker v. Ethicon, Inc. , — F.4th

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 13, 2022

2002), which rejected a Georgia plaintiff’s contention that a medical device manufacturer had a duty to place a warning on the product itself “that third parties should not activate the PCA pump on behalf of the patient to whom it is prescribed.” Bard, Inc. , 3d 1272 (11th Cir.

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 6, 2022

Further, “both doctors testified that they still prescribe [the drug] for patients with conditions similar to plaintiff’s condition.” June 29, 2017) (no causation where “[t]he prescribing doctors would not have changed their prescriptions based on what they now know about [the drug]”); Lord v. Schering Corp. , 2d 1140, 1148 (N.J.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 30, 2022

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. 1978), where a hypertensive patient was injured after being injected with the defendant’s drug – despite warnings that “expressly directed the doctor administering the drug to refrain from giving it to a patient with hypertension.” Best Pharmacal , 577 P.2d Robins Co. ,

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