Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical Foundation

• Iowa Physicians v. Physicians Insur, (7th Cir. 2008)

... in this case, the Iowa Physicians' Clinic Medical Foundation, which does busi- ness under th...

• Federal Circuits

• Protecting Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism and the Patient-Protective Argument

In this Article I examine “medical tourism”—the travel of patients who are residents of one country to another country for medical treatment—which is fast becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. To date, the primary U.S. medical tourists appear to have been uninsured or underinsured Americans seeking substantial cost savings by traveling to less developed countries for care. More recently, state governments, self-insured firms, Fortune 500 companies, and domestic insurers have begun attempts to get their insured populations to use medical tourism as well by requiring it or giving incentives for its use (what I call “insurer-prompted medical tourism”). There is, however, a dark side to the growth of this industry. In this Article I set out...

... good, as a number of journalists, 1 physicians, 2 and policy makers 3 have recognized. In this ... cancer treatment, Laetrile, in a clinic in Rosarito, Mexico. 5 Moreover, our most outstan...176 A Kaiser Family Foundation survey from 2000 surveyed 2014 adult Americans and...

• Iowa Law Review
• Nbr. 95-5, July 2010

• Medicare Program; Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule, Five-Year Review of Work Relative Value Units, Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule: Signature on Requisition, and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2012

This final rule with comment period addresses changes to the physician fee schedule and other Medicare Part B payment policies to ensure that our payment systems are updated to reflect changes in medical practice and the relative value of services. It also addresses, implements or discusses certain statutory provisions including provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively known as the Affordable Care Act) and the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) of 2008. In addition, this final rule with comment period discusses payments for Part B drugs; Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule: Signature on Requisition; Physician Quality Reporting System; the Electronic Prescribin...

...IV. Allowed Expenditures for Physicians' Services and the Sustainable Growth Rate. A. ... for Manhattan, New York; and Polk County, Iowa, and San Francisco County, California, have incons... topics, as appropriate, to provide a foundation for development of a personalized prevention plan ...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 73026, November 28, 2011
• Rules and Regulations
• Health and Human Services Department

• Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914 (2000)

... except where "necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the [mother's] l... physician who performs abortions in a clinical setting, brought this suit seeking a declaration t... of amici Association of American Physicians and Surgeons et al. that elements of the D&X proce...Brill; for the Naral Foundation et al. by James P. Joseph, Nancy L. Perkins, and...Ryan of Illinois, Thomas J. Miller of Iowa, Jennifer M. Granholm of Michigan, Heidi Heitka...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Achievements

'100 great iowa nurses'Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque announced the following three nurses who have been named among the "100 Great Iowa Nurses. This recognition is awarded by the University of Iowa College of Nursing, The Iowa Nurses Association, Iowa Nurses Foundation, and Iowa Hospital Association to honor nurses across Iowa for their excellence:

...He joined Medical Associates Clinic in 2010 as a hospitalist. He provides care to pati... works closely with patients, families, physicians and hospital staff to deliver expert inpatient med...

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• May 15, 2011

• Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702 (1997)

... suicide." Respondents, four Washington physicians who occasionally treat terminally ill, suffering p... the decision to refuse unwanted medical treatment. And although Casey recognized that many...Ryan of Illinois, Thomas J. Miller of Iowa, Richard P. Ieyoub of Louisiana, J. Joseph Cur-. 7...Ile; for the American Suicide Foundation by Ellen H. Moskowitz, Edward R. Grant, and John F...Planned Parenthood, Sioux Falls Clinic, 517 U. S. 1174 (1996). Upholding the validity of ...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Property, Privacy, and the Pursuit of Interconnected Electronic Medical Records

Who owns a patient's medical information? The patient, the provider, or the insurer? All of the above? None of the above? In the emerging era of electronic medical records, no legal question is more critical, more contested, or more poorly understood. Ownership was never much in doubt in an age of paper-based records, but now that information can be easily digitized and freed from any particular storage medium, confusion reigns. How this issue is resolved can determine how or whether massive anticipated developments in electronic health records will take shape. The respective property rights of patients, providers, and insurers will strongly influence, if not determine, what form of electronic health-record interchange will predominate. And, whether rights to access and use medical inf...

... was supported by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and ... of dollars per year on proprietary clinical IT products that barely work and do not . . . . co... major political parties, to hospitals, physicians, patients, payors, and the business community at l...

• Iowa Law Review
• Nbr. 95-2, February 2010

• The Physician's Immunity Statute: A Botched Operation or a Model Procedure?

The American patent system stems from Article I, Section 8, of the US Constitution, which authorizes Congress to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. The fundamental idea driving the patent system was that Congress wanted to reward inventors with the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or offering to sell their invention in exchange for the inventors' voluntary disclosure of the detailed workings of their discovery to the public. To enforce these exclusive rights, Congress empowered patent holders to bring an infringement suit against persons using, practicing, selling, or offering to sell the invention without obtaining permission from th...

... the government would issue patents for medical procedures, such as a particular incision or sutur... that the Framers foresaw the day when physicians would bring infringement suits against one another...These concerns laid the foundation for numerous congressional debates during the deve... a technology licensing manager at the Mayo Clinic, declined to comment on whether patenting a medica...Copyright University of Iowa, Journal of Corporation Law Spring 2009 Provided b...

• Journal of Corporation Law
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 3, April 2009

• Patients Are Willing to Undergo Multiple Tests for New Cancer Treatments.

Mayo Clinic-Scottsdale Healthcare-TGen study bodes well for th... themselves were asked what tests and medical imaging studies they would be willing to undergo w... patient come first." More than 3,700 physicians, scientists and researchers, and 50,100 allied hea... Minnesota, western Wisconsin and northeast Iowa. These locations treat more than half a million pe... Institute and Scottsdale Healthcare Foundation. For additional information, please visit www.shc....

• Business Wire
• March 04, 2011

• Medicare Program:

... systems are updated to reflect changes in medical practice and the relative value of services. It al... center payment system and the ambulance, clinical laboratory, and durable medical equipment prosthet...(2) Reports to Individual Physicians b. Refinement of the Physician Feedback Program in...County, Iowa, and 17 counties in Virginia. The two rural sites ... results of the HRA will provide the foundation for and facilitate development of the personalized...

• FR, July 19, 2011
• Proposed rules
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services