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19 Aug, 2007 10:47 am
A warm welcome to Secretary Mike Leavitt (blog bio) who last week launched his blog at Secretary Mike Leavitt's Blog. It is wonderful to see the United States top health care official join the blogospere and create a vehicle to share ... way to create
traditional media/PR web content. It's the reason why I enjoy the blogging process. Question to readers: Is Secretary Leavitt the highest
ranking U.S. official to date to have a blog which is personally written? Are there any other Federal Executive ...
8 Feb, 2007 7:40 am
On February 7, 2007, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Michael Leavitt, testified before the Senate Committee
on Finance regarding HHS' FY 2008 budget request. In that testimony, Secretary Leavitt ... growth rate over that time period from 6.5 percent
to 5.6 percent. In yesterday's testimony, Secretary Leavitt also indicated that a host of Medicare administrative reforms (aimed at
strengthening program integrity, improving efficiency and productivity, and reducing ...
13 Dec, 2004 2:11 pm
[JURIST] President Bush nominated Environmental Protection Agency chief Mike Leavitt Monday to serve as secretary of the Department of Health
and Human Services. Leavitt, a former three-term governor of Utah, stepped into the EPA role in 2003, and much of his work has focused on
crafting new air pollution regulations. HHS oversees the Medicare and Medicaid health programs, as well as several
2 Apr, 2004 8:13 am
In environmental law news for Friday, UPI reports that EPA administrator Mike Leavitt is standing by the Bush administration's efforts to limit
mercury emissions from power plants. In response to allegations that the agency is seeking to roll back control regulations, Leavitt told a
Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee that such accusations are "unfair" as there has never been a
25 Oct, 2008 1:41 pm
I am not, as a general rule, a fan of historical novels, but I recently finished The Indian Clerk, by David Leavitt, and I am almost done with
The Given Day, Dennis Lehane's new novel. What these books have in common is that they are full of real historical characters doing imagined things. In The Indian [...]
17 Dec, 2008 9:42 pm
HHS Secretary Leavitt announced Monday new key privacy principles for electronic health information exchange. In addition, HHS's Office of
Civil Rights published new HIPAA Privacy Rule guidance, which provides important clarifying information on how the Privacy Rule governs covered entities engaged in electronic health
information exchange. For example, it clarifies when covered entities must enter into business associate agreements with health information exchanges; it also makes clear that ...
20 Dec, 2008 5:31 am
CDT: "HHS Secretary Leavitt announced new key privacy principles for electronic health information exchange. In addition, HHSs Office of
Civil...
30 Mar, 2007 9:13 am
Signed March 26, 2007. Opinion and Order by Judge Richard D. Bennett. Memorandum and Opinion granting summary judgment in part. Held: 1) A federal employee can seek relief for
employment discrimination only by asserting causes of action under Title VII. 2) Not being nominated for a discretionary merit-based award may constitute an adverse employment action
actionable under Title VII if the plaintiff can show that such a determination represents a decision on permanent pay status. Facts: ...
7 Apr, 2007 3:48 am
Order Signed April 6, 2007--Judge Andre M. Davis. Approved for publication. Plaintiff Glaxo Group, Ltd., sought and obtained a temporary restraining order (TRO), which was secured by a
$3 million bond, enjoining the effectiveness of the approval by the Food and Drug Administration of an application by intervening defendant Roxane Laboratories, Inc. (Roxane), to market
fluticasone propionate, the generic form of Glaxo's patented Flonase, the patent for which had expired. Subsequently, after a ...
24 Apr, 2007 9:06 am
Filed April 23, 2007. Order by Judge Andre M. Davis (approved for publication). In a follow-up to an earlier opinion (discussed here on this blog), an intervenor in the case, Roxane
Laboratories, Inc. ("Roxane"), filed a motion requesting the court to recall the earlier opinion and substitute a redacted version which would omit historical net profit information as
being "proprietary" and "highly confidential". The court declined the request, noting that Roxane's request had come not only after ...
