Maryland Medical Law Report Legal news for the medical community

Regulations published by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that describe how employers offering workplace wellness programs can comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) went into effect Jan. 1. ADA rules ...

High rate increase requests have left health insurance regulators in Maryland with this challenge: At a time when insurers are pulling out of the individual markets in state after state, how high can you allow them to raise their prices without inflicting ...

As health care systems continue to shift toward becoming comprehensive medical homes for patients, health care providers are increasingly incorporating lawyers into the team of professionals who are on hand to help people at no additional charge to patients. Roughly ...

As President Donald Trump and his administration look to repeal the Affordable Care Act and make deep cuts to Medicaid, a new study showed evidence that Medicaid expansion has decreased the number of uninsured in rural areas of the country. ...

Kansas legislators have given final approval to a bill aimed at keeping concealed guns out of state hospitals and other public health facilities. The House approved the measure on a 91-33 vote June 1 only hours after the Senate passed ...

Managers at an eastern Kentucky ambulance service have been indicted for writing false bills that cost a pair of taxpayer-funded health insurance programs more than $1 million. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports a Breathitt County grand jury on June 2 indicted three people ...

The Iowa Supreme Court says the parents of a severely disabled child can sue medical providers for failing to warn of fetal abnormalities that would have caused the mother to have an abortion. The June 2 ruling marks the first ...

Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen sign a new standing order June 1 making an antidote that reverses the effects of opioids available over the counter. The order makes the medication, called naloxone, readily available to residents. Previously, a training ...

Gov. Larry Hogan has allowed to become law a measure that gives the state attorney general the power to sue generic drug manufacturers over price gouging. Hogan, in a letter released in late May, said the prescription drug bill raised ...

Health insurers that integrate with providers to create an easy process for members score the highest on customer satisfaction, according to a new study from J.D. Power. Maryland insurers scored highest for customer satisfaction among the regions separated by the ...