PPACA Regulatory Updates
As the effective date (January 1, 2014) of significant provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts (“PPACA”) nears, federal regulatory agencies have been hard at work issuing...
View ArticleNew Guidelines on Preventative Care Benefits
The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury recently issued guidance in the form of frequently asked questions (“FAQs”) that clarify and expand the rules regarding preventive care...
View ArticleOIG Exclusion Update: The Who, What, When, Where, and Why
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently released an updated Special Advisory Bulletin1 covering the scope and effect of exclusion from Federal...
View ArticleOCR Launches Nationwide Compliance Review of CAH Language Access Programs
On April 30th, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it will begin compliance reviews to support language access programs in critical access hospitals (CAHs) as part of federal efforts to...
View ArticleIt’s Complicated: Requests for Patient Information/Access for Research
With increasing frequency, practitioners and health professional students request patient information and/or access to patients or patients’ medical records for purposes of research. The requests are...
View ArticleProposed Amendment to False Claims Act: Relief for Innocent Mistakes?
Health care providers and suppliers are well aware that they are living in a world of increased enforcement and that the Federal government has a growing arsenal of tools it uses to enforce the Federal...
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