It takes a pandemic: Mental Health parity may finally have its day!
By EMILY EVANS
Emily Evans is the health policy guru at equity research company HedgeEye. She sends out these reports in emails to her clients regularly but (since I asked nicely) she allowed me to publish this one from late last week on THCB. You can catch Emily in person on the “How Much Are These Companies Really Worth? The IPO & SPAC Panel” at Policies|Techies|VCs–What’s Next for Health Care, the conference Jess Damassa & I are chairing on September 7-8-9-10 — Matthew Holt
Politics. President Biden is going to have more important things to do this week than worry about the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID-19 Emily Evans Hedgeye masks Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Making Sense of the Novo Nordisk-Walmart Partnership to Sell Some Discounted Insulin Analogues
On June 29, 2021, Walmart Inc. and the American business unit of Novo Nordisk A/S (which is based just outside of Princeton, New Jersey known as Novo Nordisk Inc.) dropped what was intended to be a news bombshell coming just as the ADA Scientific Sessions was coming to a close. In fact, the insulin makers had hardly any big news coming from the ADA Scientific Sessions themselves this year (in fact, Novo Nordiskacquired a UK-based company known as Ziylo in 2018 to use its technology to try and develop glucose-responsive insulin, but it still has a long while before it is ready for commercialization ... if ever), becaus...
Source: Scott's Web Log - July 15, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Aspart Novo Nordisk Novolog Walmart Source Type: blogs
Making Sense of the Novo Nordisk-Walmart Partnership to Sell Some Discounted Insulin Analogues
On June 29, 2021, Walmart Inc. and the American business unit of Novo Nordisk A/S (which is based just outside of Princeton, New Jersey known as Novo Nordisk Inc.) dropped what was intended to be a news bombshell coming just as the ADA Scientific Sessions was coming to a close. In fact, the insulin makers had hardly any big news coming from the ADA Scientific Sessions themselves this year or for the past several years (about the biggest news was from 2018 when, Novo Nordiskacquired a UK-based company known as Ziylo to use its technology to try and develop glucose-responsive insulin, but that still has a long whil...
Source: Scott's Web Log - July 15, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Aspart Novo Nordisk Novolog Walmart Source Type: blogs
A counterintuitive strategy when you are sued for medical malpractice
Most physicians have been defendants in lawsuits. Plaintiff experts almost always have a feeding frenzy. In truth, expert witnesses are held to codes of conduct about remaining objective and avoiding partisanship or advocacy. Yet, should the verdict favor defendants, these experts, except for deserving the term “hired guns,” are rarely, if ever, held accountable for theirRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 8, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/howard-smith" rel="tag" > Howard Smith, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Malpractice Source Type: blogs
A First Amendment Win for Lone Star State Lawyers
Thomas A. Berry andStacy HansonSinceJanus v. AFSCME was decided in 2018, workers across the country have exercised their newfound freedom to no longer subsidize union speech against their will. But although Janus liberated unionized government employees from compelled dues, other professionals have not yet won a similar freedom. A particularly stark example is the legal profession; lawyers nationwide remain forced to pay membership dues to ideologically dominated state bar associations in order to practice law.The disconnect betweenJanus and the legal profession stems from two Supreme Court precedents that weren ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 7, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry, Stacy Hanson Source Type: blogs
Lawsuit Brought Against CHIME for their $1 Million Patient ID Challenge
Back in 2016, CHIME announced a $1 million Patient ID challenge. CHIME teamed up with HeroX (which co-founded the XPRIZE) to run a year-long competition to develop a National Patient ID solution. They planned to announce the $1 million winner in Feb 2017 at the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum. Here’s the challenge description from the HeroX […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 7, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations CHIME CHIME National Patient ID Challenge Health IT Lawsuits HeroX Keith Fraidenburg Michael Braithwaite Patient Identification Personavera Russell Branzell Source Type: blogs
Matthew ’s health care tidbits
Each week I’ve been adding a brief tidbits section to the THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB that week (Sign up here!). Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt
In this week’s health care tidbits, a little bit of light was shone on two of the dirty tricks health insurers play. First San Diego is suing Molina, Centene (owner of Healthnet) & Kaiser for misleading patients about which providers are in their networks. Apparently Healthnet & Kaiser’s directories were 35% inaccurate and Molina 80%! Now this may ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized Centene Health Care Tidbits Kaiser Permanete Matthew Holt Molina Source Type: blogs
Stem Cell Bioethics vs. Disability Rights
by A. Rahman Ford, JD, PhD
There can be no question that current FDA regulations regarding the use of one’s own stem cells (autologous therapies) to treat or potentially cure disabling conditions are very restrictive. Under most circumstances stem cells extracted from one person, processed, and then administered to the same person are legally considered “drugs” and must be subjected to the rather long and expensive clinical trial process. Nevertheless, and despite the persistent threat of FDA warning letters and lawsuits, an increasing number of clinics offer autologous stem cell therapy (SCT).… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 18, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Clinical Ethics Disability Featured Posts Justice Science Stem Cells Vulnerable Populations Source Type: blogs
The Bitcoin Law: Counterfeit Free Choice in Currency
George Selgin“Why should we not let people use freely what money they want to use? [They] ought to have the right to decide whether they want to buy or sell for francs, pounds, dollars, D-marks, or ounces of gold. I have no objection to governments issuing money, but I believe their claim to amonopoly, or their power tolimitthe kinds of money in which contracts may be concluded within their territory …to be wholly harmful.”—F.A. Hayek,Choice in Currency: A Way to Stop Inflation, p. 17.So, it has happened: a country —an honest to God,bona fide, country, complete with its own flag, coat of arms, seat at the U.N., a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 17, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Do Antirust Concerns Imply More or Less Privacy?
