03.25.19
Healthcare organizations are prime targets for class action lawsuits.
Where the agency and its leadership sit within state government can enable or impede the Medicaid director’s authority to make critical decisions about strategy, services and budget.
Are you planning to attend the American Health Law Association (AHLA) annual meeting?
03.20.19
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
03.05.19
New estimates from Manatt Health indicate that Michigan’s Medicaid work requirement, scheduled to take effect January 1, 2020, could cause up to 27% of the state’s Medicaid expansion population to lose coverage within a year—an estimated 183,000 out of 680,000 people enrolled in ...
02.26.19
Lawmakers across the country are proposing legislation to stabilize the Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance market, make coverage more affordable for consumers, and improve access to care by leveraging the bargaining power and administrative savings of public programs.
02.25.19
Much of the terminology around provider networks is confusing and overlapping. Part of the confusion stems from different terminology being used in different pieces of legislation and regulations.
Given the track record of merger antitrust enforcement since 2007, parties seeking to combine entities at the same level of the healthcare supply chain have faced an increasingly difficult environment.
Colorado has addressed the opioid epidemic with an array of public and private initiatives.
Between 1999 and 2017, more than 700,000 people died from a drug overdose—with almost 400,000 of those deaths involving an opioid.