Business Law Health Law Committee

A city may not administer ambulance services after delegating those services to the surrounding county. Read more

Under the Knox-Keene Act, healthcare service plans must reimburse hospitals for emergency medical services to their enrollees based on either an agreed-upon contractual rate or the “reasonable and customary value” of the services. Read more

MICRA limitations period bars personal injury action claiming patient fell because ER nurses negligently failed to accompany her to the restroom. Read more

Federally qualified health center must report nonreimbursable costs that “materially” relate to clinic operations to allocate overhead costs. Read more

A durable power of attorney authorizes an attorney-in-fact to execute a residential care facility’s stand-alone arbitration agreement. Read more

Hospitals are not required by consumer-protection laws to make price disclosures beyond what state and federal healthcare laws mandate Read more

Proper patient referral disclosures do not excuse noncompliance with worker’s compensation statute prohibiting a physician’s financially interested referrals Read more

Courts reviewing administrative decisions must take into account the standard of proof in the underlying proceeding. Read more

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