Health Law

Health Law is the federal, state, and local law, rules, regulations and other jurisprudence affecting the health care industry and their application to health care patients, providers and payors, and vendors to the health care industry, including without limitation the (1) relationships among providers, payors and vendors to the health care industry and its patients; and (2) delivery of health care services; all with an emphasis on operations, regulatory and transactional legal issues.

Articles About Health Law

supreme court
Supreme Court Meets To Vote On Health Care Case

By IBTimes

The Supreme Court met Friday -- in a regular, private conference -- to vote on the health care reform law case, but their ruling won't be released until June. Here's a look at the concerns potential swing votes Chief Justice John Roberts an... (Mar 30)

MORE TOPICS: COURT, SUPREME COURT, LAWYER

Analysis: HMO investors breathe easier about health law ruling

By Reuters

Now that the Supreme Court has given a glimpse of how it will consider the healthcare overhaul, more investors in health insurance stocks are breathing easier about the eventual ruling. (Mar 30)

MORE TOPICS: BARACK OBAMA, GOLDMAN SACHS, MORGAN STANLEY, COURT, SUPREME COURT

Patients share some of the blame for often demanding that doctors do something, anything, to make them feel better, said Shannon Brownlee, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation and author of the book "Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine
Stemming the Tide of Overtreatment in U.S. Healthcare

By Reuters

A leading group of U.S. doctors is trying to tackle the costly problem of excessive medical testing, hoping to avoid more government intervention in how they practice. (Feb 16)

MORE TOPICS: ADVERTISING, NEW YORK, BACK PAIN, LAWSUIT, CANCER

House Votes to Repeal Part of Obama Health Law

By Reuters

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal a provision of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul setting up a home-care program for the elderly and disabled that regulators said was unworkable. (Feb 01)

MORE TOPICS: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

U.S. Health Care Reform Act
Obamacare and Supreme Court: Poll Says Americans Believe Justices Will Strike Insurance Mandate

By IBTimes

A January poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation said more Americans believe the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn the Affordable Care Act's insurance mandate, but will base their decisions on ideology, instead of legal analysis. (Jan 26)

MORE TOPICS: COURT, SUPREME COURT, HEALTH CARE REFORM

Healthcare educator Rainelle White (rear) checks the weight of client Norma Ferguson in the Family Van in Boston
Super Committee Should Not Be Bamboozled By Sham Medical Claims

By IBTimes

The drum beat to limit medical care for the elderly grows louder. President Barack Obama's health law reduces future funding for Medicare by over $500 billion in the next decade and shifts most of those resources to fund a vast expansion of Medicaid. (Nov 17)

MORE TOPICS: CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, BREAST CANCER, CANCER

Two McDonald"s Happy Meal with toy watches fashioned after the characters Donkey and Puss in Boots from the movie "Shrek Forever After"
McDonald's Happy Meals get apples and fewer fries

By Reuters

McDonald's Corp said on Tuesday it will soon tweak its children's Happy Meals, reducing the french fry portion by more than half and automatically adding apples to the popular meals, after coming under pressure from consumer groups to provide healthier fare. (Jul 26)

MORE TOPICS: CALIFORNIA, MANAGEMENT, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius: New Proposal For Health Insurance Marketplace

By IBTimes

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius on Friday announced three efforts she says will help states lower their share of costs for approximately nine million people who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits. (Jul 13)

President Obama
Obama Administration Lessens Rules for States' Insurance Exchanges

By IBTimes

The Obama administration pushed harder for its strict deadline of January 2013 to certify state health insurance exchanges and proposed that each exchange - showing progress - receive "conditional approval," in becoming fully operational by January 2014. (Jul 12)

UnitedHealth is expanding health insurance services in the Middle East.
U.S. gives states flexibility on insurance exchanges

By Reuters

The Obama administration proposed a framework for health insurance exchanges that gives states great flexibility in how and when they set up these open marketplaces designed to boost competition. (Jul 11)

IBTIMES PROFESSIONAL
Get more of IBTimes

Stay connected with the IBTimes using your favorite social networks and online news applications: