Health Care

Past 12 Months

Recorded on: Jun. 13, 2012

Taken from the briefing Antitrust Enforcement in the Health Care Industry: Current FTC and DOJ Activities recorded June 2012. With health care costs seemingly spiraling out of control, federal antitrust regulators have turned a watchful eye to the health care industry.  The FTC and DOJ have made it clear that they will aggressively challenge both new transactions and established practices they believe threaten competition.  ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2012

Taken from the briefing Supreme Court and the Affordable Care Act: Implications for the Futurerecorded July, 2012. By all accounts, the Supreme Court’s decision concerning the Affordable Care Act is one of its most important in recent years. Listen to Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law for this important presentation. Lecture Topics  [Total ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2012

Taken from the briefing Supreme Court Affordable Care Act Decision 2012: What's Next for Health Care Providers? recorded July, 2012. The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic decision upholding the individual mandates under the Affordable Care Act ACA), while striking down the Medicaid expansion provisions. Many health care providers braced for the decision, while other forged ahead regardless of the how the Court decided. In this ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2012

Taken from the briefing Compliance with Disability Accessibility Requirements When Buying or Selling Instructional Technology: A Legal, Policy and Technical Primer for Lawyers recorded July, 2012. Persons with disabilities are demanding and obtaining legal rights to access and use instructional technology products. This is particularly true in the educational arena. However, the road to product accessibility is paved with a confusing ...

Recorded on: Jul. 26, 2012

AMY: Now it's my pleasure to turn this briefing over to Erwin Chemerinsky. ERWIN CHEMERINSKY: Thank you so much. It's really a pleasure to do this. It's hard to think of any Supreme Court case in recent memory that attracted as much media attention was anticipated as the Supreme Court's ruling two weeks ago today in National Federation of Independent Business versus Sebelius. It is a decision that will literally affect all of us in the way we receive ...

Recorded on: Aug. 2, 2012

Taken from the briefing Health Care Reform After the Supreme Court Decision: What Employers Need to Know Now for Compliance, Transactions and Executive Compensation recorded August, 2012. In the wake of the recent Supreme Court Decision upholding the constitutionality of the individual mandates under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), employers are assessing the impact of the ACA on their group health plans and their businesses as a ...

Recorded on: Aug. 6, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings My name it's Amy Taub. I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome to today's briefing, Supreme Court Affordable Care Act decision, what's next for health care providers? Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing in the course ...

Published: August 2012

Released on: Nov. 29, 2012

Taken from the briefing Veterans Benefits Law: Women Veterans; and Don't Ask, Don't Tell, One Year Later recorded November, 2012. Thousands of veterans have returned home from overseas service in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of whom are women.  Women currently comprise 14.5% of the active duty military, and 18% of the National Guard and Reserves.  The VA denies female veterans’ disability claims for PTSD at a greater rate than ...

From the program: Health Care and Life Sciences Law 2012

Released on: Jan. 2, 2013

Our expert faculty of attorneys representing the health care and life sciences industries, government regulators, and policy makers will examine the current state of health care and life sciences law and what the future might hold. This program will cover the broad range of issues confronting you and your clients today: structuring compliant relationships with health care providers and clinical investigators; promotional guidelines affecting FDA-regulated ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2013

Taken from the briefing Affordable Care Act: Compliance Program Considerations for Health Care Providersrecorded February, 2013. Compliance efforts are heating up under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  Enforcement activities at both the state and federal level are on the rise making compliance programs and plans for the health care industry a must.  Under the ACA, mandatory plans will be required for certain providers by March 23, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 11, 2013

Taken from the briefing Making Sense of the New HIPAA/HITECH Era recorded February, 2013. After waiting for almost four years, the Department of Health and Human Services has now released its “Omnibus” final regulation implementing the HITECH requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.  These regulations will impact in significant ways every health care company, their business partners, and the downstream partners ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2013

Taken from the briefing Health Care Reform: An Employer's Essential Guide recorded February, 2013. Guidance on health care reform is coming in fast and from all angles.  The departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor have recently been releasing proposed rules in droves, with much more to come on the horizon.  Employers must already contend with several of the new rules, and other looming requirements will ...

Recorded on: Feb. 26, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello, my name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, "Making Sense of the New HIPAA/HITECH Era." Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook tab in the program ...

Recorded on: Mar. 7, 2013

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello, my Name is Amy Taub. And I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Health Care Reform, an Employer's Essential Guide. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook tab ...

Released on: Mar. 19, 2013

Taken from the briefing ADA and Mental Disorders: Employee Threats and Violence, Employer Assessments and Accommodations recorded March, 2013. Threats of physical harm in the workplace may arise in a variety of ways, none benign. They range from bullying behavior to blatant homicidal and suicidal statements. Typically, employers must contend with a threatening and aggressive employee while under considerable pressure to take action quickly. Employers ...

Course Handbook from the program Privacy and Data Security Law Institute (Fourteenth Annual), held May, 2013.