Alabama high court upholds nursing home arbitration agreement that daughter signed
Apr 14, 2010
The Alabama Supreme Court recently ordered the estate of a woman injured during her stay at a nursing home to settle its dispute through arbitration. It determined that the woman “passively permitted”...
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BREAKING (Updated): High Court grills attorneys over worker COVID vaccination mandates (live)
By
Kimberly Marselas
James M. Berklan
Jan 07, 2022
The Supreme Court should issue a stay and allow a federal vaccine mandate for healthcare workers to go into effect immediately because “any delay in implementing that requirement would cause preventable...
Christmas vacation or no, these ‘gifts’ kept on coming
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 05, 2022
There’s a pit of desperation of sorts that normally envelops most journalists around holiday periods. With few folks working in government or corporate offices, important decisions and developments sometimes...
Highest Court takes a pass on MedPAC-replacement case
By
John Hall
Apr 01, 2015
Attorneys working to abolish the Independent Payment Advisory Board vowed Tuesday to fight the IPAB’s first board action, whenever it might come. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear...
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Sep 09, 2016
Older, sicker patients may bring penalties in bundled payment programs … Company that stopped employees from joining together in legal actions asks Supreme Court for review … Most seniors unlikely...
Nursing homes can’t carve out billing, collections in arbitration agreements, AR Supreme Court...
By
Tim Mullaney
Sep 16, 2014
A nursing home arbitration agreement largely reserved the provider’s rights to sue residents while limiting residents’ legal options, causing it to fail a “mutual obligation” requirement,...
Gorsuch may be able to weigh in on healthcare policy — eventually, experts say
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Apr 11, 2017
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s influence on healthcare policy may be initially limited, one expert predicted following his swearing in on Monday.
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, Dec. 21
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 21, 2021
Healthcare worker, OSHA vaccine mandates headed to Supreme Court … Stroke rates dip, N. America’s mortality among lowest … Omicron is spreading fast, infecting the vaccinated, WHO reports … Widely...