Online Graduate Certificate Programs
The next sessions for the Seton Hall Law Online Graduate Certificate Programs will commence in February 2012. These 8-week non-degree programs are designed for individuals who seek a greater understanding of key aspects of the health care field.
The Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Law & Compliance Program will begin on February 12, addressing the legal, regulatory and ethical issues related to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Priority application deadline is January 26.
The Health and Hospital Law Program will commence online on February 26 and offers an exploration of the legal, regulatory and ethical issues regarding health care delivery. Priority application deadline is February 2.
Click here to learn more about these programs and apply. For information, please contact Helen Cummings, Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs, at helen.cummings@shu.edu or call 973-642-8380.
Livestream Podcast, Seton Hall Law Review ACO Symposium
Filed under: Accountable Care Organization, Seton Hall Law
In conjunction with the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, this year’s SETON HALL LAW REVIEW Symposium explored recent changes in the structure of health care delivery, in particular the rising popularity of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
Legal scholars and practitioners from around the country presented in panel discussions on structural development, public health implications and lessons learned from state ACO programs. The luncheon keynote speaker was Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers.
Streaming Audio Podcasts of Each Panel are Below, Beside the Radio in Blue–Just Click and Listen
Panels & Panelists
Introduction to Accountable Care Organizations
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Jorge Lopez (Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP): Promise and Pitfalls: Health Reform’s Medicare ACO Shared Savings Program
Hal Teitelbaum (CEO and Managing Partner, Crystal Run Healthcare): The Prospect of Being Hanged: Focusing the Physician Mind on ACOs
Michael Kalison (Chairman of Applied Medical Software, Inc.; Of Counsel, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney, & Carpenter): The Lessons of Gainsharing
ACOs in Theory: Issues Raised by Integrated Delivery
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Jessica Mantel (Co-Director, Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston, Law Center): ACOs: Can we have our cake and eat it too?
Priscilla Keith (Adjunct Professor and Director of Research and Projects, Hall Center for Law and Health, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis): The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Public Health
Tara Ragone (Research Fellow, Seton Hall Law School): The Role of Competition in Integrated Delivery: ACOs, Federal and State Antitrust Law, and the State Action Doctrine
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Jeffrey Brenner, M.D., Founder & Executive Director, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
Jeffrey Brenner is a family physician and has practiced in Camden for eleven years as a front-line primary care provider for patients of all ages. Having owned a private practice in Camden, he has experience in implementing electronic health records and running a paperless office, open-access scheduling, as well as first-hand knowledge of the various challenges facing primary care in the current health system.
He currently serves full-time as the Coalition’s Executive Director, where he spends much of his time meeting with stakeholders and policymakers, advocating for the models of care the Coalition has developed and demonstrated through data centric results. Jeff is a faculty member of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden and is also a former resident of Camden, having lived in the city for over 8 years. He is a graduate of Vassar College and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
ACOs in Practice: Research on Current Implementation of ACOs
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Louise Trubek (Adjunct Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law, Clinical Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin Law School), Barbara Zabawa (Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, S.C); Felice Borisy-Rudin (University of Wisconsin Law School): Accountable care organizations in two states: A preliminary analysis
Sallie Sanford (Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington - School of Law & School of Public Health): State-based ACO and Medical Home Pilots: Early Lessons from the Other Washington
John Jacobi (Faculty Director & Dorothea Dix Professor of Health Law & Policy, Seton Hall University School of Law), Lessons from ACO Implementation in New Jersey.
Thomas Greaney (Chester A. Myers Professor of Law and Director, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law), Accountable Care Organizations: A New New Thing with Some Old Problems.
A Symposium Law Review with papers from the event is forthcoming. For more information regarding the Symposium, please contact Gianna Cricco-Lizza, Symposium Editor, at gianna.criccolizza@student.shu.edu
Introducing Professor Zack Buck to Health Reform Watch
Filed under: Seton Hall Law, Uncategorized
We are pleased to introduce and welcome Professor Zack Buck to Health Reform Watch. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor here at Seton Hall Law and specializes in various health law topics, focused primarily on issues surrounding mental health law and public health law. Professor Buck teaches health law courses, including mental health law and healthcare fraud and abuse. He holds a J.D. from the University Pennsylvania Law School (2009), a Masters of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania (2009), and a B.A. with highest distinction, in Political Science and Journalism, from Miami University (2006). Prior to joining Seton Hall, Professor Buck was a litigation associate at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago. He is a member of the bar of Illinois (2009) and is a former legal writing instructor at Penn Law (2008-09).
