The CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rules
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Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 196: Regulation Trends in Healthcare and Certificate of Need with Rebecca Thornhill of Maynard Nexsen
Hospice Insights Podcast - A Refresh: What’s New in the New OIG General Compliance Program Guidance
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Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 192: Business Issues for Healthcare with Ira Bedenbaugh and Randi Branham of Elliott Davis
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 191: South Carolina Lowcountry Healthcare with Walter Bennet, MUSC Orangeburg CEO
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 188: Healthcare Valuation with Darcy Devine, Founder of Buckhead FMV
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Findings from Gibbins’ Annual Healthcare Bankruptcy Report
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Healthcare Practice Lease Negotiations: Avoid Missing Out on Potential Opportunities
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For many weeks, we’ve been hearing about the IRS’s plans to use the funding provided under the Inflation Reduction Act[i] to increase and expand its compliance and enforcement efforts with respect to the wealthy, high-income...more
On July 1, 2021, the Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”), the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), the Department of Treasury (“Treasury”), the Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”), the Department of Labor...more
Several months ago Senate Finance Committee members Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Chair Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, stirred the hornets’ nest again for nonprofit hospitals by asking the IRS for answers regarding its oversight of...more
On February 15, 2018, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch and senior committee member Senator Charles Grassley sent a letter to David Kautter, acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), requesting...more
On August 4, 2017, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released its first revocation of a hospital’s tax exemption under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3) for failure to comply with Section 501(r) of the Affordable...more
The Affordable Care Act imposed new requirements on tax-exempt hospitals under Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 501(r) and its implementing regulations present a complex framework intended to promote...more
For tax-exempt hospitals, the Section 501(r) Internal Revenue Code (IRC) requirements of the Affordable Care Act are “old news” by now. However, despite the recent focus on repeal of the ACA, it is worth noting that this...more
In April, the IRS released a private letter ruling denying section 501(c)(3) status to an accountable care organization (“ACO”) that contracted with third-party payers outside of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (“MSSP”)....more
Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code was added by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and imposes significant new requirements on charitable hospitals. At a very summary level, this section requires charitable hospitals...more
In Notice 2014-69, the Treasury Department and the IRS clarified that a group health plan that fails to provide substantial coverage for in-patient hospitalization and physician services will not be treated as providing...more
Tuesday the IRS issued proposed regulations that require an employer-sponsored health plan to include substantial coverage of inpatient hospital and physician services in order for the plan be considered as providing minimum...more
This Week: CMS Releases Guidance on Fast Track Process for 1115 Waivers for Medicaid and CHIP... Healthcare.gov CEO Sends Letter to State Insurance Commissioners Concerning 2016 Premium Decisions... Medicare Board of Trustees...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has clarified the requirements for charitable hospital organizations required to adopt a financial assistance policy. For large hospitals or hospitals using the services of multiple private...more
On June 26, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued guidance to clarify how charitable hospitals may comply with regulations issued by the Department of Treasury under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...more
On June 26, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2015-46, which clarifies the requirement in the Treasury Regulations under Section 501(r)(4) that a hospital's financial assistance policy (FAP) must...more
The IRS published its long awaited final rule December 31, 2014 to implement certain requirements of the Affordable Care Act (the ACA). The ACA added a new provision in Section 501(r) of the Tax Code, which creates additional...more
Roughly 60 percent of hospitals nationwide either have received or are seeking tax-exempt status under the United States Treasury Department (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rules and regulations. With new final...more
On March 10, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Revenue Procedure 2015-21, which provides guidance regarding correction and disclosure procedures applicable to certain failures by charitable hospitals to meet the...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued the final section 501(r) regulations, implementing the amendments to the Internal Revenue Code under the Affordable Care Act and providing regulatory guidance for tax-exempt...more
This week, the IRS issued new guidance for charitable hospitals that are required to disclose the failure to meet the requirements imposed by the Affordable Care Act. This new guidance is meant to lessen the burden on such...more
The IRS has issued final regulations providing guidance on certain complex requirements imposed on charitable hospital organizations added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Specifically, the...more
In This Issue: - IRS in the ACA Spotlight - DOJ and FTC Examine Competition - Implementation of the Affordable Care Act - Other Federal Regulatory Initiatives - Congressional Initiatives - Other...more
The Internal Revenue Service replaced proposed regulations under Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) with final regulations in late 2014 (the “Final Regulations”). As enacted in the Patient Protection and...more
Among the many new requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“Affordable Care Act” or “ACA”) are amendments to the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) that formalize and impose some uniformity in the...more
The IRS has released guidance in three areas of interest to entities that benefit from tax-exempt bond financings, particularly hospitals and educational institutions. This guidance creates new rules related to management...more