Compliance is a “team effort.” Everyone in the organization has an important role to play. It’s critical, however, that each member of the team understand their specific role and how it relates to compliance. Compliance...more
The job search process was frustrating for my firstborn, Mateo. He had his coder certificate and ten years’ experience as a security and IT specialist but when he applied for certain roles, even at his current employer, he...more
Picture this: you’re sitting across the table from a promising candidate during a job interview. Their resume is impressive, their answers seem well-rehearsed, and their enthusiasm is contagious. But deep down, you can’t help...more
There are many rules and regulations governing attending physician visits and medical directors. Unfortunately, there is plenty of room for error when documenting attending physician visits, establishing medical director...more
On June 28, 2023, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Public Act No. 23-97, “An Act Concerning Health and Wellness for Connecticut Residents.” The Act includes a wide range of provisions aimed at supporting health care...more
The California Legislature is considering a bill to simplify the process by which health insurers and plans credential providers. Currently, providers must satisfy the proprietary “credentialing” requirements of individual...more
Structure of AMCs - While every AMC is unique, there are some common characteristics that many share: (1) the hospital and school are often tethered together from an organizational, governance and/or legal perspective;...more
In November 2022, when The Joint Commission (“TJC”) announced its decision to update its accreditation standards to permit practitioner recredentialing every three years instead of two, many California hospitals and their...more
In a recent Private Industry Notification to the higher education sector, the FBI warned that U.S. college and university credentials are being advertised “for sale on online criminal marketplaces and publically [sic]...more
New York AG Letitia James warned that more than 1.1 million online accounts were compromised in cyberattacks known as “credential stuffing attacks” at 17 well-known companies and released a guide with recommendations for how...more
Credential stuffing has quickly become one of the top attack vectors online, according to the Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James (OAG). On January 6, 2022, the OAG announced the result of a sweeping...more
After reading New York Attorney General Letitia James’ Business Guide for Credential Stuffing Attacks (“Guide”), I promptly reminded my family (and myself!) to change passwords. The practice of using the same password for...more
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that the records of any hospital committee which performs a peer-review function are entirely exempt from discovery in Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia Consultants, Ltd., Pa., 2021...more
Idaho has joined several other states in revamping requirements for physician assistants (aka physician associates) effective July 1, 2021. The new law removes the requirement for individually identified supervising...more
On April 8, 2021, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina announced a $22.5 million settlement with a network of urgent care providers, Doctors Care, P.A. (Doctors Care), and its management company, UCI...more
Yesterday, the USPTO issued an alert regarding emails that U.S. attorneys have been receiving from unlicensed persons offering to pay attorneys in exchange for use of the attorneys’ bar credentials in trademark filings. The...more
Last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced it would address whether the Pennsylvania Peer Review Protection Act (PRPA or Act) protects documents in hospital credentialing files. This decision could significantly...more
With the growth in telemedicine, Critical Access Hospitals have a renewed interest in exploring delegated credentialing. Several years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) modified the conditions of...more
Many hospitals and health care systems are turning to out-of-state practitioners to quickly ramp up staffing to the levels necessary to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic....more
As the coronavirus pandemic has reached the phase where non-pharmaceutical interventions are being implemented daily (social distancing, school and work closures, travel restrictions, etc.), hospitals and medical...more
In a highly unfavorable peer review decision, Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia v. Petraglia, entered on February 12, 2020, a Pennsylvania state appellate court upheld an order compelling a hospital to produce the unredacted...more
Part 2: California Laws Impacting Schools and School Districts for 2020 - Last year brought many changes to the legal landscape affecting educators. In this Best Best & Krieger LLP Legal Alert series, we look at some of...more
With the start of a new decade, our team wants to share an overview of the past year and a look ahead to the coming months. Please find here a review of relevant legislation that the General Assembly passed in 2019, a summary...more
The SEC has proposed amendments to the definition of “accredited investor” to add new categories of qualifying natural persons and entities and to make certain other modifications to the existing definition....more