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  • Health Care Law Blog  
    "Keeping an eye on health care law. Thoughts and comments on the health care industry, privacy, security, technology and other odds and ends. ...
  • Health Care Law Blog
    "This blog will primarily focus on topics that are of interest to health care practitioners, providers and others working in the health care realm. Under that broad heading, this blog will provide articles related to Health Care Reform, HIPAA, HITECH, Compliance, Regulations, specific Providers, Billing/Payment, Medicare."
  • Health Care Lawyer Blog 
    News, events, and recent developments in health care law
  • Health Blawg
    Covers health care legislation and regulations (both at the federal level and in his home state of Massachusetts) as well as public health innovations in the private sector.
  • HealthLawProf Blog
    Features health law news and information, including analysis of the FDA and the healthcare industry.
  • The Health Law Firm Blog
    "The Health Law Blog provides analysis, comment, information and updates regarding health care legislation, enforcement and regulation." Blog is written for an audience of health care professionals.
  • The Health Law Sidebar
    "Provides readers with the latest regulatory and statutory updates from the industry, and also highlights news items of interest across the health care field."
  • The Healthcare Investor
    "Insights on issues and trends that impact investments in healthcare and life sciences business."
  • Health in Minnesota
    A Health Care Resource for Minnesotans 
  • The Lown Conversation
    Exploring the health care crisis through intergenerational conversation between Dr. Bernard Lown, a cardiologist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and his granddaughter Melanie Lown, a communications professional (and modern patient).
  • Nursing Law & Order
    This blawg provides commentary on the legal, professional, ethical and clinical practice issues and trends facing nurses.
  • Pennsylvania Physician Law and Finance Blog
    "Law and financial topics of interest to Pennsylvania physicians."
  • Singularity Health Law
    Dedicated to health-care law issues in or affecting the Rocky Mountain West.

Fraud & Abuse

  • False Claims Act/Qui Tam
    "Current developments in whistle-blower lawsuits brought under the False Claims Act and other news."
  • GovtFraudLawyer
    "Focuses on keeping qui tam lawyers and whistle-blowers up to date on changes in the law as it relates to the False Claims Act and other anti-fraud statutes."
  • Health Care Fraud Blog
    Provides health care fraud legal news, resources, and commentary. 

Finance & Organization

  • Beyond Health Care Reform
    "Examines the impact of new rules and regulations affecting employters, group health plans, and health care providers, as well as insurance contracts and all aspects of plan design and coverage."
  • Gould and Lamb Medicare Compliance Blog
    Blog discusses Medicare compliance. Recent entries include "Chronic Pain Conditions Impact on Future Care" and "Can REM Programs Solve Healthcare Prescription Drug Abuse Dilemma?"
  • GreisGuide to LTACHs
    "Provides timely news, articles, white papers, and event information to members of the Long Term Acute Care Hospital community, including health care executives, physicians and patients alike." Health Care Court rulings, legislation and laws related to health care.
  • Health Care at the High Court
    Posts analyze the constitutionality of the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and of the possible outcomes of the United State Department of Health and Human Services v. State of Florida and National Federation of Independent Business v. Kathleen Sebelius, which will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court from March 26-28.
  • Health Care Compliance Watch
    Blog discusses health law, primarily in New York and New Jersey.  Topics include Medicare and Medicaid, electronic health records, HIPAA and health care compliance.
  • Health Care Justice Blog
    "A comprehensive resource about inequity and barriers in the U.S. health care system, and how the law impacts health care access: news stories, legal developments, regulatory action, health reform, policy reports and more..."
  • Health Care Reform
    "Key materials and tools to help readers understand developing legal issues as health care reform evolves.  As legislation develops, our industry leaders comment on how proposals affect their business, what they would like to see in the proposal, and much more."
  • Health Industry Washington Watch
    "Updates on U.S. legislative and regulatory developments affecting the life sciences and health care industry sector."
  • Health Law Attorney Blog
    "Focuses on developments in health care law-related issues including RACs, Stark law, anti-kickback law, HIPAA, compliance, health law news, and recent proposed and enacted legislation and regulations."
  • Health Reform Watch
    "Seeks to provide an open forum for academics, medical professionals, policy makers, journalists, lawyers, students and concerned citizens as we, as a country, attempt to navigate the imperative of health care reform."
  • Healthcare Integration Advisors
    "Summary and analysis of legal developments that are of interest to hospitals, health systems, physician groups, health plans, and others in the healthcare field." Topics include data privacy, recent legislation, Medicare and Medicaid, labor an employment law and corporate compliance.
  • Healthcare Neutral ADR Blog
    Posts discuss issues and developments at the intersection of alternative dispute resolution and healthcare law.
  • HIPAA Blog
    HIPAA Blog describes itself as "a discussion of medical privacy issues buried in political arcana." HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
  • HIPAA News
    This blawg provides Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance management resources like training, Webinars, Webcasts, conferences, seminars, audio conferences, training, white papers, resources, software, books, articles, forms, checklist, policies, standards, audiocast, PowerPoint, rules and regulations, news, jobs and "ask the expert."
  • Managed Care Contracting and Provider Payment
    This blawg is intended for health care providers and practitioners to discuss and exchange information on payment topics. Health insurers and managed care companies are free to participate as well.  We will address issues that arise in the relationship between providers and insurers.
  • Medical & Pharmacy Attorneys
    This blawg is devoted to legal issues affecting health care providers in New York. It covers topics related to new developments in federal and state laws and other topics of interst.

