Business Law Health Law Committee

Medicaid does not bar States from asserting liens against beneficiaries’ recover of medical expense damages from third-party tortfeasors. Read more

Rehabilitation center that could reasonably foresee its patient’s suicide may not assert superseding cause defense to wrongful death claim. Read more

Peer review hearing officer is not automatically disqualified by the prospect of future engagements at the same hospital. Read more

County properly withheld COVID-19 outbreak locations from news organizations because disclosure would undermine contact tracing. Read more

A federally qualified health center’s community outreach expenses to increase utilization are not reimbursable under Medi-Cal. Read more

Physician assistant’s unsupervised liposuctions and “Director of Surgery” title misled patients and was unauthorized practice of medicine. Read more

States and individuals lacked standing to challenge Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate in an effort to strike down the Act. Read more

Medical records pertaining to substance abuse treatment are protected from discovery by the patients’ right to privacy. Read more

Doctrine of primary jurisdiction, not exhaustion of remedies, warrants staying litigation to obtain a decision on issues within an agency’s expertise. Read more

Dr. Willie Goffney is a surgical oncologist who has provided services to Medicare patients since 1991. In 2005, Dr. Goffney stopped receiving reimbursement payments for his Medicare claims, Read more