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The Limits of AI in Healthcare: Exploring Ethical and Practical Challenges

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Modern conveniences from washing machines to GPS simplify our lives. In healthcare, however, new technology has not always streamlined delivery. A prime example is the introduction of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) over the...more

Hendershot Cowart P.C.

Do Cosmetic Injections Involve The Practice Of Medicine?

Cosmetic injections, such as Botox and dermal fillers, and weight-loss injections, such as Wegovy® and Ozempic®, are popular offerings at med spas, weight-loss clinics, and dermatology practices. But are they considered the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Unfinished Health Care Business: 10 Issues to Watch as Congress Rings in the New Year

Health care was one of the most active issue areas in 2023 and this trend is expected to continue when Congress returns in the New Year for the second session of the 118th Congress. The activity by the health committees of...more

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Diagnostic Errors Claim Nearly 800,000 American Lives Per Year, Study Finds

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A new study shows that approximately 371,000 people die and 424,000 sustain permanent disabilities due to diagnostic error, including brain damage, blindness, loss of limbs or organs or metastasized cancer....more

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Better Health Care Newsletter - November 2023

We can all agree that health and wellness should be equal opportunity goals for all Americans, and your skin color shouldn’t matter. But it does. The health numbers for Blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans are so...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Leveraging Medicaid to Support Children and Youth Living With Complex Behavioral Health Needs

Editor’s Note: In a new report prepared for The Commonwealth Fund, Manatt Health and its co-authors provide an actionable framework and strategies for how state-level policymakers can use Medicaid and the Children’s Health...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Trending in Telehealth: August 22 – 28, 2023

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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Medicare Revocations and Enrollment Denials: Proposed Rule Adds False Claims Act Judgments and Misdemeanors; Creates New “Stay of...

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Continuing a now annual tradition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has included expansions and enhancements to its authorities to deny enrollment or revoke a provider’s Medicare billing privileges...more

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Failure to Diagnose FAQs

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A failure to diagnose generally occurs when a physician or other healthcare provider does not diagnose a patient’s current medical condition or makes the correct diagnosis but not within a timely manner. It may also happen...more

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Government Scrutiny Expected of Providers That Furnished OTC COVID-19 Tests to Medicare Patients

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In April 2022, CMS announced an initiative to pay for Medicare beneficiaries to receive free OTC COVID-19 test kits. Specifically, Medicare established a demonstration project to pay various eligible healthcare providers to...more

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Artificial Intelligence - The Promise of Early Disease Diagnosis and Improved Treatment and the Potential of Liability

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If there is one thing that everyone can agree on, it is that health is an important factor in life. In 2021, over 3 million people died in the United States with heart disease and cancer topping the list....more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Event] +Dx Forum 2023 - March 3rd, Washington, DC

+Dx Forum 2023 is the premier gathering for the laboratory diagnostics community. Join us for insightful discussion about the latest regulatory and reimbursement developments....more

Holland & Knight LLP

CMS Issues 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year (CY) 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule on Nov. 1, 2022, which impacts Medicare Part B payments starting on Jan. 1, 2023....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

New Hampshire Health System Pays $2.1M in CMP Settlement Over Diagnostic Test Orders

Report on Medicare Compliance 31, no. 35 (September 26, 2022) - For the third time in about 2 1/2 years, hospitals or other providers that are part of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, a large health system in New Hampshire,...more

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Developers Take Note: FDA Issues Clinical Decision Support Software Final Guidance

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On September 27, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its much anticipated final guidance for industry and FDA Staff, Clinical Decision Support Software. This guidance follows the draft Clinical Decision...more

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What to Expect as OIG and CMS Audits Focus on COVID-19 Testing?

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an enormous need for testing and has spawned the creation of new labs and specimen collection agencies to (try to) meet that need. In 2020 alone, Medicare spent $1.5 billion on COVID-19 tests....more

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Free over-the-counter COVID tests (if you can find them)

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The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) was enacted on March 18, 2020, and generally requires group health plans to provide benefits for certain items and services related to COVID-19 testing when those items or...more

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Health Care Professionals Are Key Targets in COVID Aid-Related Fraud Prosecutions

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The U.S. Justice Department’s COVID-related health care fraud crackdown continues to intensify. On a single day in September 2021, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against 138 defendants in 31 federal...more

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Health Care Practice Check-Up: Are You Violating Stark Without Knowing It?

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Anyone involved in the health care industry has heard of the Stark Law (Stark). Most people understand it to prohibit referrals of certain “designated health services” between persons or entities that have a compensation or...more

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[Webinar] 2021 +Dx Diagnostics Forum - April 6th, 12:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST

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Celebrating its sixth program, McDermott+Consulting’s +Dx Diagnostics Forum is the premier annual program for the laboratory diagnostics community. Gain insight into how the industry addresses regulatory and business...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Webinar] Data Analytics, COVID-19, and Telemedicine Coding Compliance - March 25th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CDT

Learning objectives: - Governmental/Payor Data Analytics - Impact of Yates Memo and Data Analytics - COVID-19 Evaluation and Management Coding and Documentation - COVID-19 Testing Coding and Documentation -...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Key Update for Providers: Informed Consent Laws Poised for Sweeping Changes

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Our health care team is closely monitoring proposed legislation that would upend the existing statutes regarding the written, informed consent that providers must obtain from patients. The law currently defines informed...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Bias in Healthcare Algorithms

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The application of artificial intelligence technologies to health care delivery, coding and population management may profoundly alter the manner in which clinicians and others interact with patients, and seek reimbursement....more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FDA Reaches Another Milestone in COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing: First Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Home Test

On December 15, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first over-the-counter (OTC) fully at-home diagnostic test for COVID-19. The Ellume COVID-19 Home...more

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More Than a Game Changer: Fourth Amendment to PREP Act Declaration Establishes Federal Jurisdiction, Bolsters Immunities, and...

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On December 3, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued another groundbreaking amendment to the Declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act). ...more

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