Medicine & the Law

By John W. Jones, Jr., Esq. Increased federal investigation into alleged inappropriate arrangements between the pharmaceutical and medical device industries and physicians has led to ...

By Sidney S. Welch, Esq., MPH and Ashley Worrell[1] On June 28, 2012, the United States’ Supreme Court published its decision in National Federation of ...

Marilyn J. Heine, MD, president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED), practicing oncologist and emergency medicine: More than two years ago when Congress passed the ...

By Leslie D. Michelson The recent Supreme Court and public arguments on health care issues have produced a clear consensus:  Walter Cronkite was right.  More ...

By Ron Howrigon   The United States Supreme Court recently heard three days of oral arguments regarding several legal challenges to the two-year-old health care ...

By Lucia Francesca Bruno, J.D., LL.M., M.B.A. Long before the contentious passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, and the Supreme Court ...

By Joyce McLaughlin Hospitals frequently recruit physicians who are either Board Certified or “board eligible.” “Board Certified” in medicine means a physician has taken and ...

By David W Hilgers, Esq. and Sidney S. Welch, Esq. The passage of the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (“PPACA”)[1] has already had a ...

By Susan Jaffe The Obama administration Thursday unveiled final regulations detailing the new health insurance summaries that the federal health law requires plans to give to consumers ...

By Eric A. Shore, J.D. and Pia Horton Everyday your patients trust you to care for their health. Many of your patients find themselves unemployed ...