His first post, ACA Litigation, Implications for Medicaid and Mental Health Care, may be found below.
ACO Symposium: Professor John V. Jacobi to Present: Lessons from ACO Implementation in New Jersey
Filed under: Accountable Care Organization, Health Law
Professor John V. Jacobi, Faculty Director, Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Dorothea Dix Professor of Health Law & Policy, Seton Hall University School of Law
In conjunction with the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, this year’s Seton Hall Law Review Symposium on October 28, 2011, will explore recent changes in the structure of health care delivery, in particular the rising popularity of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). For more information or to register, click here.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and legal scholars and practitioners from around the country will present panel discussions on structural development, public health implications and lessons learned from state ACO programs. One such distinguished presenter is John V. Jacobi , Faculty Director, Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy,Dorothea Dix Professor of Health Law & Policy, Seton Hall University School of Law. Professor Jacobi, who frequently contributes to HRW, will take part in the panel on “ACOs in Practice: Research on Current Implementation of ACOs,” and will be presenting Lessons from ACO Implementation in New Jersey.
Professor John Jacobi’s work is primarily in the areas of Health Insurance and Access, Mental Health Law, and Disability Law.
Professor Jacobi received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the State University College of New York at Buffalo and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He teaches Health Law, Health Finance, Disability Law, Public Health Law, Mental Health Law, and Torts. Professor Jacobi spent five years working for the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate as Special Assistant to the Commissioner, where he worked on health, civil rights, and disability issues through litigation and advocacy in legislatures and regulatory agencies. He then became a Gibbons Fellow at the law firm of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, where he pursued health, prisoners’ rights, and disability issues. During 2007-2008 he was on leave from the law school, serving as Senior Associate Counsel to N.J. Governor Jon S. Corzine on Health, Human Services, and Chrildren’s Issues.
Professor Jacobi writes and speaks on issues including disability rights, health access and finance, public health, and mental health. His recent and current scholarly projects include examining the improvement of chronic care in health systems, the funding and structure of Early Intervention Services for children with disabilities, examining the obligations of government to provide services to people with serious mental illness, the clash of disability rights and public health interests, and the prospects and social effects of “consumer-driven” health insurance models on health costs and rights of access for the poor and people with disabilities. He served on the Governor’s Task Force on Mental Health, the Board of Advisors of the New Jersey Office of Child Advocacy, the New Jersey Olmstead Advisory Council on disability rights, and on other government and non-profit boards and committees.
ACO Symposium: Professor Sallie Sanford to Present: State-based ACO and Medical Home Pilots: Early Lessons from the Other Washington
Filed under: Accountable Care Organization, Health Law
Sallie Sanford, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law & School of Public Health
In conjunction with the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, this year’s Seton Hall Law Review Symposium on October 28, 2011, will explore recent changes in the structure of health care delivery, in particular the rising popularity of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). For more information or to register, click here.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and legal scholars and practitioners from around the country will present panel discussions on structural development, public health implications and lessons learned from state ACO programs. One such distinguished presenter is Sallie Sanford, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington — School of Law & School of Public Health. Professor Sanford will take part in the panel on “ACOs in Practice: Research on Current Implementation of ACOs,” and will be presenting State-based ACO and Medical Home Pilots: Early Lessons from the Other Washington.
Professor Sanford teaches Health Law both at the law school and the School of Public Health. Her research interests include health care delivery systems, health administration law, Medicare and Medicaid, comparative health law, and medical and administrative ethics.
Professor Sanford began her legal career as a law clerk for The Honorable Robert R. Beezer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She then served for six years as an Assistant Attorney General representing the University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center and the UW’s health sciences schools. Professor Sanford is a member of the Order of the Coif and is admitted to practice in Washington and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is the president of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys.
