The Week in Health Law

Georgia State Professor of Law Erin Fusee Brown makes a welcome return to the podcast. Our discussion centered on surprise medical bills (including balance billing),“inscrutable price opacity,” and medical debt collection, This is a difficult area and one that the ACA only began to confront. Looking forward, our consensus was that increasingly this will become the province of “bifurcated” state laws acting, of course, under the specter of ERISA preemption.

We welcome University of Missouri-Columbia law professor Sam Halabi who brings a wealth of academic and practical experience to the podcast. As the conversation evidences he is interested in corporate governance and regulation at both national and international levels.

We welcome University of Missouri-Columbia law professor Sam Halabi who brings a wealth of academic and practical experience to the podcast. As the conversation evidences he is interested in corporate governance and regulation at both national and international levels.

This week we are honored to have a conversation with Professor Tim Jost from Washington & Lee School of Law. Jost, one of our most prolific scholars and astute commentators, not to mention the rock around which the Health Affairs blog is built, looks back at the successes and failures of the ACA, speculates on some of the reasons for its rocky road, and looks ahead to repeal and replacement.

This week we are honored to have a conversation with Professor Tim Jost from Washington & Lee School of Law. Jost, one of our most prolific scholars and astute commentators, not to mention the rock around which the Health Affairs blog is built, looks back at the successes and failures of the ACA, speculates on some of the reasons for its rocky road, and looks ahead to repeal and replacement.

Our irreverent but also quite serious annual survey of who or what has been nice or naughty in health law and policy during the last year. Our experts make some great picks and dig deep into the underlying policy coal and candy. Plus, of course, our “surprise” bonus round as we pick who we would like to welcome singing carols outside our homes! Great thanks to Professors Nicole Huberfeld (University of Kentucky College of Law), Elizabeth Weeks Leonard (University of Georgia School of Law), Lindsay Wiley (American University Washington College of Law), Jessica Roberts (University of Houston Law Center), and Glenn Cohen (Harvard law School).

Our irreverent but also quite serious annual survey of who or what has been nice or naughty in health law and policy during the last year. Our experts make some great picks and dig deep into the underlying policy coal and candy. Plus, of course, our “surprise” bonus round as we pick who we would like to welcome singing carols outside our homes! Great thanks to Professors Nicole Huberfeld (University of Kentucky College of Law), Elizabeth Weeks Leonard (University of Georgia School of Law), Lindsay Wiley (American University Washington College of Law), Jessica Roberts (University of Houston Law Center), and Glenn Cohen (Harvard law School).

A conversation with University of Tennessee Professor Zack Buck. His recent research proposes an interesting fiduciary approach to dealing with the problem of over-treatment and also ponders the best way to deal with the "financial toxicity” that results from related phenomena.

We are joined by UNC law professor Richard Saver who presents his new research on the Sunshine Law that was part of the ACA. His findings are fascinating and inevitably led to a broader discussion of the worth of transparency-based regulation.

Loyola Chicago law professor Jordan Paradise joins us to discuss some of her recent work in life sciences law. We start with a review of some of the regulatory issues involving e-cigarettes and discuss the 2016 FDA regulations. We then move into a discussion of FDA regulation of biologics and biosimilars and Jordan explains naming and substitution issues.

We talk to medical sociologist Dr. Jill Fisher about her cutting edge research about clinical research participants and its implications for informed consent and IRB oversight. Before that a quick rant about post-election healthcare law and policy!

A conversation with UCLA law professor Russell Korobkin about his proposal to use cost effectiveness analysis to set up personal choices as to how to determine personal expenditures on insurance coverage. The conversation is broad-ranging and includes discussion of moral hazard, consumer-directed healthcare, the UK’s NICE agency, autonomy and the role of market approaches. Plus, of course, a lightning round!

A conversation with Loyola-Chicago law professor Larry Singer about hospital inequality, Medicaid expansion, and state budget crises, together with some predictions about the post-election landscape. A full-on lightning round involved drug policy, AI, EU privacy, and a novel way to get a glimpse of a hospital charge master.

A conversation with UCLA law professor Allison Hoffman about her new article that suggests a new social insurance model for long term care and reframes the risk involved as that suffered by the elderly person’s “next- friend.” Plus a fast-moving lightning round on physicians’ political affiliations, PHI in the cloud, and nursing home arbitration clauses together with a plea for TWIHL listeners to contribute to “Partners in Health.”

A conversation with UC Davis Law Professor Lisa Ikemoto about repro tech markets, CRISPR, and interdisciplinary values and communication.