2 Jan, 2008 9:46 am
According to transcripts of the sessions, the governor, his top staff and trusted advisers met at the governor's mansion to discuss holy scripture and how its principles could be
incorporated into government policy. The meetings were opened with prayer. Sounds like the Religious Right's dream, right? Surely, Pat Robertson, James Dobson and Tony Perkins will be
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19 May, 2008 10:39 am
My initial reaction to this case was: "Disputed corporate Medicare reimbursement as applied to depreciation losses resulting from the disposal of assets through a statutory merger:
Thrilling!" Of course, I was being facetious. But, to my horror, I did actually find the case to be marginally interesting. It seemed to me a close question as to whether the merger of
the two non-profit hospitals at issue here -- RFK Medical Center (formerly in Hawthorne, now closed) and Catholic Heathcare West -- ...
23 Nov 12:30 am
... Crime Center". Renfrow v. State, supra. It also noted that the two Cyber Crime Center analysts (Sullivan and Leavitt) testified that the
Center's "first priority was to maintain the integrity of the original hard drive". Renfrow v. State, supra. ... drive and examined the copy. The intended purpose behind examining the
copy was to protect the integrity of the original hard drive. Leavitt made a similar duplicate copy for Renfrow's expert to examine. Again, the
specific purpose of making a copy was ...
23 Nov 2:00 am
... from E. coli in spinach to melamine-tainted pet food. Last summer Acheson transitioned to the private sector to work for Leavitt Partners,
a consulting firm founded by former U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael O. Leavitt, ... excited about new legislation, was a
fairly big step. It was during that process that I interacted directly with the secretary of HHS, secretary Mike Leavitt, talking to him in
pretty straightforward terms, saying "we've got to do this, we've got to require ...
5 Jun, 2008 9:49 pm
... quit their jobs on the same date (June 3rd). The boy was last seen by a friend, after the boy was dropped off at Leavitt's house on the
evening of June 3rd. Due to all of the circumstances, investigators believe that the boy may be in the company ... The boy's name is not being released due to the nature of the
investigation and his juvenile status. When investigators went to arrest Leavitt, they found that she had fled from her residence prior to
their arrival, and also had taken her children with ...
19 Feb, 2008 12:15 pm
... shows that private law could exercise no less of a power over the religious imagination. And a bit more from the text: The case of Leavitt
v. Birdsall illustrates these problems.268 The Birdsall family moved from Nebraska to Utah in 1881, eventually settling ... . And skipping a bit: Upon his return to Utah, Isaac
Birdsall, acting as guardian for his daughter, sued Leavitt for the disputed land, arguing that the deed Cora had executed was invalid. The
district court rejected his claim that she was ...
1 Apr, 2008 12:49 pm
... the members of such family. This example may have derived in part from the controversy over Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt's family charitable foundation, The Dixie and Anne Leavitt Foundation. The Leavitt Foundation ... a genealogical book for sale, erecting monuments to deceased family members, and paying for a genealogical trek commemorating the path
of Leavitt ancestors. The new example makes clear that such activities primarily serve the private interests of the members of one ...
5 Oct, 2007 5:14 am
... both estates for $130,000. Thereafter, plaintiffs filed the instant legal malpractice action, contending that Leavitt-Gruberger negligently
drafted the will. Plaintiffs asserted that when taken as a whole, the provisions of Part "B" failed to unambiguously ... while Grace was still alive." Further, because "trustees owe a
fiduciary duty to all beneficiaries," Leavitt-Gruberger placed plaintiffs in an unsupportable position as trustees, by advising them to
distribute trust assets to themselves, as ...
22 Aug, 2008 4:12 pm
... they object to abortion. "Freedom of conscience is not to be surrendered upon issuance of a medical degree," said Leavitt. "This nation was
built on a foundation of free speech. The first principle of free speech is protected conscience." The proposed ... that pro-life medical personnel will not be forced to engage in the
unconscionable killing of innocent human life." Leavitt said the regulation was intended to protect practitioners who have moral objections to
abortion and sterilization, and ...
23 Oct, 2007 3:22 pm
... featured an interview today with Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, who was the first cabinet secretary to
begin blogging professionally. He talks with Melissa Block ... he's learned about the process since he began in August, and how it has contributed to shaping his opinions.
Leavitt's blog is called simply Secretary Mike ... reading, check out his recent posts about SCHIP and their comments. Leavitt has given his blogging experience a six-week evaluation, in which he ...
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