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Did You Know? - Summer 1997

Antitrust Settlement for Mental Health Networks.

Grandfathering Period Ends for Maryland's Self-Referral Law

Maryland's self-referral law, enacted in 1993, generally prohibits health care practitioners from referring patients to entities in which they have an ownership interest, or with which they have a

Maryland Regulatory News - Summer 1997

1. The Health Services Cost Review Commission's (HSCRC) 1997 Annual Disclosure Report revealed that Maryland's cost per hospital admission was about 3% below the U.S. average in FY 1996.

MDs, PPMCs and the SEC

Health care providers are long used to living with and talking in acronyms, from M.D. and Ph.D., to CT and EKG.

New Law Makes It Harder to Deny Coverage for Preexisting Conditions

The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) imposes certain new obligations on group health plans.

Physician Incentive Plans Under Siege

Physicians are, of course, expected to provideappropriate levels of patient care. However someargue that, under a fee-for-service paradigm,

Provider-Sponsored Organizations

In the fast moving world of risk bearing, managed health care entities, a new player has emerged, namely "provider-sponsored organizations" (or PSOs).

Supreme Court Finds No Constitutional Right to Physician-Assisted Dying

In a pair of decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court held, on June 26, 1997, that terminally ill individuals do not have a constitutionally protected right to a physician's assistance to die.