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Mid-Atlantic Health Law TOPICS | September 21, 1997

Does "Current" Drug Use Mean Yesterday, Last Week or Last Month?

After a nurse was confronted by her hospital employer about the theft of narcoti...

Mid-Atlantic Health Law TOPICS | September 21, 1997

Maryland Health Insurance Regulation Struck Down

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in American Medical Security v...

Mid-Atlantic Health Law TOPICS | September 21, 1997

The Continued Demise of Gag Clauses

In recent years, HMOs have come under increasing fire for the practices used by ...

Mid-Atlantic Health Law TOPICS | June 21, 1997

Did You Know? - Summer 1997

Antitrust Settlement for Mental Health Networks. Did you know that two Tennessee...

Mid-Atlantic Health Law TOPICS | June 21, 1997

New Law Makes It Harder to Deny Coverage for Preexisting Conditions

The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) imposes ...

Mid-Atlantic Health Law TOPICS | June 21, 1997

MDs, PPMCs and the SEC

Health care providers are long used to living with and talking in acronyms, from...

Mid-Atlantic Health Law TOPICS | June 21, 1997

AWP Statutes and ERISA Preemption

Last fall, the Supreme Court declined to review the 1996 Fifth Circuit decision ...

Mid-Atlantic Health Law TOPICS | June 21, 1997

Maryland Regulatory News - Summer 1997

1. The Health Services Cost Review Commission's (HSCRC) 1997 Annual Disclosure R...

Mid-Atlantic Health Law TOPICS | June 21, 1997

1997 Maryland Legislative Session

The following is a sampling of health care/health insurance measures enacted by ...

Mid-Atlantic Health Law TOPICS | June 21, 1997

Physician Incentive Plans Under Siege

Physicians are, of course, expected to provideappropriate levels of patient care...