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Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Williams Mullen: Supreme Court Ruling on EPA Mercury Rule: Utilities Win the Battle, But Lose the War
By Jessica J.O. King The Clean Air Act requires EPA to regulate emissions of hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants if the agency determines that such “regulation is appropriate and necessary” after studying the hazards the...
Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Williams Mullen: FERC Urged To Revise Generator Interconnection Procedures and Agreement
By Robert F. Riley It has been over twelve years since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Procedures (LGIP) and pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Agreement (LGIA) for generators...
Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Williams Mullen: EPA Finalizes Clean Power Plan: Now What?
By: Channing J. Martin President Obama unveiled on August 3 what has been billed as the Administration’s biggest initiative yet to regulate carbon emissions. Although the final regulations that form the Clean Power Plan are ostensibly aimed at...
Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Williams Mullen: Federal Government Continues to Target Big Coal
By: Jessica J.O. King The United States Department of Interior’s (DOI) Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement has proposed new regulations requiring coal mining companies to protect and restore streams impacted by nearby mining...
Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Consumer Protection & Privacy
Consumer Protection and Privacy Law Blog
Williams Mullen: Cybersecurity Standards Apply To Thee, Not Me
By J.P. McGuire Boyd, Jr. & Robert C. Van Arnam “If there is anyone to blame, it is the perpetrators,” said Katherine Archuleta, Director of the federal Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”), to a Senate panel investigating...
Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Consumer Protection & Privacy
Consumer Protection and Privacy Law Blog
Williams Mullen: Cybersecurity -- Mitigating the Legal Risks of On-Line Banking With Business Customers
By Robert D. Perrow and & J.P. McGuire Boyd Jr. On-line or electronic banking (“e-banking”) offers many well-known advantages to financial institutions engaged in banking and to their business customers. A significant risk of on-line...
Williams Mullen
over 8 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Williams Mullen: ‘Ban the Box’ Ascendant: States Increasingly Restricting Applicant Criminal Record Inquiries
By D. Earl Baggett and J. Nelson Wilkinson On January 1, 2014, it became illegal for Rhode Island employers to ask about criminal convictions on job applications. Employers in that state now face civil rights charges, monetary damages, and even liability...
Williams Mullen
over 8 years ago
Health Care
Health Care Law Blog
Williams Mullen: CMS Proposes Rule That Would Expand Its Authority To Audit Medicare Advantage Plans
By Brian C. Vick O n April 30, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule to update payment policies and rates for inpatient hospitals (the “Proposed Rule”) that includes a provision...
Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Health Care
Health Care Law Blog
Williams Mullen: Preparing for a Data Breach – What to Know about Breach Notification
By Kelsey S. Farbotko Data breaches are at the forefront of the news, and many companies, including those dominant in the health care industry, have found themselves front and center in the headlines. Although recent news stories have focused their...
Williams Mullen
over 8 years ago
Health Care
Health Care Law Blog
Williams Mullen: OIG 2014 Compendium Highlights Need For Improved Controls For Pharmacy Claims Submitted To Medicare Part D Plans For Payment
By Brian C. Vick and C. Elizabeth Hall In its March 2014 Compendium of Priority Recommendations (the “Compendium”), the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) identified...
Williams Mullen
over 8 years ago
Health Care
Health Care Law Blog
Williams Mullen: OIG 2014 Work Plan Focuses On Compounded Pharmaceuticals Reimbursed By Medicare
By Brian C. Vick The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) included two items in its recently-released 2014 Work Plan indicating a new focus on the quality and safety of compounded pharmaceuticals...
Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Health Care
Health Care Law Blog
Williams Mullen: Health Care Providers Lacked Standing to Sue as ERISA Beneficiaries: Rojas v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company
By Mark S. Thomas The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed a dismissal of claims by two physicians and their medical practice asserting standing under ERISA to enjoin an insurer from removing them from its coverage network. Rojas...
Williams Mullen
over 8 years ago
Health Care
Health Care Law Blog
Williams Mullen: OIG Scrutiny of Hospital Outpatient Evaluation/Management Claims Billed to Medicare
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...
Williams Mullen
over 9 years ago
Health Care
Health Care Law Blog
Williams Mullen Health Care Fraud and Abuse Alert: What CMS’s New Billing Requirement For ‘Incident To” Services Means For Medicare Providers
By Brian C. Vick In the final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2014 (“2014 PFS”), CMS implemented a new condition of payment for “incident to” services that has significant fraud and abuse implications for any Medicare provider...
Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Health Care
Health Care Law Blog
Williams Mullen: Affirming the Need to Fix the Medicare Appeals Backlog: The AFIRM Act of 2015
By: Kelsey S. Farbotko If you are one of the many health care providers wanting to appeal a Medicare contractor’s reimbursement decision, you may need to be prepared for a long wait. Over the last few years, the backlog of appeals to the administrative...
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