Welcome to the Health Law Section webpage. It is a continuing work in progress as we labor to provide you with a simple and efficient platform to assist you in your healthcare practice. It should provide easy access to the services, publications, CLE, and other benefits available through the Section. Also, please use it to communicate with Section leaders and staff regarding ideas, concerns, or advice on how to improve the Section and this site.

David W. Hilgers's Section Introduction

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• HITECH Business Associates Task Force: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
• The March ABA Health eSource is now available
  • The Pending 21.2 Percent Reduction in Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Payments
  • MLR: The Controversial Calculation Makes Its Appearance In The Health Care Reform Debate
  • Will the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 Successfully Encourage Employers to Provide Benefits for Inpatient Mental Health Treatment?
• Obama releases health reform plan
• Law Student Podcast: How to Prepare for a Career in Health Law | Podcast

ABA Health eSource: March Issue Available Online

The Health Lawyer: February 2010 Edition Available Online
(requires Section membership)

CDC Newsletter is Free!
The CDC Public Health Law News is a free electronic newsletter published monthly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Law Program.

ABA Health Law Section Publications! The second book in our Practical Guide series is now available. A Practical Guide to Medicare Appeals describes the steps necessary to successfully resolve appeals of all types of Medicare determinations. Co-authored by Kathleen Scully-Hayes and Daniel A. Cody.

Health Lawyer
This bi-monthly magazine provides informative articles that focus on a wide range of areas in the health law field and offers incisive analysis of key issues. Read More

ABA Health eSource! This is a monthly eNewsletter available for all members and interested parties.

 

Health Law Section Continuing Legal Education offerings cover a gamut of topics and issues. Read More

 

The American Bar Association (ABA) Health Law Section and the Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLRC) have partnered to further their shared breast cancer legal advocacy goals. The Breast Cancer Task Force is the ABA Health Law Section's premier pro bono effort. Since its inception in 1993, the ABA’s Breast Cancer Task Force has provided information and education on a wide range of legal issues related to women's health, and provided extensive resources to lawyers and consumers dealing with breast cancer.

Go to the Breast Cancer Task Force webpage

Apple iPod, Health Law Edition

The ABA Health Law Section Access to Healthcare Taskforce is providing a series of podcasts that are intended as a service to members of the ABA and the general public to aid in understanding the complex issues addressed in the legislation pending before Congress.Click here to learn more.

• Obama releases health reform plan
• Healthcare Reform Legislative Update 12/30/09 | Podcast
• Introduction to Healthcare Reform Legislative Update (11/24/09) | Podcast
• The complete text of the Manager's Amendment, #3276 to Reid Substitute amendment #2786
• Updated Senate Healthcare Bill
• Please share your questions for future podcasts by clicking here

Click here for additional resources.

The ABA Health Law Section is providing key websites and links for your review that may answer questions you have considering H1N1.

H1N1 Resources

The Health Law Section is looking for firms or organizations that offer summer law student internships. If your firm or organization has openings for interns, please send the name of the entity, whether the internship is paid or unpaid and an email contact to Simeon Carson at carsons@staff.abanet.org. The information will be posted on the Health Law Section Law Student web page as an information service for law students.