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US Supreme Court rules in favor of healthcare provider in identity theft dispute

JURIST

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in Dubin v. United States that in order to constitute aggravated identity theft, the use of a person’s identity must be at the “crux” of what makes the conduct criminal, reversing a lower court decision.

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US Appeals Court rules Pfizer plan to cover heart medication copays violates US law

JURIST

The Inspector General said that the program would violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), a law meant to prevent fraud and abuse in connection with Medicare and Medicaid. A district court in New York upheld the DHHS’s interpretation of the AKS.

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US federal court reverses ban on law requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains

JURIST

The appellate court ruled that the mandate is not unconstitutional, as was argued in the initial lawsuit filed in 2020 by healthcare provider Women’s Med Group and three of its patients. People who undergo abortions can choose to take custody of the remains and dispose of them on their own accord.

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Texas Supreme Court denies abortion access to woman with pregnancy complications

JURIST

The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Monday against a pregnant woman who challenged the state’s abortion restrictions. A lower court had previously granted the woman, Kate Cox, permission to receive an abortion due to pregnancy complications, despite the state’s strict abortion ban. Her health is on the line.

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Federal appeals court upholds Ohio Down syndrome abortion law

JURIST

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has upheld Ohio’s HB 214 law that prohibits doctors from performing an abortion with the knowledge that a women’s reason for terminating the pregnancy is a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis. Rather, the validity of HB 214 should be decided using the “undue burden test.”

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Medicare preempts liability claims for denial of skilled nursing facility services

At the Lectern

the Supreme Court today upholds the dismissal without trial of negligence, wrongful death, and elder abuse claims against a Medicare Advantage HMO and plan administrator for the alleged premature discharge of an 85-year-old man from a skilled nursing facility. A federal Medicare statute preempts those claims, the court concludes.

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More On Powers of Attorney, Arbitration Agreements, and Wrongful Death

Day on Torts

While the Agreement was ‘optional,’ it was bound up in the context of a healthcare decision[.] …The We conclude that…[the daughter’s] signing the Agreement on Decedent’s behalf was part and parcel of a healthcare decision. The POA did not provide or even contemplate healthcare decision-making power for [daughter]. …The