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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - August 2024 #1

News Briefs - CMS Increases Acute Care Inpatient Hospital Payments by $2.9B - HHS has finalized the fiscal year 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System rule. The rule...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Overlapping surgeries: Time for a compliance checkup?

Overlapping surgeries is a practice that has been used for many years by healthcare providers (such as hospitals and surgical centers). This practice generally refers to situations where one lead attending surgeon is...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Navigating the National Practitioner Data Bank: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals (NPDB or Data Bank).

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Few aspects of the healthcare regulatory apparatus evoke more confusion and dread for healthcare practitioners than the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB or Data Bank).  Being reported to the Data Bank is often regarded...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Regulations, contracts, and credentialing for medical directors and attending physicians

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Meeting Cancer Reporting Requirements

Cancer is not just a diagnosis between a patient and physician. In this podcast Jeremy Laws, Operations Supervisor at the Ohio Cancer Incidence Surveillance System, explains that a cancer diagnosis triggers state-by-state...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] In the Shadow of Drug Pricing Reform: New Developments for Pharmaceutical Price Reporting - March 23rd, 1:00 pm - 2:00...

With the enactment of major drug pricing reform—including the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which arguably made the most significant changes to U.S. prescription drug pricing regulations in history—the reporting of drug...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

New California Law Requires Physicians to Provide Patients with Notice of the Federal Open Payments Program

A new California law – Assembly Bill 1278, which was signed by the Governor on September 29, 2022 – requires physicians to provide patients with notice of the federal Open Payments database. The federal Open Payments program...more

K&L Gates LLP

Health Care Triage: Hospitals, Physician Practices, and Labs – Are You Ready to Report Private Payor Rates for Laboratory Tests?

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In this episode, Gabriel Scott and Darlene Davis analyze the private payor rates reporting requirements under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act. They discuss the type of entities required to report, potential penalties...more

Williams Mullen

Physician Group Monitoring of “Open Payments”

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Is your physician group monitoring the Open Payments database? Each June, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases data showcasing the payments made by reporting entities to physician groups and other...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

HHS Requesting Physician COVID Relief Payback of $100 Million

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HHS sent notices to noncompliant physicians and facilities on March 10, 2022 giving them 30 days to return funds paid to healthcare providers who have not complied with the agency’s reporting requirements....more

Goodwin

An Emerging State Trend: Increasing Oversight of Physician Group Practice Transactions

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On October 1, 2021, Nevada became the latest of a small but growing number of states extending regulatory oversight of healthcare transactions involving physician practices. Over the past decade, several states have passed or...more

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Prescription Practices Called into Question: Iowa Court Applies Four-Factor Test to Physician’s Defamation Claim Based on Report...

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The Supreme Court of Iowa recently reversed the judgment of a district court and remanded the matter with instructions to enter summary judgment in favor of Hamilton County Public Hospital, operating as Van Diest Medical...more

Fisher Phillips

The 7 Main Takeaways for Healthcare Employers Now That OSHA Has Finally Unveiled Its Long-Awaited COVID-19 Emergency Temporary...

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Almost six months after President Joe Biden directed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to determine whether emergency temporary standards (ETS) concerning COVID-19 were necessary, OSHA finally issued the...more

K&L Gates LLP

Health Care Triage: Understanding OIG and CMS Audits

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Richard Church interviews Stephen Bittinger about the scope and authority of OIG and CMS audits, outlining the similarities and differences between the two from a provider perspective. The presenters discuss the key...more

Jones Day

Human Trafficking and Health Care Providers: Legal Requirements for Reporting and Education

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The majority of trafficked persons in the United States access health care at some point during their exploitation. Health care providers who treat victims of human trafficking are subject to a patchwork of sometimes...more

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JONES DAY TALKS®: Helping Health Care Providers Fight Human Trafficking

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Health care providers hold a unique position in the fight against human trafficking. To help them understand their reporting and education obligations related to anti-human trafficking activities, Jones Day has prepared...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

New Year Brings Significant Changes to Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule for Calendar Year 2021 (the Final Rule) issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on December 1, 2020, and published in the Federal Register on December 28,...more

Jackson Walker

CMS Implements Stricter COVID-19 Testing Regulations on Nursing Homes

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As part of a broader Trump administration announcement made on August 25, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued sweeping oversight changes in the form of an Interim Final Rule with Comment Period...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Penalties for COVID-19 Reporting Failures and Other New CMS Rules on Mandatory Testing and Ordering Limits

Anyone conducting COVID-19 testing – whether using point of care or high complexity tests – should take note. On August 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an Interim Final Rule with comment period...more

McAfee & Taft

New CMS regulations bolster enforcement of COVID-19 reporting by hospitals, long-term care facilities and labs

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On August 25, 2020 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued interim final regulations known as CMS-3401-IFC that become effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register, scheduled for September...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Significant Change to ClinicalTrials.gov Reporting Requirements: Ten Years' Worth of Back Data Owed

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has warned clinical trial sponsors – including not only drug and device companies, but also universities and hospitals with investigator-initiated trials – to submit significant...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CMS Proposes New Hospital Reporting Requirements and Signals Major Shift in Hospital Rate-Setting Methods

- Tucked into a massive Medicare payment rule is a proposal to fundamentally change how CMS sets hospital payment rates. - Recognizing that a hospital’s chargemaster rarely reflects true market costs, CMS seeks to use...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

The CARES Act From a Health CARE Perspective

On March 27, President Trump signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the CARES Act or the Act). This $2.2 trillion package is designed to provide relief to those impacted by the COVID-19...more

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New Year, New Reporting Requirements: California Entities Must Report Certain Patient Complaints of Sexual Abuse and Misconduct by...

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Spurred by physician sexual misconduct and abuse at high-profile institutions, California now requires clinics, health facilities, and “other entities” to report certain written allegations of a health care professional’s...more

Baker Donelson

Medicare Spreads Sunshine Act Coverage to New Categories of Payments, Recipients

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On November 15, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") finalized changes to the Open Payments Program as part of the CY 2020 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule....more

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