In connection with the November 2023 Health Care Compliance Association’s (HCCA) Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference, and with acknowledgment by the Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, Rob DeConti, of the long...more
11/8/2023
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Workplace violence has become one of the key management challenges and sources of enterprise risk for hospitals over the past several years. Threats from patients, visitors, and staff have increased, sometimes with tragic...more
On July 5, 2022, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts re-extended the implementation and enforcement date for the “Patients First Act”, sometimes referred to as the Massachusetts No Surprises Act, to January 1, 2025. As...more
On January 17, 2013, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the long-awaited omnibus final rule (the Rule) implementing changes in current regulations under the Health...more
1/24/2013
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