Guest Post by Erin C. Fuse Brown Nick Bagley has written a great post at the Incidental Economist responding to Elisabeth Rosenthal’s recent article in the NY Times on out-of-network emergency physician billing. This phenomenon arises when a patient goes to an in-network hospital, but the physicians staffing the emergency room are out-of-network. As a…
A Conversation with the HHS Office of the Inspector General Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 3018, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Please join the Petrie-Flom Center for a conversation with the Boston office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Office…
The Health Affairs blog recently published an important write-up of the status of safety net ACOs. Therein, authors James Maxwell, Michael Bailit, Rachel Toby and Christine Barron offer five “key observations regarding emerging safety-net ACOs and suggest broad policy implications” which are drawn from what appears to be a fairly extensive research project including “site…
HLS Health Law Workshop: Benjamin Roin September 29, 2014 5:00 PM Griswold Hall, Room 110 (Harvard Law School) 1525 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map here.] Download the Paper: Solving the Problem of New Uses by Creating Incentives for Private Industry to Repurpose Off-Patent Drugs Benjamin N. Roin is Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School…
By Diana R. H. Winters [Cross-posted at HealthLawProf blog.] Yesterday was a big day in the fight against antibiotic resistance. The White House released an Executive Order and a National Strategy document on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report on antibiotic resistance, and the National…
HLS Health Law Workshop: Thomas McGuire September 22, 2014 5:00 PM Griswold Hall, Room 110 (Harvard Law School) 1525 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map here.] Download the Paper: Do ‘Reverse Payment’ Settlements of Brand-Generic Patent Disputes in the Pharmaceutical Industry Constitute an Anticompetitve Pay for Delay? Thomas G. McGuire, PhD, is a professor of health…
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Post-Trial Responsibilities: Ethics and Implementation Thursday, September 18, 2014 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East AB, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave. The conference is free and open to the public, but due to limited seating, registration is required to attend. Please register here. The term “post-trial access” is used broadly to connote a wide range…
A Conversation with the HHS Office of the Inspector General Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 3018, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Please join the Petrie-Flom Center for a conversation with the Boston office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Office…
