On July 1, 2021, a new Georgia anti-kickback statute (AKS), Senate Bill 4 (SB4), became effective. SB4 prohibits providers of substance abuse treatment from engaging in patient brokering, and specifically makes it unlawful...more
On April 26, 2021, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released Advisory Opinion No. 21-02 (Opinion 21-02), a favorable opinion regarding an ambulatory surgery center...more
On April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). The proposed rule includes CMS...more
On Thursday, April 2, 2020, Gov. Brian Kemp added Georgia to the list of statewide shelter-in-place orders aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19. Current reports estimate that as of April 6, 2020, Georgia has seen 6,742...more
On March 23, as part of his continuing effort to combat the COVID-19 emergency, Georgia’s Gov. Brian Kemp issued a “shelter in place order” for certain vulnerable Georgians. This order took effect on March 24 at noon and...more