Healthcare Professionals, Medicare

CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Reform "Unnecessary, Obsolete, or Excessively Burdensome" Medicare Participation Standards

by Sarah Baker, Dinetia Newman | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 2/20/2013

On February 4, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule to reform Medicare regulations that CMS views as unnecessary, obsolete, and/or excessively burdensome on hospitals and health care...more

Attestation Deadline is February 28, 2013 for Medicare Eligible Professionals Who Participated in the 2012 EHR Incentive Program

by King & Spalding on 2/4/2013

Eligible professionals (EPs) who participated in the 2012 EHR Incentive Program must attest by February 28, 2013, to receive their Medicare incentive payments. ...more

Healthcare Prosecutions for Failures to Return Overpayments

by Michael Volkov on 10/11/2012

Sometimes the deck is stacked against you. No matter what you do and how hard you try, you will lose. In the healthcare area, hospitals, doctors and other service providers have to feel the frustration when it comes...more

Health Care Legal News - September 28, 2012 • Volume 2, Number 8

by Dickinson Wright on 10/1/2012

In This Issue: - THE DW HEALTHCARE TEAM IS GROWING: With the addition of six new healthcare attorneys, the DW Healthcare Team has expanded its expertise and its depth... - RECOVERY OF LOST PROFESSIONAL...more

Medicare Audit Challenges to Paying Nursing and Allied Health Program Pass-Through Costs

by McDermott Will & Emery on 9/21/2012

The Medicare program shares in the costs for approved nursing and allied health education programs operated by hospitals, a matter which has become a recent focus in Medicare audits of hospitals operating such programs....more

Multi-Million Medicare Fraud and HIPAA Conviction: A Cautionary Tale

by Mintz Levin - Health Law on 8/21/2012

The owner of a Long Island medical supply company was convicted last week on charges of a $10.7 million Medicare fraud and wrongful disclosure of private medical information under the Health Insurance Portability and...more

Whistleblower Charges New Mexico Hospital Laboratory Ignored Quality Control Measures

by Mintz Levin - Health Law on 8/17/2012

Originally published in BNA’s Health Care Daily Report, 158 HCDR, 08/16/2012. A federal trial judge Aug. 8 unsealed a qui tam whistleblower’s lawsuit alleging that New Mexico based Deming Hospital Corp. submitted...more

Telemedicine Amidst Healthcare Reform: Practicalities and Pitfalls

by CMCP - California Minority Counsel Program on 7/31/2012

The Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act underscores the need to deliver and make accessible quality healthcare to patients throughout the United States in an efficient and...more

Shorts on Long Term Care - May 2012

by Poyner Spruill LLP on 5/9/2012

In this issue: - A Sign of the Times: Nonpayment of Resident Accounts, Transfer/Discharge and Related Issues - Responding to an Audit? Be Prepared! - Ken’s Quote of the Month An excerpt from...more

Health Law Alert: Five Things Directors of Nonprofit Health Care Providers Can Learn from Lemington Home

by Ober|Kaler on 12/7/2011

Recently, a federal appeals court in In re Lemington Home for the Aged revived claims brought by unsecured creditors against the directors and officers (D&Os) of the insolvent Lemington Home for the Aged when it reversed a...more

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