The Supreme Court’s other business

The intense attention paid to the U.S. Supreme Court’s March 26-28 consideration of the health system reform law overshadowed several other health care cases that have wide-ranging implications on medical care.

In addition to its comprehensive coverage of the health reform oral arguments, American Medical News reported on these recent Supreme Court decisions of great interest to physicians and other health professionals. The justices struck down patents on a medical test that measures patients’ metabolite levels. They sent a lawsuit by California physicians and others against Medicaid pay cuts back to a lower court for further consideration. And justices sided with drugmakers in separate cases involving the sale of physician information and liability for labeling errors.

see AMAnews article for details: http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/04/09/edsa0409.htm