The Important and Thriving Role of Private Medical Practices
Value-Based Care and Its Impact on Providers
In April of 2024, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated their list of Special Focus Facilities. Special Focus Facilities (SFFs) are “nursing homes that have a history of serious quality issues and are...more
A California Court of Appeal has provided additional guidance on how hospital decision making and contracting with medical groups for services influence or affect medical staff operations and fair hearing rights. The court...more
On April 22, 2024 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Medicaid Program; Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services final rule. The rule has a particular focus on home- and community-based services...more
This program is part three of Manatt’s New Federal Rules on Medicaid Access and Managed Care webinar series. After releasing sweeping proposed rules on Medicaid access and managed care in spring 2023, the Centers for...more
Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? SCCE & HCCA’s Regional Compliance & Ethics Conferences bring compliance practitioners from all disciplines together for convenient, local compliance education....more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 prohibits group health plans from agreeing to avoid making certain disclosures of provider-specific cost or quality-of-care information. This is referred to as the gag clause...more
On October 6, 2023, the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) released brand new “General Compliance Program Guidance” to assist health care providers, entities, and other...more
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued an advisory opinion that explored the limits of a relatively new safe harbor to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) that aims...more
The Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) on Nov. 6, 2023, issued new General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG) as a reference guide for the healthcare compliance community....more
The intersection of patient satisfaction and quality of care is central to healthcare today, and a provider’s level of cultural competence can significantly impact his/her performance in both areas. Recent focus on diversity,...more
Advancements in the medical device space are increasingly driven by integrations of software, oftentimes as the fruit of the symbiosis between engineers at software development firms working with clinicians at research...more
Please join us for the July Lunch and Learn where we will discuss compliance issues and trends in Healthcare transaction laws. The presentation will focus on: - An analysis of the recently enacted New York Public Health Law...more
On Thursday, April 27, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released two highly anticipated proposed rules... Together, these would reshape the federal regulatory landscape for Medicaid and the Children’s Health...more
On April 27, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed rules that, if finalized, would reshape Medicaid’s federal regulatory landscape in several ways, including with respect to home and...more
Why are quality and safety of patient care getting worse? Many of us showered the highest of praise on doctors, nurses, therapists and other medical workers for their valor during the pandemic. They deserved it....more
Quality of care allegations against long term care providers are a focus for the Biden administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the HHS-OIG – all of whom are targeting providers whom they deem to be providing...more
On February 13, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) proposed a long-delayed regulation that would implement a provider enrollment provision of the Affordable Care Act that expands the information...more
The Biden Administration has embraced an aggressive and multi-part agenda designed to improve the safety and quality of care nationally in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The Biden Administration’s nursing home agenda...more
In Advisory Opinion 22-17, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) concluded that a proposed restructuring of a loan and other contractual relationships between a health system...more
Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector. This week's topics include . . ....more
Presenters Jonathan Berkowitz of Goldberg Segalla, LLP and Annemari Cooley of Smith & Nephew will explain why current medical standards regarding “unavoidable” skin breakdown and Federal quality of care regulations impose a...more
The nation’s nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are in dire need of drastic overhaul to dramatically improve the quality and safety of their treatment of the aged, sick, and disabled. They too often now get...more
California AG Rob Bonta, together with a coalition of California District and City attorneys, announced a settlement with Brookdale Senior Living, Inc. (“Brookdale”), the nation’s largest senior living operator, over...more
A research study published September 20, 2021 in JAMA Network Open found that mergers and acquisitions of rural hospitals are associated with better mortality outcomes for certain conditions as compared to rural hospitals...more