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Highlights
The Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule: Overview and Outlook
Posted on September 5, 2012
On August 23, 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule on the Stage 2 Meaningful Use criteria that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet to qualify as meaningful users of electronic health records (EHRs) and receive incentive payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. This final rule... Read More >
State Health Insurance Exchange Laws: The First Generation
Posted on August 1, 2012
This issue brief examines the efforts by 13 states and the District of Columbia to establish a health insurance exchange as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as of May, 2012.... Read More >
Summary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of National Federation of Independent Businesses et al. v. Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al.
Posted on June 29, 2012
The Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in the case of National Federation of Independent Businesses et al. v. Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al., upholding the individual requirement to maintain insurance coverage as a reasonable exercise of Congress’s taxing and spending authority and also upholding the constitutionality of the Medicaid coverage... Read More >
Supreme Court upholds health reform law
Posted on June 28, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court has released the highly anticipated decision regarding the issues raised by parties in two cases: Florida, et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services and National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.
The Court held that the individual mandate is constitutional, and survives as a tax. The Medicaid expansion is also constitutional, but Congress’... Read More >
Presenting HealthInfoLaw.org!
Posted on April 30, 2012
The George Washington University’s Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program is proud to announce a new online resource, Health Information and the Law (HealthInfoLaw.org). This new website, developed with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is an online guide to federal and state laws governing access, use, release, and publication of health information. We intend the... Read More >
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