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The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, Issue 3, July 2024

Welcome to our third issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter! We are winding down the summer with our talented group of law students and they have continued to research and write, shadow...more

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CMS Proposes to Extend Virtual Direct Supervision

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On July 10, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to extend virtual direct supervision—i.e., the ability to provide direct supervision through real-time, audio-visual technology (rather than in-person...more

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OIG Approves the Use of Gift Cards to Reward Customers' Marketing Efforts

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On January 3, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted Advisory Opinion 23-15, approving a physician practice consultant’s proposal to offer gift cards to its customers when...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: July 21, 2023

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The House and Senate were both in session this week, with healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on innovation and a markup of 15 healthcare bills. The Senate...more

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Nephrology & Dialysis Conference Panel Key Take Aways - Value Based Care: Operationalizing Your VBC Organization to Ensure Success

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The shift in health care from a retrospective fee for service (“FFS”) model to a value based care (“VBC”) model is growing across our nation’s health system and different specialties, including nephrology. VBC models in...more

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Top Trends in Tech-Enabled Home Care

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The traditional world of Medicare-certified home health and hospice is changing rapidly. To the surprise of many, though the pandemic has been an accelerant, the reasons are more fundamental, and at the core are forces...more

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Stark and AKS Final Rules Will Facilitate Donations of EHR and Cybersecurity Technology and Services

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On November 20, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Office of Inspector General released final rules amending the regulations to the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute and Beneficiary Inducement...more

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Ten Things to Know About the CMS Long-Term Care Requirements Final Rule

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Deadlines are looming to come into compliance with sweeping changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for long-term care facilities (LTC) participating in Medicare and Medicaid. The CMS final...more

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Telemedicine Gains Further Acceptance

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Last month the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted ethical guidance related to the practice of telemedicine and telehealth which further expands upon the policy report on Coverage and Payment for Telemedicine [PDF] it...more

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Telemedicine: Hitting a Few Speed Bumps

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Despite faster Internet connections, better software, increased availability of devices with built-in video, and an increasingly tech-savvy public, the broad acceptance of telemedicine—the use of telecommunication and...more

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CMS Requests Input on Health Plan Innovation Initiatives

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Medicare Advantage (“MA”) plans, prescription drug plans (“PDPs”), and other stakeholders have until November 3, 2014, to provide input into the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (“CMS’s”) consideration of potential...more

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Telemedicine: Many Opportunities, Many Legal Issues, Many Risks

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Telemedicine touches on multiple practice areas for health care lawyers, such as payment and reimbursement, fraud and abuse, credentialing and privileging, peer review, privacy, consent, licensing, and regulatory compliance....more

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Health Information Technology Policy Committee Approves MU Stage 3 Recommendations

On March 11, the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) voted to approve the meaningful use workgroup’s Stage 3 recommendations. The federal advisory committee’s recommendations will be presented to the Centers for Medicare &...more

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Health Insurance Marketplace Implementation Continues

The flow of traffic on HeathCare.gov on Tuesday, October 1, described by a representative from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as “historic,” reportedly reached up to 2.8 million users, as individuals...more

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Will Federal Protection for EHR Donations Be Extended Beyond December 31, 2013?

Rumors are circulating that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) will continue to allow the donation of electronic health...more

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CMS Seeks Comments on Hospital Readiness for EHR Hospital Inpatient Quality Data Reporting

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CMS is seeking comments from hospitals, electronic health record (EHR) vendors, and other interested parties regarding whether hospitals could be ready as early as January 1, 2014, to electronically report patient-level...more

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Health Care Reform Implementation Update - December 12, 2012

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As the year’s end approaches, the Hill is a flurry of activity with representatives from various health groups trying to ensure that whatever solution Congress finds to the fiscal cliff problems does not negatively affect...more

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