Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 199: Bringing Awareness to Organ and Tissue Donation with Dave DeStefano of We Are Sharing Hope
Welcome to our eighth issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at the rural health "slush fund" included in the Federal budget bill, the effect of Medicaid...more
A New Hope in Kidney Transplants: The Promise of Xenotransplantation - Joe’s struggle for a kidney transplant highlights a dire reality: donor shortages are leaving countless patients in limbo. Enter Dr. PK, a pioneering...more
The Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model ("IOTA Model") introduces mandatory financial incentives and penalties for selected kidney transplant hospitals....more
On April 23, the 113th Tennessee General Assembly passed HB2269/SB2009, Public Chapter No. 985 (New CON Law), which significantly overhauls Tennessee’s certificate of need (CON) program for a second time less than three years...more
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) is a public-private partnership that manages the US organ donation and transplantation system. Today, more than 100,000 people are on the organ transplant waiting list,...more
This new legislation supports the Health Resources and Services Administration ("HRSA") modernization initiative announced in March, including several actions to strengthen accountability and transparency in the Organ...more
This is the tenth and final post in this year’s series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations. Be on the lookout for a roundup of our 2022 White Collar Year in Preview Series shortly....more
Last month, in Canada, a 63-year old engineer received his lung transplant via drone delivery. This was the world’s first drone delivered lung transplant. The drone flew for approximately 6 minutes from Toronto Western...more
On May 15, 2019, United States District Judge Amy Totenberg ordered HHS to “immediately cease and desist” from further implementing its April 2019 liver allocation policy pending appellate review in Callahan, et al. v. Azar,...more
Last month, a University of Maryland unmanned aerial system (UAS or drone) delivered a donor kidney to surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in Baltimore for an ultimately successful transplant to a...more