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News & Analysis as of May 25, 2013

Personal Injury Damages And Medicaid Leins - SCOTUS Decides

by Deirdre R. Wheatley-Liss | Fein, Such, Kahn & Shepard, P.C. on 3/26/2013

You have a horrific accident and are looking a life of extreme medical care. The accident was caused by another person (drunk truck driver). You get a multi-million dollar award. Does the state that you live in get a share?...more

McNees Insights -- Spring 2012

by McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 4/24/2012

In This Issue: Have You Checked Your Beneficiary Designations Recently?; Tax-Advantage Charitable Giving; and Planning and Paying for Long-term Care (Part 4 in a series: Medicaid/Medical Assistance). Excerpt from...more

U.S. Supreme Court – Day Three of Oral Arguments on the Affordable Care Act

by Patton Boggs LLP on 3/29/2012

Today, morning oral arguments in the Supreme Court focused on the issue of “severability,” that is, if the Court decides that the individual mandate (the subject of Day Two oral arguments) is unconstitutional, can the rest of...more

U.S. Supreme Court – Day Two of Oral Arguments on the Affordable Care Act

by Patton Boggs LLP on 3/28/2012

Today’s Supreme Court oral arguments centered on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) “individual mandate” (also known as the “minimal coverage provision”), the requirement, beginning in 2014, for all...more

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments For Constitutional Challenge of Affordable Care Act – Day One

by Franczek Radelet P.C. on 3/28/2012

Just over two years after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), yesterday the United States Supreme Court heard its first of three consecutive days of oral arguments in Department of...more

U.S. Supreme Court – Day One of Oral Arguments on the Affordable Care Act

by Patton Boggs LLP on 3/26/2012

The U.S. Supreme Court today heard the first of four sets of oral arguments challenging key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Department of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Florida, et...more

New Rules Published for External Claims Appeals Procedures

by Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 9/21/2010

The Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor and Department of Health and Human Services published new rules in the Federal Register on August 26 regarding the new requirements for external claims appeals procedures for...more

The IRS Whistleblower Program: Updated Summary for Lawyers with Potential Tax Whistleblower Claims

by Michael A. Sullivan on 5/8/2008

A detailed description of the country's major "whistleblower" law, the False Claims Act and its "qui tam" provisions, which allow private citizens to report fraud against the government and share in the government's recovery...more