Maryland Medical Law Report Legal news for the medical community

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine Sen. Angus King is joining a group of legislators who want to allow safe importation of prescription drugs into the U.S. King, an independent, is helping introduce a bill designed to lower the cost of the ...

LANSING, Mich. — Bipartisan legislation that would increase payments to medical providers for treating sexual assault victims is advancing in Michigan’s Legislature. The Senate unanimously sent the bills to the House Thursday. One measure would require the Crime Victim Services ...

Missouri has begun accepting applications from people hoping to work as “assistant physicians” under a 2014 law intended to address a shortage of doctors. The Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts spent about two-and-a-half years developing the rules ...

Operators of a northwest Iowa nursing home that authorities ordered to close have agreed to pay $100,000 to settle allegations that they provided worthless care. Federal prosecutors said in a January news release that The Abbey of Le Mars Inc. ...

The Kansas Health System is seeking an exemption from a state law that that would allow adults to carry concealed handguns in its medical school and attached hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. Officials from the health system testified in January before ...

New York state is setting aside nearly $20 million to assist local health care providers looking to expand or upgrade their facilities, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in January. The new Community Health Care Revolving Fund is intended to help community ...

Connecticut’s attorney general is suing a Stamford doctor and her husband, alleging they took part in a scam to sell medically unnecessary custom-made prescription drug creams. The lawsuit alleges that UConn employee Kwasi Gyambibi, of Stamford and his wife, Dr. ...

Health officials have begun providing quality and price data online for Indiana’s 50 most frequently performed outpatient procedures. The information is included on MyCareINsight.org, which the Indiana Hospital Association launched in 2015, The Journal Gazette reported. The site already included ...