ACO Symposium: Tara A. Ragone to present: The Role of Competition in Integrated Delivery: ACOs, Federal and State Antitrust Law, and the State Action Doctrine
Filed under: Accountable Care Organization, Seton Hall Law
In conjunction with the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, this year’s Seton Hall Law Review Symposium on October 28, 2011, will explore recent changes in the structure of health care delivery, in particular the rising popularity of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). For more information or to register, click here.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and legal scholars and practitioners from around the country will present panel discussions on structural development, public health implications and lessons learned from state ACO programs. One such distinguished presenter is Tara Adams Ragone, Research Fellow & Lecturer in Law at Seton Hall Law School’s Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy; she will take part in the panel concerned with “ACOs in Theory: Issues Raised by Integrated Delivery,” and will be presenting The Role of Competition in Integrated Delivery: ACOs, Federal and State Antitrust Law, and the State Action Doctrine.
Tara Adams Ragone joined the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy as a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Law in 2011. Her research and writing for the Center focus on implementation of health care reform, accountable care organizations, health care access, bioethics, and issues related to the representation of health care professionals. Ms. Ragone also advises the health law moot court team and regularly contributes here at Health Reform Watch.
Ms. Ragone came to Seton Hall Law from the State of New Jersey, Office of the Attorney General, Division of Law, where she served as Deputy Attorney General in the Professional Boards Prosecution Section. She primarily prosecuted licensing actions before the State Board of Medical Examiners and the Office of Administrative Law and represented the State in federal civil rights actions brought by licensees. Before joining the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, Ms. Ragone served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allyne R. Ross of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
ACO Symposium: Profesor Priscilla D. Keith to Present:The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Public Health
Filed under: Accountable Care Organization, Health Law, Health Policy Community
Priscilla Keith, Adjunct Professor and Director of Research and Projects, Hall Center for Law and Health, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis
In conjunction with the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, this year’s Seton Hall Law Review Symposium on October 28, 2011, will explore recent changes in the structure of health care delivery, in particular the rising popularity of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). For more information or to register, click here.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and legal scholars and practitioners from around the country will present panel discussions on structural development, public health implications and lessons learned from state ACO programs. One such distinguished presenter is Priscilla Keith, Adjunct Professor and Director of Research and Projects, Hall Center for Law and Health, Indiana University School of Law — Indianapolis.
Professor Keith will take part in the panel concerned with “ACOs in Theory: Issues Raised by Integrated Delivery,” and will be presenting The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Public Health.
Priscilla D. Keith serves as Director of Research and Projects, as well as Adjunct Professor, at Indiana University Law School’s Hall Center for Law and Health. As Director, she manages the legal and policy research projects of the Center. She is also responsible for the development of the curriculum and other arrangements for the graduate law degree program (L.L.M.) in health law, policy and bioethics. Before returning to work for her alma mater, Keith served as the General Counsel of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, in Indianapolis, including Wishard Health Services, the Marion County Health Department, and Environmental Services. Her primary focus was litigation, corporate transactions, and risk management, and serving as the counsel for the Marion County Health Department’s Ryan White HIV AIDS Legal Project. Prior to her appointment as General Counsel, she served as Assistant Counsel to former Indiana Governor, Frank O’Bannon. She also served as an executive assistant to the Department of Insurance, State Board of Accounts, Utilities and Telecommunications, and the Women’s Commission. Additionally, Keith was Chief Counsel of the Advisory Section under Attorneys General Jeff Modisett and Karen Freeman-Wilson. Prior to her legal career, Keith worked for Eli Lilly and Company in discovery research, environmental and medical plans. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s Health Law Section, and serves on its Council, and is the Interest Group Leader. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis, Visiting Nurses Service, the State of Indiana Ethics Commission and St. Mary’s Child Center. In addition to earning her J.D. from our law school, she holds an M.S. in Anatomy from Atlanta University, and a B.S. from Spelman College. She is admitted to the Indiana Bar.
ACO Symposium: Professor Jessica Mantel to Present, ACOs: Can we have our cake and eat it too?
