By Scott Burris News in this afternoon is that a Maine state judge has lifted the quarantine order on nurse Kaci Hickox, saying that she “currently does not show symptoms of Ebola and is therefore not infectious.” The ruling conforms to the best available scientific evidence and CDC recommendations. It also shows the importance of judicial review…
International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare Conference November 6, 2014 8:30 AM – 5 PM November 7, 2014 9 AM – 1:30 PM Harvard Law School Milstein West A 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 RSVP to rcantor@hsph.harvard.edu. Please join us as we examine litigation on sexual and reproductive rights before international courts and tribunals…
Happy Halloween! Check out the October 31st edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics.
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School collaborates with Stanford and Duke Universities to publish The Journal of Law and Biosciences (Oxford University Press), an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. JLB includes a New Developments section, comprised of brief summaries and commentary on recent legislation, regulation, and case law…
By Michelle Meyer [Author’s Note: Addendum and updates (latest: 4 pm, 10/31) added below.] A physician shall… be honest in all professional interactions, and strive to report physicians… engaging in fraud or deception, to appropriate entities. —AMA Principles of Medical Ethics This is a troubling series of news reports about deception and defiance on the part of…
By Deborah Cho I was excited to learn of an article in a recent issue of American Family Physician on the topic of caring for Asian American patients. The contents of the article are worth a read (most of it is available here), but it generally states that medical providers should consider the Asian American health…
HLS Health Law Workshop: Matt Lamkin November 3, 2014 5:00 PMGriswold Hall, Room 110 (Harvard Law School)1525 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map here.] Download the paper: “Regulating Identity: Medical Regulation as Social Control” Matt Lamkin is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law. He previously was a Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for…
As the backlog of Medicare appeals indicates, Medicare claimants are seeking many more hearings than we can currently provide. The mismatch makes a fundamental question particularly acute: Why do we hold hearings to review Medicare coverage decisions in the first place? It’s a question worth asking. The Affordable Care Act mandated that denials of private…
One option for dealing with the backlog of Medicare claims waiting for a hearing is to settle them. That’s up to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, not the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals that actually oversees the process, so it’s not an administrative fix that the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals…
By Wendy Parmet The heartfelt letter issued by Kaci Hickox, the nurse being held in quarantine in a New Jersey hospital, calls into question the surprising decision by Governors Christie and Cuomo to quarantine health care workers returning from West Africa. It also shines a spotlight on the all-important, but largely unexplored, question of how…
