OFCCP Rescinds Directive 293 Regarding Jurisdiction Over Health Care Providers and Insurers by Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. on 4/27/2012 The United States Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has rescinded Directive 293, Coverage of Health Care Providers and Insurers, which outlined OFCCP policy for determining whether...more
Legal Alert: OFCCP Jurisdiction Over Health Care Entities by Ford & Harrison LLP on 4/27/2012 Executive Summary: The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has rescinded its December 2010 enforcement directive (No. 293) which provided guidance on when health care providers or insurers may be...more
Drafting & Negotiating Risk Allocation Provisions for Public Owners by Christopher Brown on 4/26/2012 My PowerPoint presentation to CSTCA annual meeting program on public construction issues....more
Staying Well Within the Law -- First Quarter 2012 by Fox Rothschild on 3/29/2012 In This Issue: Sunlight, Transparency and Required Disclosures; Will the Threat of Personal Liability Stifle Corporate Activity?; Hospitals That Participate in TRICARE No Longer Considered Federal Subcontractors Simply...more
OIG Issues Report on Audit MICs by King & Spalding on 3/28/2012 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report on March 20, 2012 on CMS’s Audit Medicaid Integrity Contractors (Audit MICs)—“Early Assessment of Audit Medicaid...more
The False Claims Act: The Impact in 2012 -- Part II in a Continuing Series on Health Care Enforcement by Mintz Levin - Health Law on 3/20/2012 This second part in our ongoing series reviewing health care fraud enforcement activities in 2011,i/ and monitoring enforcement in 2012, expands upon our prior discussion in part one (Part One Report) of the federal False...more
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Completes Merger with Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP by McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP on 3/6/2012 McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP announced today that it has completed its merger with California-based Luce Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP (Luce Forward). The combined firm will continue to be known as McKenna Long & Aldridge...more
MSRB Cautions Underwriters Against Providing Bondholder Consents -- Client Alert February 2012 by McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 2/8/2012 On February 7, 2012, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (“MSRB”) issued for public comment draft interpretive Notice No. 2012- 04 (the “Notice”). The Notice provides an interpretation of...more
MSRB Proposes Limits on Underwriter Consents to Indenture Amendments by Mintz Levin - Public Finance on 2/8/2012 The MSRB has put out for comment a proposed interpretive notice http://www.msrb.org/Rules-and-Interpretations/Regulatory-Notices/2012/2012-04.aspx designed to eliminate or reduce instances in which underwriters of new...more
Health Law Alert: Participants in Medicare Part C and Part D May Now Be Considered Federal Contractors and Subcontractors by Ober|Kaler on 12/7/2011 Recently, health care providers have been targeted by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), which has taken the position that participants in Medicare Part C and D are now federal contractors and may be...more
Flaws continue to undermine Medicare fraud contractor system, says OIG by Warner Norcross & Judd - White Collar on 11/23/2011 A report released this month by the Office of the Inspector General indicates that Medicare’s fraud contractor system continues to struggle. Investigators found that Medicare contractors frequently use flawed, out of date, or...more
Contratos de mediación de seguros y contrato de seguro en el sector público español by Juan Carlos García Melián on 9/27/2011 Este documento contiene líneas generales en relación al contrato de seguro y los contratos de mediación de seguro con el sector público....more
ACOs, Bundled Payments, and the Specialist Physician by The Harlow Group LLC on 9/25/2011 Orthopedic surgeons, like all specialists, need a steady flow of referrals, and adequate reimbursement for services. Health reform is making it harder to succeed. We all need to get smart about ACOs and other shared savings...more
Feds Target Independent Contractor Misclassification by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 9/8/2011 Citing a desire to minimize losses in contributions to unemployment insurance funds, protect workers' rights, and "level the playing field" for employers that abide by the law, the United States Department of Labor's (DOL's)...more
Nigerian Oil and Gas Local Content Act by Oserogho & Associates on 8/29/2011 The Nigerian Government recently consolidated into one legislation known as the Nigerian Oil and Gas Oil Content Development Act, which legislation is more commonly referred to as the local content law, various other...more