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Guide to a Proactive Healthcare Cybersecurity Stance

Healthcare IT Today

For a healthcare entity, the data and information are viewed as extremely valuable as it includes PII as well as other health information that can be used for insurance fraud and identity theft. Troy serves clients in a variety of industries including communications and media, technology, health care, and higher education.

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CMS Proposes Minimum Staffing Requirements and Enhanced Facility Assessments for Nursing Homes

C&M Health Law

The proposed rule represents the first time the federal government has proposed comprehensive nationwide nursing home staffing requirements, although various states have already enacted their own staffing requirements. The 2001 recommendation of 4.1 Proposed Staffing Standard – 3.0 hours of nursing staff per resident per day, or 3.0

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Stupid Expert Tricks Redux

Drug & Device Law

2001) (Kilburn); and Wade-Greaux v. I-Flow Corp. , 2d 1092, 1119-25 (D. 2010) (Matsen); Nelson v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. 1998 WL 1297690, at *4, 7-8 (W.D. 31, 1998), aff’d , 243 F.3d 3d 244 (6th Cir. Whitehall Laboratories, Inc. , 1441, 1559-62 (D.V.I. 1994), aff’d mem. , 3d 1120 (3d Cir. 1994) (Gilbert). It got worse.

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Thinking About the FDA’s Alternative Summary Reporting Program

Drug & Device Law

341 (2001). So, if a plaintiff contends that a defendant abused the ASR program, that is a Buckman -preempted fraud on the FDA claim. Conversely, violation claims involving the ASR program are paradigmatic examples of agency fraud/private FDCA enforcement that are impliedly preempted by Buckman.

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Buckman Preempts Claims Despite State’s Adoption of the FDCA as State Law

Drug & Device Law

341 (2001), stands for the proposition that only the federal government may enforce the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and that any state-law claim that depends on the existence of the FDCA is impliedly preempted by 21 U.S.C. § Plaintiffs’ Legal Committee , 531 U.S. Plaintiffs constantly try to evade Buckman. Medtronic, Inc. ,

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Logical Contradiction Doctrine:  Buckman for Textualists

Drug & Device Law

341 (2001), with the rejection of the so-called “purposes and objectives” prong of implied preemption by the most conservative justices (at least in terms of federalism) on the Court. Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S. Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S. Mensing , 564 U.S. Mensing , 564 U.S. Lohr , 518 U.S.

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