The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), passed by the Senate on Dec. 24, 2009, and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, is the basis for the U.S’s current experiment in health care reform.
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The proposals for comprehensive health care reform currently being considered by the U.S. Congress are extensive. Comprehensive reform will likely cost between $800 billion and $900 billion. To pay for this undertaking, Congress is fundamentally restructuring tax policy, provider payments and insurance markets.
Following a year of extreme economic turmoil, lawmakers in Washington have turned their attention to the reform of an industry that the Wall Street Journal called “one of the brightest spots in an otherwise gloomy economy”—the health care industry.
Long-term care facilities continue to be battered by a barrage of financial challenges, and there seems to be no end in sight. Most recently and at the forefront in today’s news is the impact of the proposed health care reform on long-term care facilities.
The addition of §333 to the Bankruptcy Code as part of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA)generated significant controversy because it mandates the appointment of a patient care ombudsman (PCO) if the debtor is a health care business, unless the court finds that “the appointment of such ombudsman is not necessary for the protection of patients u
ABI’s Health Care Triage: 2009 conference on June 26, 2009, in Chicago was a great success. Co-sponsored by the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy at the Loyola University Chicago Law School, the conference was the first stand-alone health care conference sponsored by ABI. The partnership between Loyola and ABI for the conference proved very fruitful.
Employers are now realizing that unfunded post-retirement medical liabilities can “break the bank.” The magnitude of unfunded retiree medical liabilities has increased dramatically and has become a significant item on the corporate balance sheets of many employers.
In In re Lane,( George Lane, et. Al v. Western Interstate Bancorp), 280 F.3d 663 (6th Cir. 2002), the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, following the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Nobleman v. American Savings Bank, 508 U.S. 324, 113 S.Ct.
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) added a new provision regarding personal property leases, §365(p), which provides:
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a bankruptcy court’s decision to dismiss a chapter 7 case pursuant to §707(b)(3) in In re Egebjerg.[1] The bankruptcy court concluded that the debtor’s loan from his §401(k) plan was a secured loan, repayment of which can be expensed pursuant to §707(b)(2)(A)(iii)
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