Filed under: Accountable Care Organization, Health Law
Jessica Mantel, Co-Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston, Law Center, and Assistant Professor of Law
In conjunction with the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, this year’s Seton Hall Law Review Symposium on October 28, 2011, will explore recent changes in the structure of health care delivery, in particular the rising popularity of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). For more information or to register, click here.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and legal scholars and practitioners from around the country will present panel discussions on structural development, public health implications and lessons learned from state ACO programs. One such distinguished presenter is Jessica Mantel, Co-Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston, Law Center and Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Mantel will take part in the panel concerned with “ACOs in Theory: Issues Raised by Integrated Delivery,” and will be presenting ACOs: Can we have our cake and eat it too?
Professor Jessica Mantel joined the University of Houston Health Law & Policy Institute as co-director after eight years of service with two government agencies in Washington, D.C. She worked most recently as a senior attorney in the Office of the General Counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services. In that position she advised Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on legal issues dealing with Medicare matters, including implementation of the prescription drug benefit, hospital payments, incentive payments for the adoption of electronic health records, and health care reform. She previously worked as a health policy analyst in the Government Accountability Office evaluating Medicare payment issues. Prior to her service with government agencies, she practiced as an associate in the Health Care Department of the firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston and clerked for the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cleveland. Her research interests include the impact of various legislative and regulatory schemes on emerging trends in the health care delivery system and the allocation of limited health care resources. In 1997, Mantel received both her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and an M.P.P. from the University of Michigan School of Public Policy. She also holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Symposium: Implementing the Affordable Care Act: What Role for Accountable Care Organizations?
Filed under: Accountable Care Organization, Health Law, Seton Hall Law
In conjunction with the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, this year’s SETON HALL LAW REVIEW Symposium will explore recent changes in the structure of health care delivery, in particular the rising popularity of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
Legal scholars and practitioners from around the country will present panel discussions on structural development, public health implications and lessons learned from state ACO programs. Luncheon keynote speaker will be Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers.
Scheduled Panels & Panelists include
Introduction to Accountable Care Organizations
Jorge Lopez (Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP): Promise and Pitfalls: Health Reform’s Medicare ACO Shared Savings Program
Hal Teitelbaum (CEO and Managing Partner, Crystal Run Healthcare): The Prospect of Being Hanged: Focusing the Physician Mind on ACOs
Michael Kalison (Chairman of Applied Medical Software, Inc.; Of Counsel, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney, & Carpenter): The Lessons of Gainsharing
ACOs in Theory: Issues Raised by Integrated Delivery
Jessica Mantel (Co-Director, Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston, Law Center): ACOs: Can we have our cake and eat it too?
Priscilla Keith (Adjunct Professor and Director of Research and Projects, Hall Center for Law and Health, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis): The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Public Health
Tara Ragone (Research Fellow, Seton Hall Law School): The Role of Competition in Integrated Delivery: ACOs, Federal and State Antitrust Law, and the State Action Doctrine
Keynote
Jeffrey Brenner, M.D., Founder & Executive Director, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
Jeffrey Brenner is a family physician and has practiced in Camden for eleven years as a front-line primary care provider for patients of all ages. Having owned a private practice in Camden, he has experience in implementing electronic health records and running a paperless office, open-access scheduling, as well as first-hand knowledge of the various challenges facing primary care in the current health system.
He currently serves full-time as the Coalition’s Executive Director, where he spends much of his time meeting with stakeholders and policymakers, advocating for the models of care the Coalition has developed and demonstrated through data centric results. Jeff is a faculty member of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden and is also a former resident of Camden, having lived in the city for over 8 years. He is a graduate of Vassar College and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
ACOs in Practice: Research on Current Implementation of ACOs
Louise Trubek (Clinical Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School), Barbara Zabawa (Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, S.C); Felice Borisy-Rudin (University of Wisconsin Law School): Accountable care organizations in two states: A preliminary analysis
Sallie Sanford (Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington - School of Law & School of Public Health): State-based ACO and Medical Home Pilots: Early Lessons from the Other Washington
John Jacobi (Faculty Director & Dorothea Dix Professor of Health Law & Policy, Seton Hall University School of Law), Lessons from ACO Implementation in New Jersey.
