HLS Health Law Workshop: Thomas Greaney April 6, 2015 5:00 PM Griswold Hall, Room 110 (Harvard Law School) 1525 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map here.] Download the paper: “Medicare Advantage, Accountable Care Organizations, and Traditional Medicare: Synchronization or Collision?” Thomas L. Greaney is Chester A. Myers Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Health Law Studies at St. Louis University School…
By Zack Buck The newest chapter in the legal drama involving Johnson & Johnson, Inc. (“J&J”) and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutical, Inc. (and a subsidiary previously known as Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) (“Janssen”) was written late last month. Specifically at issue was whether or not the alleged off-label marketing of its blockbuster antipsychotic Risperdal violated state…
By Rachel Sachs Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v. Burwell, and the Justices seemed split on the central issue of whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) permits health insurance subsidies to flow to citizens of states that have chosen not to establish their own insurance exchanges. Trying to predict the outcome…
HLS Health Law Workshop: Liran Einav February 9, 2015 5:00 PMGriswold Hall, Room 110 (Harvard Law School)1525 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map here.] Download the Presentation: “The Response of Drug Expenditure to Non-Linear Contract Design: Evidence from Medicare Part D” (co-authors, Amy Finkelstein and Paul Schrimpf) Liran Einav is Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His current research focuses on empirical work…
By Kelsey Berry Whereas “allocation of scarce resources” is a buzz phrase that inspires a great deal of distress and desire for good ethical argument, “waste avoidance” strikes us as a relatively uncontroversial method for containing health care spending. Perhaps this is because rationing implies a trade-off between two individuals, each of whom have the potential to…
HLS Health Law Workshop: Thomas Greaney February 2, 2015 5:00 PMGriswold Hall, Room 110 (Harvard Law School)1525 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map here.] Download the paper: “Medicare Advantage, Accountable Care Organizations, and Traditional Medicare: Synchronization or Collision?” Thomas L. Greaney is Chester A. Myers Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Health Law Studies at St. Louis University School of Law. Greaney…
[Cross-posted from the Center for Law, Health and Society Blog at Georgia State University] By Erin C. Fuse Brown Last month, NPR and ProPublica reported a story that would be shocking if it weren’t sadly familiar about how nonprofit hospitals like Heartland Regional Medical Center in Missouri are suing their patients and garnishing their wages…
By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at HealthLawProfs] In announcing the federal government’s approval of Indiana’s Medicaid expansion, Governor Mike Pence invoked common sense in defending his insistence that beneficiaries shoulder a share of their health care premiums. According to Pence, “It’s just common sense that when people take greater ownership of their health care, they make…
By Rachel Sachs Last week, the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ACA’s maintenance-of-effort provision against a constitutional challenge brought by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. The court’s opinion has received relatively little media attention, but it should be of interest to all in the health policy space. Its post-NFIB v.…
By Allison Hoffman[Cross-posted from Health Affairs Blog] The 50th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid offers an opportunity to reflect on how U.S. social policy has conceived of the problem of long-term care. Social insurance programs aim to create greater security—typically financial security—for American families (See Note 1). Programs for long-term care, however, have had mixed results.…
