As this fall’s election approaches, headwinds have been brewing in DC and state legislatures for private equity health care dealmaking, many of them with bipartisan support. While a key Senate committee scrutinized patient...more
Paying the $1.3 million fine is the easy part. Complying with the CAP is a different undertaking.
On Sept. 11, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an...more
9/19/2023
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Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Fines ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Violations ,
Hospitals ,
Physicians
Health care policy and business face consequential times ahead, with Election Day Nov. 3 and a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) being heard before the Supreme Court on Nov. 10. In February 2018, two months after...more
Adoption of telehealth and alternative delivery methods is growing and could alter the health care delivery landscape, but it is still in the early stages. While there are risks that telehealth and alternative delivery...more
Despite the U.S. substantially outspending peer high-income nations with almost 18 percent of GDP dedicated to health care, on any number of statistical measurements from life expectancy to birth rates to chronic disease, the...more
Telemedicine has the potential to disrupt the health care delivery system by providing access to care at a lower cost than face-to-face visits. Telemedicine incorporates remote communications into the provision of health care...more
While debate rages on Capitol Hill over “repeal and replace,” only limited attention has been directed toward reforming the current “fee for service” model. Indeed, both the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) and proposals for its...more
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Rating Services recently warned the health care sector was at “a tipping point where negative forces have started to outweigh many providers’ ability to implement sufficient countermeasures.” S&P noted...more
Since the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”) was enacted in 2010, the health care industry has been on the edge of its proverbial seat waiting to see which care delivery models are best suited to sustain all the changes: to...more
8/8/2014
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Affordable Care Act ,
Blue Cross ,
CIGNA ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Highmark ,
Hospital Mergers ,
Hospitals ,
Humana ,
Joint Operating Agreement ,
Joint Venture ,
United Healthcare Insurance Co. ,
WellPoint