Thomas Greaney (Chester A. Myers Professor of Law and Director, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law), Accountable Care Organizations: A New New Thing with Some Old Problems.
The event will take place at Seton Hall Law School with luncheon served at The Newark Club, One Newark Center, 22nd floor. There is no charge for Seton Hall Law alumni; cost for all others, $25. Four NJ/NY CLE credits will be available. Visit http://law.shu.edu/lawreviewsymposium to register. For more information regarding the Symposium, please contact Gianna Cricco-Lizza, Symposium Editor, at gianna.criccolizza@student.shu.edu.
Distinguished Guest Practitioner Mark Swearingen Lectures on Trends in Healthcare Law Enforcement
On Wednesday, September 21, 2011, Distinguished Guest Practitioner Mark Swearingen spoke at Seton Hall Law School on a number of healthcare law enforcement topics that were of keen interest to the audience of health lawyers and health lawyers-in-training. Mr. Swearingen, who graduated from Seton Hall Law in 1998, is a shareholder at Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C., a large healthcare law boutique based in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Among other things, Mr. Swearingen discussed two recent Stark Law cases: United States v. Tuomey Healthcare System, in which a jury award of $49.4 million is currently on review in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and United States v. Bradford, a summary judgment decision from the Western District of Pennsylvania that also largely favors the government.
As the court in Bradford explains, the case involved two physicians, Kamran Saleh and Peter Vaccaro, who leased a nuclear camera so that they would no longer have to refer their patients to the local hospital, Bradford Regional Medical Center, for nuclear imaging. Faced with the prospect of losing over a third of its $2,274,094 in annual gross nuclear medicine revenues, the hospital responded by threatening to revoke the doctors’ admitting privileges. Lengthy negotiations ensued, at the end of which the hospital agreed to sublease the camera from the two physicians; the camera remained at the physicians’ offices but other physicians with privileges at the hospital could use it.
Four local physicians who “provide[d] the same or similar services to patients as Drs. Saleh and Vaccaro” brought a qui tam action alleging that the sublease violated the Anti-Kickback and Stark Acts and that the defendants falsely certified compliance with those laws in connection with claims submitted to Medicare in violation of the False Claims Act. The court agreed that the defendants violated the Stark Act, because the amounts the hospital paid under the sublease were inflated to account for the referrals the hospital lost as a result of Drs. Saleh and Vaccaro’s decision to lease their own camera. The court deferred on the Anti-Kickback and False Claims Act charges, because it was unable to conclude at the summary judgment stage that the defendants acted knowingly.
As Mr. Swearingen commented, even if the sublease arrangement in Bradford was, on paper, above approach, the facts leading up to it were not good for BRMC and Drs. Saleh and Vaccaro. That the hospital responded to losing business to the two physicians by first threatening to revoke their privileges and then entering into a financial arrangement that brought them back into the fold suggests that the sublease was about more than the use of a camera. The facts in Tuomey were in several key respects similar to those in Bradford. Tuomey, too, involved a hospital faced with the prospect of a group of physicians performing outpatient procedures elsewhere, which would have meant a loss to the hospital of $6-9 million in annual revenues. To keep the physicians in the fold, the hospital entered into part-time employment contracts with them. The government alleged– and the jury presumably found–that the contracts would have been money-losers for the hospital but for the associated facility and other fees that the hospital was able to bill in connection with the physicians’ services.
Mr. Swearingen also highlighted the fact that the hospital in Bradford lost the case despite having obtained an expert opinion that the amount it paid for the camera under the sublease was fair market value. The defendant hospital in Tuomey similarly lost despite having obtained not one but two valuation analyses and multiple legal opinions. The hospital in Tuomey relied on an advice of counsel defense and, notably, attorney-client privileged communications were entered into evidence at trial. Going forward, Mr. Swearingen emphasized, fair market value and legal opinions “will be scrutinized” and “may not be dispositive.”