Quality & Liability

  • California Attorneys Representing Licensed, Regulated and Other Professionals
    "Articles and thoughts from attorneys who specialize in vigorously representing professionals in administrative, civil, business, regulatory and criminal matters. We also write about helping professional businesses and individuals comply with governmental regulations."
  • California Healthcare Law
    "News and legal developments of interest for California health care providers." Harry Nelson
  • Complementary & Alternative Medicine Law Blog
    This blawg "offers new perspectives on medicine and the way legal boundaries shape healing." There are also posts covering medical news and research, as well as news and daily life in the Caribbean.
  • Defense of Medicine
    "Focuses on legal issues faced by hospitals, physician groups, and physicians, inluding regulatory obligations and litigation risk."
  • DisAbility Rights Galaxy
    "DisAbility Rights Galaxy is a cross disability, blog (and networking portal) where we cover disability rights issues including current cases, legal articles, and legislative actions. We also review law review articles on disability rights issues and publish original articles."
  • FMLA Insights
    Posts cover significant court decisions related to the Family and Medical Leave Act; the act's little-known rules and provisions; and proposed changes to FMLA regulations.
  • Garlo Ward, P.C.
    Discussions of federal and state legal standards and case decisions of interest to health law practitioners, with a special focus on Texas.
  • Medical Futility
    "Tracks judicial, legislative, policy, and academic developments concerning medical futility and the limits on individual autonomy at the end of life."
  • My Disability Blog
    My Disability Blog has information applying for Social Security disability benefits and has links to stories about problems with the application process.
  • Repo(sess) Repro(ductive) Justice
    "Look for posts here about everything from women in prison to midwifery and doulas to Supreme Court decisions to transgender rights.
  • Syracruse Medical Malpractice Lawyer Blog
    Examines medical malpratice cases, reports and news in New York.
  • The Patient Tort Report
    Covers news stories and trail outcomes for pharmaceutical injury cases.
  • Texas Medical Malpractice Update
    "New and noteworthy Texas health-care liability cases." Posts are generally short summaries of recent health law cases or links to outside articles.
  • Texas Nursing Lawyer
    "Texas Nursing Lawyer covers trends and events affecting nursing in Texas and beyond." The author hosts webinars and live-blogs during certain meetings.
  • VA & NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Attorneys Blog
    Blog focuses on medical malpractice cases, and drug and product liability. Most posts are a summary of recently settled cases from around the country, especially on the East Cost.
  • Virginia Brain/Head Injury Lawyers
    Blog deals with issues of traumatic brain injuries, concussions and spinal injuries caused by accidents. Some posts describe cases in the news, others talk about new research or legislation.
  • Virginia Disability Law Blog
    "Provides information on social security disability law, special needs planning, wills, living wills, powers of attorney and special needs trusts."

Life Sciences and Public Health

  • BioLaw: Law and the Life Sciences
    "Environmental law, natural resources law, agricultural law, food and drug law, biotechnology, law and neuroscience, behavioral psychology and evolutionary biology, health law, bioethics."
  • E. coli Blog
    "Surveillance and analysis on E. coli news and outbreaks."
  • FDA Law Blog
    This blog covers topics of interest to Food and Drug Administration-regulated companies, fellow food and drug and health-care lawyers and regulatory personnel, as well as people just generally interested in FDA law. The blog provides timely updates on FDA enforcement actions, proposed rules, personnel changes, new and improved policies, along with related issues such as health-care fraud and abuse, drug and device reimbursement, HIPAA, and other topics of interest.
  • FDA Lawyers Blog
    "Designed to help the legal community learn about current issues, decisions, debates and various important subjects concerning the Food and Drug Administration."
  • Food Law Prof Blog
    Covers food-related law, including farming, food safety, nutrition, health, cloning and product labeling.
  • Food Poison Journal
    "Surveillance and analysis on food poison news and outbreaks."
  • Food Safety and Risk Management
    "Food Safety and Risk Management includes posts regarding current and emerging food safety issues, such as how to prevent and respond to food recalls." Blog is geared towards a food service industry audience, but also has food safety tips for consumers.
  • Food Safety News
    "Global food safety news and information." Posts cover reports, studies and penalties issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; food recalls; and food safety-related job listsings and conferences.
  • gatewayFDA
    "Provides analysis, commentary, and resources to help foreign pharmaceutical and medical device companies make sense of the ever-evolving FDA regulations and understand the complete range of U.S. legal issues that may complicate bringing a drug, medical device, or other FDA-regulated product or service to market in the United States."
  • Genomics Law Report
    "News and analysis from the intersection of genomics, personalized medicine and the law."
  • Life Sciences Legal Update
    "Analysis and commentary on trends and developments in life sciences in health care law."
  • Marler Blog
    "Providing commentary on food poisoning outbreaks and litigation." Daily updates on food-borne illness reports and resulting nationwide product recalls as well as commentary on what governments and corporations should do as far as responding to current outbreaks and preventing future outbreaks.
  • NutriSupLaw
    "Nutritional and dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, herbs, functional foods and beverages, energy drinks, cosmetics and the law. We address FDA and FTC regulation, intellectual property litigation, criminal investigations, and other legal issues facing dietary supplement companies."
  • The United States Agricultural & Food Law and Policy Blog
    "Frequently updated with news, information and resource items about agricultural law and policy and food law and policy."