Jeffrey Miron and Pedro Braga SoaresU.S. authoritieshave recentlyfiled complaints against Big Tech companies for both enabling and for omitting user privacy features on their respective products. According to theFTC, Facebook privacy settings deceived users about the ability to control their privacy. At the same time, state Attorney Generals accuse Google of harming competition in the ad business by blocking cookies used to track and target users of its Chrome browser. Together, these cases suggest a fundamental incoherence in current antitrust enforcement.From a consumer welfare standpoint, it is not clear that ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron, Pedro Braga Soares Source Type: blogs
Diagnosing Acute Compartment Syndrome: Interview with Charles Allan, CEO of MY01
MY01, a medtech company based in Montreal, has developed the Continuous Compartment Pressure Monitor, a sterile, single-use device for the diagnosis of acute compartment syndrome. If undiagnosed and untreated, acute compartment syndrome, a condition caused by high pressure around muscles typically following an injury, can have significant consequences for patients. Long-term disability and amputation is too often the result.
At present, the condition is diagnosed using subjective measurements such as pain. These can be unreliable, and given the potential for serious consequences, often clinicians will err on the sid...
Source: Medgadget - June 2, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Emergency Medicine Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Doo, doo doo, doo doo, doo doo doo . . .
Take a walk on the wild side withJust Security ' s litigation tracker. It seems the Great Pumpkin is facing 10 civil suits and 4 criminal investigations. That ' s not counting at least two other criminal investigations that could ultimately lead to him. The Manhattan DA and NY Attorney General investigations have apparently merged in some respects, but it is likely they retain some separate elements. I should say that the Manhattan DA ' s investigation has been publicly said to target the Trump organization, and what specific individuals or entities might be presented for indictment to the grand jury has not been stated.It...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 28, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What to do when physicians get subpoenaed as witnesses: A forensic pathologist explains [PODCAST]
“You ’re a clinician. You had a patient die under your care, and now your hospital is being sued. You are not named in the lawsuit, but you are being asked to give a deposition. How much of your time is this going to take? If some lawyer sends you thousands of pages to review before […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 9, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Pathology Source Type: blogs
Let's Talk About Hospitals And Rural Healthcare (Particularly Mother-Baby Care): My Letter To The NC Government Commission/NC State Treasurer In Support Of Randolph County's Application For A Loan To Save Randolph Health
Author ' s Note: The lawyers have a saying, " Res Ipsa Loquitur " " . Translated from Latin, it means, " The thing speaks for itself " . This is the text of the letter I sent to theNC Local Government Commission (embellished with a few links and additional comments in red) . . .in support of the state of North Carolina granting a loan to Randolph County (via the NC Rural Healthcare Stabilization Act) . . . for purposes of assisting in the " rescue " of Asheboro ' s Randolph Health - in a bankruptcy Court-approved buy-out of Randolph ' s assets by American Healthcare Systems, LLC.On May 4th, afte...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 7, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: Asheboro Atrium Health Bankruptcy Cone Health Duke Lifepoint LGC Medical Whistle-blower Mother-Baby Care NC Rural Heatlh NCDHHS Non-profit Randolph Health UNC Health Wake Forest Baptist Source Type: blogs
Law Review Article Endorses Eliminating Qualified Immunity —And One Step Further
James CravenAforthcoming law review article from Professor Katherine Crocker of William and Mary Law School endorses eliminating qualified immunity, which protects individual public officials from lawsuits alleging a violation of constitutional rights ( §1983 claims). But it also suggests going one step further: eliminate theMonell doctrine and expand § 1983 to let people sue government entities as well.The current mechanisms for constitutional tort claims against government entities are complicated. InMonell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), the Supreme Court ruled thatmunicipal government enti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 5, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: James Craven Source Type: blogs
