On June 8, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new voluntary primary care model, the Making Care Primary (MCP) Model. Highlights include the following:
The MCP Model will run for 10.5...more
New York Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled a proposal, set forth in the Health and Mental Hygiene Article VII Legislation associated with the proposed State Executive Budget for FY2024 (see Article 45-A) (Executive Budget), that...more
More than 900 hospitals across the United States are approaching a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-imposed deadline to report overpayments from the removal (explant) of defective cardiac medical devices if...more
New York’s telehealth emergency waivers have expired, according to a June 25, 2021 announcement issued by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Office declaring the waivers (contained in Executive Orders 202 through 202.11 and 205 through...more
In February 2016, CMS issued the highly anticipated Final Rule on reporting and returning Medicare Part A and B overpayments. The Final Rule was meant to clear up some of the confusion among providers regarding such...more
A New York pharmacy has agreed to pay approximately $500,000 to the State of New York for improperly billing New York Medicaid for prescriptions written by a physician who had been excluded from the Medicaid program. This...more
With headlines every day announcing another release of Protected Health Information (PHI), providers are asking themselves – is there a way to protect against these breaches?
Beyond improving the security of large...more
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Time to Update Your Corporate Bylaws?
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the New York Non-Profit Revitalization Act of 2013 (Act), into law in December 2013, thereby adopting important changes to the governance of...more
On October 24, 2013, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed what we believe is the first post-Phoebe Putney statute (see FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health Sys., Inc., 133 S. Ct. 1003 (2013)), extending the State’s antitrust immunity to...more