Stephen retired from Mintz in 2023. He was a Founding Chair and Member of the firm's Health Law Practice.
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HPC Weighs in on Impact of Question 1
November 1, 2018 | Advisory | By Elissa Flynn-Poppey, Cassandra Paolillo, Stephen Weiner
This article discusses a Massachusetts Health Policy Commission report on the impact of Questions 1, the proposed Nurse Staffing Ratio Mandate.
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The Health Policy Commission’s Annual Cost Trends Hearings
November 1, 2016 | Alert | By Steven Baddour, Daniel Connelly, Julie Cox, Daria Niewenhous, Stephen Weiner, Maxwell Fathy, Elena Horvit, Parnia Zahedi
The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission conducted its fourth annual Cost Trends Hearing on October 17 and 18, 2016, under the requirements of Massachusetts’s 2012 health care reform legislation (“Chapter 224”).
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Tackling the Dragon of Hospital Price Disparity: Massachusetts's On-Going Efforts to Address Price Equity
June 8, 2016 | Alert | By Stephen Weiner
Price disparities among hospitals pose one of the more intractable issues for policy makers, regulators and the government. That they exist is indisputable. Why they exist is a source of much contention.
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Thirteen Ways to Contain Health Care Costs in Massachusetts: The Health Policy Commission Issues Its 2015 Report and Recommendations
January 27, 2016 | Alert | By Stephen Weiner
In 2012 Massachusetts adopted the most recent in a series of comprehensive legislative approaches to health care reform, Chapter 224 of the Acts of 2012 (Chapter 224), which focused especially on addressing the drivers of health care costs in the Commonwealth.
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Massachusetts Health Care Reform – Full Speed Ahead; Health Policy Commission 2015 Cost Trends Report
January 27, 2016 | Blog | By Daria Niewenhous
The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) has issued its 2015 Cost Trends Report, based on the HPC’s annual health care cost growth hearings.
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Drug Costs, Risk Adjustment Drive Q2 Health Insurance Rate Increases
January 26, 2016 | Advisory | By Julie Cox, Stephen Weiner, Sasha Dudding
The Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) recently held a two-day hearing on rate changes proposed by Massachusetts health insurance plans to be effective for the second quarter of 2016 (Q2).
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Recent Developments in Massachusetts Health Policy
October 23, 2015 | Alert | By Julie Cox, Sasha Dudding, Stephen Weiner
Building on the momentum of early October hearings on the state’s growing health care expenditures, the Health Policy Commission (HPC), the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, Governor Charlie Baker, and others spent the past two weeks crafting new policies for the industry and its consumers.
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FTC Says New York’s Medicaid Redesign Program May Promote Anticompetitive Behavior
May 4, 2015 | Advisory | By Dionne Lomax, Stephen Weiner
In an April 22, 2015 letter to the New York State Department of Health (DOH), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cautioned that part of the State’s Medicaid reform program may sanction anticompetitive behavior.
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You're Invited to a Webinar: Health Care Antitrust Trends in 2015
April 17, 2015 | Blog | By Samantha Kingsbury
Next Thursday April 23rd at 12pm EST, Mintz Levin attorneys Dionne Lomax and Steve Weiner will be presenting a webinar, moderated by Bruce Sokler, on trends in antitrust enforcement in health care.
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On the Verge of Melt-Down: Core of ACA at Risk and Remedial Options Scant If Supreme Court Rules Against Government in King v. Burwell
January 5, 2015 | Alert | By Andrew Shin, Stephen Weiner
Important dates for the ACA:
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Events & Speaking
Moderator
Oct
7
2018
IBA Annual Conference Rome 2018
International Bar Association
Roma Convention Center La Nuvola, Viale Asia, Rome, Italy
Co-chair
Oct
9
2017
Superbugs: Tackling Resistance to Modern Medicines Through Science and Regulation
International Bar Association
Sydney, Australia
Speaker
Moderator
Moderator
May
2
2016
Panelist
Panelist
Dec
2
2015
Medical Tourism: Legal Issues and Ethical Implications
Boston Bar Association Health Law Education Committee
Boston, MA
Moderator
Oct
8
2015
Having a Family: A Human Right
International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference
Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Apr
23
2015
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