HEALTHLAWYER

Legal Iss Relevnt Hlthcare Adm - GMU HHS 750 - Spring 2011

To my CHHS Spring 2011 term health law students: welcome to health law.  Please know that the course materials to be purchased for the Spring 2011 term are listed below (and hopefully sufficient quantities will be available at the campus bookstore); and additional course materials may from time to time be posted on HEALTHLAWYERBLOG for ready-reference:

 

http://www.abanet.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=3170033

Pocket Edition of the Constitution of the United States  

Product Code: 3170033 

Publication Date: 1998 

ISBN: 978-1-88147-321-3 

Sponsoring Entities: Division for Public Education 

Topics: Constitutional Law, Courts, Public Education 

Pricing: $1.50 (Regular) 

AND

http://west.thomson.com/productdetail/174675/41054549/productdetail.aspx?promcode=600582C43556&promtype=internal

and 

http://west.thomson.com/productdetail/147942/40765887/productdetail.aspx?promcode=608075E60588&promtype=external

Furrow, Greaney, Johnson, Jost and Schwartz' Health Care Reform: 

Supplementary 

Materials (2010)

By 

Barry R Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy S Jost, Robert L.  Schwartz

Book - softbound Copyright: 2010 

ISBN-13: 9780314266873 : $28.00:

AND

Furrow, Greaney, Johnson, Jost and Schwartz' Health Law, Cases, 

Materials and Problems, Abridged 6th

By Barry R Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy S 

Jost, Robert L. Schwartz

Book - softbound Copyright: 2008 ISBN-13: 9780314196026 

List Price: $131.00

The syllabus for our course, updated to reflect the many new develops in health law, will be available soon.  In the meantime, kindly favor me with any questions regarding our course.  It will be my pleasure to meet you at our first class.  Thank you.

 

GMU Health Law Fall 2010

Please study the materials hot linked below, in anticipation of our discussion later this term regarding life and death and genomics/genetics and life sciences:

http://web.me.com/asgoldberg1/filechute/genepatents-USamicusbrief.pdf

http://web.me.com/asgoldberg1/filechute/genepatents-AMPvUSPTO-Opinion.pdf

OR

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/genepatents-USamicusbrief.pdf

http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/2010-3-29-AMPvUSPTO-Opinion.pdf

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A timely newspaper article regarding the foregoing materials appears at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/business/30drug.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print


and other information is available at:

http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/BriefingBook/Detail.aspx?id=2174

http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/BriefingBook/Detail.aspx?id=2186

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Please see the eNews available at the following hot linked web page and in  particular, for our next class, the article on page 5:

http://vba.org/associations/11069/files/health2010.pdf

Amendment to § 54.1-2413(E) of the Code of
Virginia: HB 143 (2010)
Hon. Stephen D. Rosenthal, page 5

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Please study the following AHLA material which AHLA generously has
made available to us and the other hot linked materials.

http://www.healthlawyers.org/Resources/PI/Policy/Documents/Stark White Paper.pdf

OR

http://sn.im/sm3qq-drp

Please also see below for a hot link to a copy of the so-called Stark
Law

http://sn.im/sm41e-aod

OR

http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title18/1877.htm

and please also study the so-called health care civil monetary
penalties false claims and antikickback statutes

http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title11/1128A.htm

http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title11/1128B.htm

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Please see below for some additional study materials, in anticipation  of our discussion of HIPAA Administrative Simplification.  Please be  sure to have this material readily available either on your laptop or in  dead tree media format for our impending classes.

http://www.medicare.gov/privacypractices.asp

Medicare program Notice of Privacy Practices for the Original Medicare Plan

http://www.inova.org/upload/docs/Patients%20&%20Visitors/privacy-policy.pdf

INOVA NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/notice.pdf

Background - OCR publication regarding NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES FOR PROTECTED
HEALTH INFORMATION [45 CFR 164.520]

Please also read the original HIPAA Administrative Simplification statute:

http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/pl104191.htm

PUBLIC LAW 104-191
AUG. 21, 1996
HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 1996
Public Law 104-191
104th Congress

Please also see Public Law 110-233Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act of 2008 for our discussion relating to genetics/genomics:

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ233.110

and

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00493:@@@D&summ2=m&