Since the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (Dobbs), hospitals and their emergency department (ED) clinicians in some states have faced significant uncertainty about their...more
In the ever-evolving world of healthcare billing, two recent reported California appellate court decisions, Naranjo v. Doctors Medical Center of Modesto and Dameron Hospital Association v. Progressive Casualty Insurance...more
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HIPAA and 15-minutes-of-fame are not compatible. In September 2018, the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that it had reached settlements with Boston Medical Center...more
The California Court of Appeal recently held that the release of an index identifying hospital patients did not constitute the release of medical information under California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act...more
Two recent California Court of Appeal opinions decide issues of first impression in the medical staff peer review arena, helping to resolve questions that have long been uncertain and controversial. In the first of the two...more