Wendy Epstein on ‘The Week in Health Law’ Podcast

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Our guest this week is Wendy Netter Epstein, who is an Associate Professor of Law at DePaul University, and Faculty Director of DePaul’s Jaharis Health Law Institute. Her teaching and research interests focus on health care law and policy, contracts, and commercial law. Professor Epstein has won Excellence in Teaching Awards from both DePaul University and the College of Law. We discussed some of her research on contract law and health care, including “The Health Insurer Nudge.”

The lightning round this week included a discussion of institutional liability, and divergent paths for antitrust (the Obama/Trump emphasis on professions and occupational licensure, or the Better Deal focus on mergers). Recalling our conversations with Guian McKee and Jessica Mantel, we also discussed the macroeconomic impact of health care institutions. Obamacare certainly helped Detroit, but Dan Diamond worries that the Cleveland Clinic (and many other hospitals) are not providing levels of community benefit high enough to justify their tax exemption.

The Week in Health Law Podcast from Frank Pasquale and Nicolas Terry is a commuting-length discussion about some of the more thorny issues in Health Law & Policy. Subscribe at Apple Podcasts, listen at Stitcher Radio Tunein, or Podbean, or search for The Week in Health Law in your favorite podcast app. Show notes and more are at TWIHL.com. If you have comments, an idea for a show or a topic to discuss you can find us on Twitter @nicolasterry @FrankPasquale @WeekInHealthLaw

Nicolas P. Terry

Nicolas Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law at Indiana University McKinney School of Law where he serves as the Executive Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health and teaches various healthcare and health policy courses. His recent scholarship has dealt with health privacy, mobile health, the Internet of Things, Big Data, AI, and the opioid overdose epidemic. He serves on IU’s Grand Challenges Scientific Leadership Team, working on the addictions crisis and is the PI on addictions law and policy Grand Challenge grants. His podcast is at TWIHL.com, and he is @nicolasterry on Twitter.

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