Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Costs, Health Care Providers

Findings from Gibbins’ Annual Healthcare Bankruptcy Report

Holland & Knight LLP on 4/8/2024

In this episode of "Counsel That Cares," bankruptcy attorney Tyler Layne is joined by Gibbins Advisors managing directors Clare Moylan and Ron Winters to discuss their company's annual healthcare bankruptcy report. Their...more

Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - July 2022

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 7/21/2022

The 21st century American reality is if you get sick, really sick,you're in for a money nightmare on top of the emotional and physical toll of serious disease. Medical costs keep skyrocketing with no sign of easing....more

Biden-Harris Administration Issues Part I of Surprise Billing Rule

Morgan Lewis on 7/21/2021

The US Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the Departments) along with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I on July 1. ...more

Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - March 2021

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 3/11/2021

IN THIS ISSUE - As patients struggle with unreal prices, health reformers zero in on hospitals - Smart ways to negotiate a bill down - With public outcry rising on health costs, governments and employers are...more

Bipartisan Rx for America’s Healthcare: A Practical Path to Reform

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/9/2020

Tom Daschle, Cochair, Former Senate Majority Leader, Co-Founder, Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) - Andy Slavitt, Cochair, Senior Advisor, BPC, Former Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - ...more

Colorado Hospitals and the Proposed Public Option: A Looming Challenge

Polsinelli on 11/27/2019

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) removed pre-existing condition barriers, defined a broad range of essential health benefits, and improved access to coverage and care for millions of people nationwide. However, the ACA has thus...more

Employers May Need to Provide Cost Data Under Proposed ACA Rules

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/26/2019

Employer-sponsored health plans and health insurers may be required to post online - and to provide participants upon request - a range of pricing and cost-sharing information beginning in 2021. Proposed Affordable Care...more

Hospital tries to stick ER nurse with $1 million in debt for her preemie’s care

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 11/11/2019

It’s the price and cost problem, stupid. That’s a fictitious but new tattoo that voters might want politicians to take up as they consider the many major problems with the American health care system, especially as yet more...more

Health insurance? It’s now about the price of a new car each year.

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 10/4/2019

Millions of Americans may sigh at Bertha, Barney, or Betty, or whatever they’ve nicknamed the beat-up family vehicle parked out front: “Wouldn’t it be great, if only we could afford a nicer, newer model?”...more

$14k to treat iron-poor blood? That’s rich. As is politicians’ health care frenzy.

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 8/6/2019

Iron poor blood? For many of a certain age, mere mention of that phrase conjures the major advertising campaigns of yore for a popular, over-the-counter nostrum called Geritol. The tonic is still around and sells for less...more

Waste, fraud, and abuse? For health insurers, fat profits matter more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 7/26/2019

What happens when a whistle blower provides detailed information about a burly Texan — with convictions for felony theft and felony injury of a child — and a burgeoning scam to rip off health insurers for $25 million? Pretty...more

Congress and White House find a bipartisan target in medical bills and prices

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 5/30/2019

Doctors, hospitals, health insurers, and Big Pharma have become so abusive to patients with their billing and pricing that they may have accomplished what many consider a political impossibility ? angering Democrats and...more

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - May 2019 #3

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 5/15/2019

This week, all is quiet in the Senate as stakeholders await the release of the highly anticipated cost-containment package that is being developed by the HELP and Finance committees. While the details are not yet public – a...more

Cost of medical billing soars to half a trillion dollars—and half may be wasted

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 4/17/2019

When patients battle with the desperate extremes of a disease like a fast-spreading cancer, it isn’t just the radiation and chemo therapies that sap their spirits, there’s a demoralizing runner-up concern: The constant...more

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - April 2019

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 4/8/2019

This week, Congress is keeping its eye on drug pricing with a reported hearing in the House Ways & Means Committee. This comes on the heels of the full E&C Committee advancing six pieces of bipartisan legislation for full...more

If You're Reading This, You're Too Late: Key Drivers in Rising Health Care Defaults

Baker Donelson on 7/30/2018

Health care bankruptcy filings more than tripled in 2017 as compared to 2016 with no end in sight to the financial struggles facing owners and operators in the sector. According to Bloomberg, health care bankruptcies have...more

Direct Contracting 101: Collaborations Between Employers and Health Care Providers

Jones Day on 5/17/2018

As employers continue to encounter escalating health care costs, many are exploring the "direct contracting" option, which allows for direct service and pricing negotiations with health care providers. While the direct...more

Will the dismantlement of Obamacare affect healthcare restructuring?

Epiq on 4/19/2018

Bankruptcy filings among hospitals and medical centers more than tripled in 2017, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. While there are many factors contributing to this financial volatility, the political battle over The...more

House, Senate Proposals to Extend Funding for the Federal Government

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/9/2018

Congress moved one step closer to avoiding a government shutdown on Feb. 6, voting overwhelmingly (245-182) to pass a short-term, GOP-backed government funding bill (text; section-by-section) that would keep the federal...more

2018 Budget Deal Delays Several Affordable Care Act Taxes and Fees

Burr & Forman on 1/30/2018

On January 22, 2018, President Trump signed into law H.R. 195 (hereinafter referred to as the “2018 Budget Deal”) which ended the federal government shutdown and funds the federal government through February 8, 2018. In...more

Trump Administration: 2017 Recap and 2018 Outlook

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/17/2018

On January 20, 2017, businessman Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States following a contentious and unconventional 2016 presidential election. Republicans also successfully maintained control...more

Focus on Health Care Provider Bankruptcies

Jones Day on 10/3/2017

The next few years are expected to see a significant increase in the volume of bankruptcy cases filed by health care providers. Thus far in 2017, the number of bankruptcies in health care-related sectors, including hospitals,...more

Why Isn’t My “Free” Preventive Health Care Free?

Snell & Wilmer on 6/23/2017

In my opinion, one of the best changes made by the Affordable Care Act is the mandate that requires health plans to provide certain specified preventive services without imposing any cost sharing. This is sometimes referred...more

Manatt on Medicaid: Medicaid at 50—The Program’s Evolution and Future

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/27/2015

Editor’s note: Born as an afterthought to Medicare five decades ago, Medicaid has evolved from an adjunct to state welfare programs into the nation’s largest health insurer. Medicaid’s 50th birthday is a fitting time to...more

Will Personalized Medicine Survive Alternative Payment Models?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/22/2015

There is no doubt that health care costs in the United States are rising. According to a recent study published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, personal health care expenditures in the United States...more

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