Details
What this service is:
Bloomberg BNA’s Health Law Resource Center™ merges industry-leading health care law news and analysis with primary source materials and research aids in one easy-to-use site—making your job easier. With new developments in health care law and regulation emerging daily, this is the one reference resource you can count on to give you an insider’s grasp of the industry.
What it helps you do:
- Search news, analysis, and primary source content in one location via the Resource Center’s smart platform, organized by topic tabs according to specific areas of health law.
- Keep up with the latest news as it happens via Bloomberg BNA’s 11 notification services—including Health Care Daily Report™, Health Law Reporter™, and Health Care Fraud Report™— which offer timely reporting and broad coverage of health care law and policy from Bloomberg BNA’s extensive network of reporters.
- Access our comprehensive selection of health care law content, including Bloomberg BNA health law portfolios and treatises, full text decisions of significant health cases and rulings, updates on the latest state legislative and regulatory developments, and critical research documents covering guidelines and standards.
- Find out the perspectives of the industry’s foremost thought leaders on the implications of key legal, regulatory, and legislative developments in BNA Insights’ unique series of articles and videos.
- Examine more than 250 settlement agreements — and corresponding corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) — from 2006 to the present in the new Fraud Settlements Database, the only database to combine these hard-to-find records in a single location.
- Search through Bloomberg BNA’s extensive archive of case law and retrieve the case you need using the ‘Search Cases’ tool.
Product Structure
Reference: analysis, guidance and primary source material
Decisions: full text judicial opinions, rulings and memoranda
Notification: current reports providing news and developments
Formats and Frequency
The Resource Center is updated continually. Health Care Daily Report e-mail updates are sent out daily, plus latest development e-mails as important news breaks. Health Law Reporter e-mail updates are sent out weekly, plus latest development e-mails as important news breaks. For pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceutical Law and Industry Report is continually updated and includes regular e-mail notifications.
Major Topics Covered
Business & Taxation
- Antitrust enforcement
- IRS guidance
- Joint ventures
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Taxation of nonprofit health care entities
Fraud, Abuse, & Compliance
- Advisory opinions
- Compliance guidance
- Federal and state fraud investigations and enforcement actions
- Whistleblower lawsuits
Health Information & Technology
- Electronic health records
- Health IT incentives under Medicare and Medicaid
- HIPAA privacy and security rules
- "Meaningful use" standards
Health Insurance & Benefits
- ERISA cases involving benefits and coverage
- Federal and state regulation of health insurers
- Health insurance exchanges
- Liability lawsuits
- Managed care contracting
Hospital & Provider Regulation
- Emergency care regulations
- Hospital medical staff bylaws
- Patient safety
- Peer review
- Physician licensure and credentialing
- Professional liability
- Quality of care
Medicare & Medicaid
- Court decisions on coverage and payment
- Hospital and physician reimbursement
- Medicare Advantage
- Medicare Part D drug benefit
- Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB) decisions
- State Medicaid policies
Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
- Advertising and marketing
- Drug patent litigation
- FDA regulation of drugs, devices, and biotechnology
- Medical research
- Product safety and liability