By Daniels Porco & Lusardi, LLP | Published December 29, 2017 | Posted in Health Care Law | Tagged Tags: Health Care Law | Comments Off on Regulatory Processes Ongoing Shifting In Health Care Industry
Given the bottom line linked with human lives and patient safety, it is hardly surprising that the health care realm is one of the most tightly regulated industries in the world. In the United States, of course, it is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that plays an especially close and exacting rule in ensuring Read More
Read MoreConscientious health care providers across New York — doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians and others — routinely think about care quality and how to best ensure that their patients are receiving it. While doing so, though, they are also focused on an additional matter these days that has nothing to do with patient outcomes and Read More
Read MoreIf there is one organization viewed most widely as a friend to baby boomers and America’s senior population generally, it is perhaps AARP. That entity — the American Association of Retired Persons — is a nonprofit and self-described nonpartisan group that advocates for the country’s senior demographic on relevant issues. AARP additionally provides an array Read More
Read MoreWould-be controls sought to be applied to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs underscore the growing degree of regulatory scrutiny being faced by medical actors across the country. As we have noted in some past blog posts, that scrutiny is always intense, with the medical realm being perhaps the most closely overseen industry in the Read More
Read MoreHealth care “is complicated,” stresses a recent New York Times article. And, notes that piece, a potential new industry player might soon be coming to grips with just how utterly complex the hoops and hurdles relevant to that huge chunk of the economy can be. Notwithstanding the regulatory exactions — authored by local, state and Read More
Read MoreA recent study has shown that several states have expanded or enhanced their Medicaid benefits this year, with several planning to do so next year. The increased benefits were primarily for mental health treatment and substance abuse. Some of the other treatments that saw expanded benefits include telemedicine, dental care, oral contraceptives, and cancer screenings. Read More
Read MoreThere is a strong reason why a New York doctor or physician’s assistant might want to turn immediately for help to a proven doctors’ rights law firm following receipt of an adverse communication — indeed, virtually any communication — from the New York Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC). In fact, there are lots of Read More
Read MoreDaniels, Porco & Lusardi, LLP, is a New York health care law firm that traces its roots back decades and has collective on-point experience over relevant client matters that spans well more than a century. As such, the firm’s attorneys candidly know a thing or two about the close regulatory scrutiny that health care-related businesses Read More
Read MoreA firm of Johnson & Johnson’s stature — and, frankly, that makes for a decidedly short list of players in the pantheon of global companies — knows all about stark business risks and attendant downsides. In J&J’s case, company-directed lawsuits are a recurrent reality, especially given Johnson & Johnson’s huge presence in the health care Read More
Read MoreThe question is simple and eminently straightforward, to wit: Should nursing home administrators in New York and across the country be able to require prospective patients to agree to mandatory arbitration to resolve disputes as a prerequisite to home admittance, thereby surrendering their right to litigate a contested matter in court before a judge and Read More
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