Posted in Hip on May 8th, 2013
Medicare Provider Charge Data provided by the Centers for Medicare and Madicaid Services provide hospital-specific charges for the more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals that receive Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) payments for the top 100 most frequently billed discharges, paid under Medicare based on a rate per discharge using the Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group [...]
Posted in Hip on May 1st, 2013
This study, The changing national role in health system governance. A case-based study of 11 European countries and Australia, is from European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and studies 12 countries providing an overview of recent changes in national governments’ role in the governance of health systems, focusing on efforts to reconfigure responsibilities for health [...]
Posted in Hip on Apr 25th, 2013
The U.S. Department of Justice has recently issued a revised edition of the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations. In the nine years since the protocol was initially released, there have been marked improvements in the “state of the art” for forensic medical examinations. The revised edition maintains the same standardization, quality, and best [...]
Posted in Hip on Apr 24th, 2013
Bioethics Is this cell a human being? : exploring the status of embryos, stem cells and human-animal hybrids / Antoine Suarez, Joachim Huarte, editors Euthanasia Debating euthanasia / Emily Jackson and John Keown Food Food, economics, and health / Alok Bhargava Human Rights The human right to equal access to health care / Maite San [...]
Posted in Hip on Apr 17th, 2013
A study by the Society of Actuaries found an overall increase in health care costs but that the increseas or in some cases decreases will vary widely by state. The study is found here.
Posted in Hip on Apr 16th, 2013
From the summary: “Over the past 10 years, 278 new drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to data from the InnoThink Center for Research in Biomedical Innovation. One hundred-and-seventy-five of them, or 63% of those approvals, came from 41 companies that had at least two new drugs approved during that [...]
Posted in Hip on Apr 15th, 2013
Food Food regulation : law, science, policy, and practice / Neal D. Fortin Managing food safety and hygiene : governance and regulation as risk management / Bridget M. Hutter, with research assistance from Clive Jones Salt, sugar, fat : how the food giants hooked us / Michael Moss Occupational Safety Occupational safety and health law [...]
Posted in Hip on Apr 15th, 2013
Affordable Care Act Leonard, Elizabeth Weeks, Susan Scholz and Raquel Meyer Alexander. Employers united: an empirical analysis of corporate political speech in the wake of the Affordable Care Act. 38 J. Corp. L. 217-257 (2013). Shapiro, Ilya. Like Eastwood talking to a chair: the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Obamacare ruling. 17 [...]
Posted in Hip on Apr 15th, 2013
The Gosnell Grand Jury Report underlies the prosecution of Gosnell and others in the intentional death of living babies born after a botched abortion and the death of one of his patients. From the Report: “This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and [...]
Posted in Hip on Apr 12th, 2013
This CLE program sponsored by the New York State Bar Association will cover who may be liable under the rules and how to structure their businesses to avoid liability. For more information click here. Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 Place: Concierge Conference Center 780 Third Avenue (at 48th Street) New York, NY 10017 (212) [...]
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