Health Law

Arguably no other area of interdisciplinary law affects the daily lives of the general public and, in turn, your clients, more than health law. Moreover, healthcare has become big business with the rising cost of quality medical care, prescription drug coverage, and the need for long-term health care solutions for an aging population. Legal matters frequently arise from the denial of Social Security benefits to the maze of options available for small businesses that are required to provide healthcare insurance coverage to their employees. Click on the links below to also learn about how to better represent your clients seeking Medicare coverage or how to make your company’s health benefits work for its employees.

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Fact Sheet on the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Child Support Enforcement

The following summary outlines HCFA's Child Support Enforcement policy under Medicaid and CHIP. The substance of the fact sheet explains that under separate State CHIP programs, there are no federal requirements. Under Medicaid CHIP expansions, the ...
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2004: An Active Year in Canadian Environmental Law

The year 2004 has proven to be another active year for environmental law in Canada, which continues to develop in response to international and domestic influences. A noteworthy example of an international event with potentially far-reaching ...
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Analysis of the New Requirements for Dietary Supplement Labels

For decades, the Food and Drug Administration regulated dietary supplements as foods, in most circumstances, to ensure that they were safe and wholesome, and that their labeling was truthful and not misleading. An important facet of ensuring safety ...
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Anatomical Gifts

An anatomical gift is a donation of organs and tissues. Advancements in medicine have now made it possible to transplant twenty-five different human organs and tissues, including corneas, heart, liver, kidney, lungs, pancreas, bone and skin ...
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Anti-Kickback Act Safe Harbor Provisions Finalized

The federal anti-kickback statute, 42 USC '1320-a7(b), affects a vast array of business relationships in the health care industry. Broadly speaking, the anti-kickback statute prohibits payments or remunuration to any person in return for the ...
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Areas of Career Specialization: Health Law

In our column of July 30, 1998, we explored the many aspects of health law, which is really a variety of legal specialties practiced in a highly regulated industry that depends for a substantial part of its revenues upon such government programs as ...
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Arent Fox Alerts: The Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Refinement Act

Note: This alert is also available in Adobe PDF format here The Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Refinement Act: Health Care Policy at the Cross Roads. With the dust having begun to settle following the passage of a sweeping law on November 29 ...
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Beware: New Federal Brownfields Legislation is not a Panacea for Urban Blight?

Brownfields, those abandoned, polluted tracts of urban land have gotten a boost from recent federal legislation. While many states have had "brownfields initiatives" legislation designed to encourage redevelopment of brownfield properties for many ...
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Beware Of Parents Bearing Gifts

Under present law, people who gift their property in order to qualify for Medicaid Benefits could be subject to a temporary disqualification if it were shown that the gifting was done for the purpose of securing Medicaid Benefits. Effective January ...
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Board of Medicine Splits Hairs Over Split Fees

In its ongoing attempt to identify and dissuade fee-splitting among physicians, the Florida Board of Medicine (the "Board") has issued a controversial declaratory statement which could have far-reaching implications in the employment of ...
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