Healthcare Legislation

imagingBiz | How the majority of provisions from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will affect health care (in general) and radiology (in particular) remains to be seen; with the most sweeping changes still pending in the coming years, providers are holding their breaths. Ed Gaines, chief compliance officer for Medical Management Professionals [...]

imagingBiz | Well, it happened: In a surprise ruling, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of health-care reform by interpreting the individual mandate as a tax. The full decision is well worth reading, but the upshot is that starting in 2015, our already beleaguered—some would say broken—health-care system will take on up to 30 million [...]

Introduction With the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Constitutional legality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care providers are asking questions about how the Act will affect their practices. Those who work in radiology services are certainly no exception. Modern medicine, after all, relies on radiology far more than it did in the [...]

As an active member of the ONRAD management team, an officer of the company, and a 3rd year part-time law student at the University of San Diego School of Law, I have had little time to read the newspaper. That is unfortunate. Well, my law school semester just ended yesterday, and I picked up the [...]

Today was the final day of oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court on the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Again, the audio, transcripts, and scholarly responses can be found here: America Health Lawyers Association Blog. There were essentially two sets of arguments today, in two separate sessions. In the first session, the [...]