Happy 2024! The entire Saul Ewing Health Law Practice Group wishes you and yours a healthy and prosperous new year and successful (and compliant) activities in the health care delivery system this year and beyond....more
2/2/2024
/ Ambulatory Surgery Centers ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Controlled Substances Act ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
HIPAA Violations ,
Hospitals ,
Information Technology ,
Marijuana ,
Medicare ,
Nursing Homes ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Popular ,
Price Transparency ,
Private Equity ,
Telehealth
See below the Saul Ewing LLP Health Law Practice Group 2023 predictions from various members of our practice group! Our colleagues help interested parties in the health care delivery system with transactional, regulatory,...more
2/23/2023
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Data Privacy ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospital Mergers ,
Hospitals ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
Surprise Medical Bills
COVID-19 – and its variants Delta and Omicron – continue to wreak havoc around the world. Thousands of individuals have died and continue to die, and millions more have been diagnosed as having COVID-19. Many sectors of the...more
2/3/2022
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Home Health Care ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Nurses ,
Physicians ,
Popular ,
Telehealth ,
Vaccinations
On November 8, 2021, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an updated Self-Disclosure Protocol (SDP) (here). The revision of the SDP is an important...more
On July 1, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with several other federal agencies, issued an interim final rule to implement the first of several requirements in the No Surprises Act, which...more
One year ago – in early 2020 – most of us did not know what COVID-19 meant (co-Corona; vi-Virus; d-disease; 19 – 2019); had no idea how to “zoom”; did not know what social distance meant; and, were largely unfamiliar with...more
2/18/2021
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Medical Records ,
Medicare ,
Physicians ,
Stark Law ,
Tax Reform ,
Telehealth ,
Vaccinations
On October 20, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced the resolution of two (2) sets of religious discrimination complaints to ensure clergy had...more
On September 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that, if finalized, would establish a Medicare coverage pathway to provide Medicare beneficiaries with...more
On March 28, 2020, in connection with the recently enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it is expanding its accelerated and advance...more
4/8/2020
/ Accelerated Payments ,
CARES Act ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Medicare ,
Nursing Homes ,
Physicians ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Relief Measures
On March 17, 2020, the Trump administration announced expanded Medicare telehealth coverage allowing Medicare beneficiaries greater access to health care services in the safety of their homes as a “temporary resource.”...more
On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), each issued a proposed rule to amend respectively the...more
As the health care delivery system continues to evolve, on May 3, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a draft guidance document to state survey agency directors entitled, “Guidance for Hospital...more
INTRODUCTION -
The Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP health care practice group includes attorneys that handle regulatory, compliance, transactional and litigation needs for clients across the entire health care delivery...more
2/1/2019
/ Cannabidiol (CBD) oil ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Medical Malpractice ,
Medical Marijuana ,
National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) ,
OCR ,
Popular
There continues to be significant media attention on health care privacy and data breaches, the opioid crisis, Medicaid funding and expansion efforts, telemedicine, and mergers and acquisitions affecting the health care...more
On November 10, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) posted its work plan (the “Work Plan”) for fiscal year 2017. The OIG publishes its Work Plan on an annual basis. The...more
There appears to be momentum on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC to modify and/or repeal the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act of 1989, more commonly known as the Stark Law, which was enacted to curb overutilization of certain...more
In the February 12, 2016 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule (Final Rule) with respect to reporting and returning overpayments by Medicare Part A and Part B providers to...more
In the February 12, 2016 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule (Final Rule) with respect to reporting and returning overpayments by Medicare Part A and Part B providers to...more
On Thursday, October 29, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) jointly issued a rule (the “Final Rule”) to finalize five (5) waivers of certain fraud and abuse...more
11/5/2015
/ ACOs ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Federal Register ,
Final Rules ,
Gainsharing ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Interim Rule ,
Kickbacks ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Shared Savings Program ,
OIG ,
Self-Referral ,
Shared Savings Program ,
Stark Law
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") announced the introduction of the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization ("ACO") Model of payment and care delivery. ACOs...more
In a final rule published in the Federal Register on November 13, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) eliminated the federal Sunshine Act reporting exclusion for payments to physicians at continuing...more
On October 17, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) published in the Federal Register (79 FR 62356 et seq) a notice...more
On August 15, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) re-opened the Open Payments system for physicians and teaching hospitals to register, review, and, if needed, dispute information gathered to date. CMS...more
On August 7, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the Open Payments system is “temporarily” off-line. The CMS announcement did not state when the Open Payments system would be back on-line....more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule that includes a plan to eliminate the continuing medical education (“CME”) exclusion to the reporting requirements under the federal Physician...more