Sat.Apr 19, 2014 - Fri.Apr 25, 2014

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: To Be "Clearly Established" or Not "Clearly Established": That Is the Question

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Our guest author of this is article is Steve Friedman, a legal research attorney with National Legal Research Group in Charlottesville, Virginia. The doctrine of qualified immunity shields governmental officials "from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights." Harlow v.

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Physicians React to the Release of Medicare Reimbursements

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By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law For years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) kept private its records on Medicare reimbursement payments made to physicians, however, on April 9, 2014, that all changed. The government released records revealing unprecedented details about Medicare payments made to physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs) and other health care providers.