Health Care Law [2003]

Despite much turmoil in the health care industry, the past Survey year was a relatively quiet one for health law developments in Texas, even for a non-legislative year. To some extent, the year has been at least as notable for the cases that were not decided as for the ones that were. One important case - Ramirez v. Mclntyre - was decided by the Austin Court of Appeals during the early part of the current Survey year and was significant enough to be included in last year's Texas Survey. The case had been at the Supreme Court of Texas for fourteen months before it was argued, however, and a decision is probably still months away. A similar fate appears to have befallen a case argued to the supreme court on the April 3, 2002: HCA, Inc. v. Miller ex rel. Miller. The year has offered up some important cases, though, and even a little drama