By Mary B. Langowski and Kristen E. Ratcliff A little more than five years after the passage of the Health Information Technology Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the Food and Drug Administration, Federal Communications Commission and the Office... Read More
By Gordon H. Copland | A recent decision suggesting that the Virginia Certificate of Need (“CON”) law may be unconstitutional has widespread implications for CON laws around the country, including West Virginia and Kentucky. The surprising... Read More
By David Gruber, MD, MBA* Healthcare spending is forecast to increase from US$3 trillion in 2014 to US$5.2 trillion in 2023, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 5.9 percent. US healthcare expenditures on a per capita basis are 1.9-2.6 times... Read More
By Frederick Robinson , Megan Fanale Engel , Cori Annapolen Goldberg and Selina Coleman On January 31, 2014, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its Work Plan for fiscal year 2014. The OIG announced... Read More
By Benjamin Koplin , Selina Coleman and R. Jeffrey Layne Despite extending the dispute-and-resolution deadline to account for the days that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pulled down the reporting system, the public Physician... Read More
By Gayland Hethcoat With the release of its work plan for fiscal year 2014 on Jan. 31, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has provided insight on the agency’s current enforcement... Read More
By Serj Mooradian On July 20, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed HB 3680 , the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Act, making Illinois the eleventh state to sign on to the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (the Compact). Illinois follows... Read More
By Mark Faccenda On August 29, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“ CMS ”) announced that certain providers with pending appeals of specified inpatient-status claims denied by Medicare contractors may elect to receive... Read More
By Nita Garg On April 1, President Obama signed the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. This legislation extends current Medicare physician reimbursement rates and delays implementation of the ICD-10 code for a full year. Previously, hospitals... Read More
SGR/Legislative Action – On March 11, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Wyden (D-OR) introduced his version of legislation to permanently repeal and replace the sustainable growth rate (SGR), the Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access... Read More
By: Karen Nelson Much has been written about the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and its repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate formula for physician compensation and the potential gainsharing safe harbor. But the Act also... Read More
By David Y. Bannard Not-for-profit health care providers that have borrowed on a tax-exempt basis within the last five years should be aware of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation (“MCDC”... Read More
By: Frank E. Sheeder , Karen Nelson and Keri L. Tonn Health industry clients face regulatory and enforcement challenges on multiple fronts. It can be difficult to prioritize and allocate resources properly when government agencies’ initiatives... Read More
By David Gruber, MD, MBA* | Healthcare spending is forecast to increase from US$3 trillion in 2014 to US$5.2 trillion in 2023, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 5.9 percent. US healthcare expenditures on a per capita basis are 1.9-2.6 times... Read More
By Marcus C. Hewitt H.H.S’s Office of Inspector General’s yearly work plan was issued on January 31, 2014, which included numerous new and ongoing reviews and activities by OIG for the coming year. Among the new projects, OIG will review... Read More