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Rural Emergency Hospitals: Relief for the Weary?

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On December 27, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (“CMS”) of the Department of Health and Human Services created a new provider type for embattled rural and critical access hospitals (“CAHs”)—the Rural Emergency...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Critical Access Hospital and Rural Emergency Hospitals: Proposed Rules and Opportunity for Input - August 23rd, 12:30 pm...

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Beginning in 2023, Medicare will recognize a new provider type: the Rural Emergency Hospital (REH). The establishment of REHs is intended to preserve access to emergency departments and other outpatient services in rural...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

CMS Proposes New Stark Law Exception for Rural Emergency Hospitals

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On July 15, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Calendar Year 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Payment System proposed rule...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Strategies for Maximizing Physician Practice Management Investments

Private equity continues to fuel robust activity in the physician practice management (PPM) sector. Within the last five to seven years, not only have PPMs within traditional areas of medicine proliferated, but new...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Event] 2019 Physician Practice Management & ASC Symposium - May 7th-8th, Nashville, TN

Join us for the 2019 Physician Practice Management & ASC Symposium, a two-day, high-level conference addressing the critical business, transactional and regulatory issues that impact the growth and profitability of the PPM...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

CMS Proposes New Stark Exceptions: Timeshare Lease

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In July 2015, CMS released proposals to provide several new Stark Law exceptions and to clarify issues regarding existing exceptions. Over the next few days, I will post comment on what I consider the most significant new...more

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Court Upholds CMS' Prohibition on 'Under-Arrangements' Transactions, Strikes Down CMS' Prohibition on 'Per-Click' Equipment Rental...

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A 2008 rule change from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)—which effectively prohibited referring physician-owned companies from furnishing hospital services “under arrangements”—has withstood a challenge by a...more

Baker Donelson

Recent Changes to Stark Law's Whole Hospital Exception

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The federal physician self-referral law, or Stark Law, provides a number of exceptions to the law's prohibition of physician referrals of designated health services to an entity in which the physician has an ownership or...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CMS Grants First Waiver of Stark Law Expansion Restrictions—Are More Ahead?

Are changes to the landscape of physician hospital ownership ahead? The Affordable Care Act amended the federal Stark Law to eliminate the “whole hospital exception” that permitted self-referrals provided the referring...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

New York Federal Court Takes Different Stance on Medical Staff Bylaws

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On April 14, MedLaw Blog posted a comment about Villare v. Beebe Medical Center, a case in which a Delaware trial court granted summary judgment on the basis that the medical staff bylaws were held not to constitute a...more

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FTC Victory in Idaho Hospital-Physician Acquisition Case Should be a Wake-Up Call for Future and Past Deals

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The ink is still drying on the Idaho federal district court’s order requiring St. Luke’s Health System (“St. Luke’s”) to unwind its acquisition of Saltzer Medical Group (“Saltzer”) – a for-profit, physician-owned,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

December 1 Deadline for New Reporting Requirements for Physician-Owned Hospitals Approaching Fast

Physician-owned hospitals that seek to avail themselves of the “whole hospital” exception or “rural provider” exception to the federal physician self-referral law, commonly known as the Stark Law, should carefully review...more

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Federal District Court Upholds Stark Regulation Ban on Physician-Owned Under Arrangement Service Providers

On May 24 the District Court for the District of Columbia rejected an appeal brought by a group of urologists (“CUI”) seeking to overturn regulations promulgated in 2008 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”)...more

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