Congratulations Jordan Cohen ‘11 and Katherine Freed Matos ‘11
Filed under: Health Law, Health Policy Community, Seton Hall Law
Tonight just a fond farewell and congratulations to two of our finest student bloggers: Jordan Cohen and Katherine Freed Matos, both of whom have graduated from Seton Hall Law, with each receiving the much vaunted Health Law Award. They are both now hard at work studying for that fiendish quiz they offer each year at the end of July to see if would be lawyers were paying attention (it is a horrible exercise, I assure you, and if someone you know is studying for the Bar– bring them some food, and leave them alone– they’ll reemerge into the land of the living soon enough). As such, it will be awhile until we hear from them (at least on this blog) again.
After the Bar Exam, Jordan Cohen will be off to employ in the law offices of Brach Eichler, LLC., a preeminent law firm in the New Jersey metro area and a recognized leader in the field of healthcare law.
Katherine Matos has been named to the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she will work in the Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, Administrative and Civil Remedies Branch.
You will both be missed. It was a pleasure to work with you, and this blog is better for your having been here. Can’t thank you enough, or wish you enough luck– I expect great things– as it is simply the usual for you both.
And the Winners Are…
Two promising health law students were recently awarded scholarships to attend Seton Hall Law’s Healthcare Compliance Certification Program this June. The program immerses attendees in the laws, regulations, industry codes and compliance standards applicable to the life sciences industry. This year, the scholarships, which are given annually, were awarded to Jenna Smith, a 2L at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and Abraham Gitterman, a 2L at the University of Maryland School of Law.
For more information on the scholarships and on how students may apply for next year, click here (and scroll down past “Government Scholarships”).
Center News: Greater Newark Healthcare Coalition, Improving Care Through Collaboration
Filed under: Health Policy Community, Health Reform
The Greater Newark Healthcare Coalition is now in its second year and continues to pursue cooperative projects to improve health care for the most vulnerable in the Greater Newark area. Professor John Jacobi serves as the Coalition’s board chair. Other members include a range of health providers, consumer groups, and government agencies. The projects include:
Case management of frequent utilizers of hospital emergency departments. These very fragile patients will benefit from a sophisticated evaluation of their needs and referral to appropriate community placements. Professor Jacobi and Research Fellow and Lecturer in Law Kate Greenwood are working with clinicians on this project, and will produce analysis supporting a reconfiguration of health care funding to both improve care and reduce costs.
Improved prenatal care. The Newark area has a disproportionate number of mothers with poor access to prenatal care.The Coalition is working to bring together various organizations to improve prenatal care.
Preparing physicians for new practice models. Accountable care organizations and patient- centered medical homes require the increased adoption of technology and physician practice patterns that mesh with demands for quality and efficiency. The Coalition will conduct training sessions for area physicians.
The Center’s faculty and students are engaged and committed to lending expert support to the Coalition through legislative and regulatory advocacy and policy development, believing that the fruits of health reform will reach the most vulnerable only if providers, advocates, and regulators work together in cities like Newark.
And the Winners Are…
Filed under: Health Law, Health Policy Community
Two promising health law students were recently awarded scholarships to attend Seton Hall Law’s Healthcare Compliance Certification Program this June. The program immerses attendees in the laws, regulations, industry codes and compliance standards applicable to the life sciences industry. This year, the scholarships, which are given annually, were awarded to Jenna Smith, a 2L at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and Abraham Gitterman, a 2L at the University of Maryland School of Law.
For more information on the scholarships and on how students may apply for next year, click here (and scroll down past “Government Scholarships”).
Health Reform Watch Welcomes Tara Adams Ragone
Health Reform Watch is pleased to welcome Tara Adams Ragone, Research Fellow and Lecturer in Law here at The Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy at Seton Hall Law. Ms. Ragone’s research and writing for the Center will focus on implementation of health care reform, accountable care organizations, health care access, and issues related to the representation of health care professionals. Ms. Ragone comes to us from the State of New Jersey, Office of the Attorney General, Division of Law, where she served as Deputy Attorney General. She handled the prosecution of licensing actions before the State’s professional boards and the Office of Administrative Law. Prior to her work with the Attorney General of New Jersey, Ms. Ragone served as clerk to The Honorable Robert A. Katzmann, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Her first post for HRW can be found immediately below.
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