Artificial intelligence promises to transform the way we live and work and its impact will undoubtedly stretch to every business sector across the globe. This next generation of technology brings exciting possibilities and...more
On March 23, 2023, the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation that would expand Medicaid for an estimated 600,000 North Carolinians who currently lack health care coverage but do not actively qualify for Medicaid....more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. A. AL2022-012, St. Vincent’s East, Birmingham, AL: Proposes to build out of existing shelled space on the seventh (7th) floor of the north tower within its existing hospital for the...more
A conversation with Joy Heath & Joel Johnson - As the Certificate of Need (CON) year winds down, we look ahead to 2022 and pause to look back at some of the highlights across a robust year of 2021 CON activity....more
The process of creating traditional pathology slides for review is quite cumbersome, and the manual workflow requires many steps. A new and more efficient process using digital pathology (and artificial intelligence...more
...The Personalized Medicine Coalition (“PMC”) recently published its 2020 Spring Newsletter that examines the landscape and outlook for personalized medicine as COVID-19 prompts new discussions about the effect of COVID-19...more
The impact of artificial intelligence, or more specifically machine learning, is being felt in every industry sector, but perhaps nowhere more so than in healthcare, where AI funding hit historic highs in 2018, according to...more
Following nearly two years of negotiations and hearings examining the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments (GDUFA) and the Biosimilar User Fee Act (BsUFA), the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) and the Medical Device User...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently held that a successor employer, who was assigned non-competition agreements as part of an asset purchase, could seek to enforce the non-competition agreements...more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued Advisory Opinion 15-15 and concluded that an arrangement under which a hospital proposed to provide transcription services to a radiology practice in exchange for fair...more
I. September 2015 – Mississippi Certificate of Need Meeting - During the September 24, 2015, Certificate of Need meeting, Dr. Mary Currier, State Health Officer, concurred with the health and planning staff analysis...more
Butterfly Network, Inc. announced on November 3rd that it has raised over $100 million to commercialize a medical device designed to reduce the cost of real-time, three-dimensional imaging and treatment. Butterfly states that...more
In the proposed 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, CMS is seeking comments regarding expanding coverage for secondary interpretation of diagnostic imaging....more
Trends & Analysis: ..We have identified 58 health care–related qui tam cases that have been unsealed since our last Qui Tam Update. Of those, 33 cases were initiated after the start of 2012, with the remaining 25 cases...more
On March 25, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota held that a magnetic resonance imaging ("MRI") provider, a lay entity (i.e., not owned or controlled by physicians), did not violate the state's...more
For the past several years, the health care community has been not only at the center of vigorous policy debates about the method of health care delivery in this country, but also in the crosshairs of agencies charged with...more
Avoiding sending American taxpayers over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” Congress enacted the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the “Act”) [PDF] that was signed into law on January 2, 2013. Of biggest note, the Act included...more
Beginning January 1, 2013, physicians in the same practice group who provide certain diagnostic imaging services may be required to bill at reduced rates, due to a broadened application of the Multiple Procedure Payment...more