What this service is:

Bloomberg BNA’s Health Law Resource Center™ merges industry-leading health 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 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.
• Gain insight from our comprehensive selection of health law analysis from leading practitioners, including Bloomberg BNA health law portfolios and treatises.
• Access in one place a comprehensive collection of primary sources -- full text decisions of significant health cases and rulings, federal laws and regulations, agency documents and NEW! statutes and regulations from 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• NEW! Simplify your research by creating customized alerts on the latest federal and state regulations. Or use our State Legislative Navigator to create a custom report on legislation in the states and on the topics that matter most to you.
• 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.
• Review health care compliance strategies used in leading health care systems for Medicare and Medicaid billing, HIPAA compliance, and other legal risk areas covered in the Health Care Program Compliance Guide.
• Examine more than 350 settlement agreements — and corresponding corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) — from 2006 to the present in the 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 cases 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.

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