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Ferd H. Mitchell wrote a new blog post: New health insurance subsidy program likely to result in widespread confusion 6 months, 3 weeks ago · View
The “premium subsidy program” under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is intended to make it feasible for limited-income individuals to purchase individual health insurance coverage. But patients are going to need extensive attorney help to cope with program requirements. The new individual mandate requires coverage, and the concept is to “ease” this demand with partial premium support, [...] -
Ferd H. Mitchell wrote a new blog post: Expanded medical coding rules to be implemented for diagnoses, treatment, and procedures: What does it mean for patients? 6 months, 3 weeks ago · View
“Medical coding” sounds like a “back-office” aspect of health care that is not really of everyday interest to most attorneys, but the reality is very different. Efforts are being made to computerize the practice of medicine, and all patients will be directly affected. New regulations have recently been released to move forward this vision of “categorized care” [...] -
Ferd H. Mitchell wrote a new blog post: New Medicare Shared Savings program likely to create conflict for physicians: Impact on malpractice? 7 months, 2 weeks ago · View
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is moving ahead with a Medicare Shared Savings Program that is intended to change physician behavior. Physicians are being placed in the position balancing off patient wishes and needs—on one side—against an opportunity to receive bonus payments for reducing services on the other side. The result will be conflict [...] -
Ferd H. Mitchell wrote a new blog post: Public perception issues and potential ramifications of the Supreme Court decision 11 months, 1 week ago · View
(Editor’s Note: This is part one of a four-part installment on ” How the New Health Care Plan Has Been Misunderstood, Misrepresented, and Mismanaged”.) Americans place significant value on the diversity of options in the health care system. This includes variety among providers as well as among insurers and other payment options. The New Health Care Plan has been painted [...] -
Ferd H. Mitchell wrote a new blog post: The interests of critics and advocates are difficult to assess – as the Supreme Court debates a ruling on the new Health Plan 1 year ago · View
The new Health Plan is producing widespread conflict among individuals and organizations affected by the ongoing redesign of the Health Care System (as discussed in Legal Practice Implications of the New U.S. National Health Care Plan, 2011-2012 Edition , by Mitchell and Mitchell, published by Thomson Reuters/Westlaw). As a result of distractions over the past year due to the [...] -
Ferd H. Mitchell wrote a new blog post: Worries about the U.S. Health Care System – As the Supreme Court Debates a Ruling on the New Health Plan 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Based on the three days of oral arguments before the Supreme Court, the ruling to be made regarding the new national Health Care Plan (the Affordable Care Act) appears to be impossible to predict —options range from finding the law fully constitutional to fully unconstitutional, and include a range of in-between rulings that could discard parts of [...]
