Areas of Career Specialization: Health Law
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
In our column of July 30, 1998, we explored the many aspects of health law, which is really a variety of legal spec.
Latex Balloons Banned From Hospitals
Law Office of Jon L. Gelman
No Latex Balloons, Please! That is the new sign being posted through out hospitals in the United States and Canada..
Public-Private Partnerships in Canada in 2005
Constance L Sugiyama and Paul H Harricks of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
This article surveys the evolving Canadian experience with public-private partnerships (P3s) and the opportunities that are developing across the country in health care, energy and infrastructure.
Buchanan Ingersoll Provides Sunscreen: Defending Private, Non-profit Hospital from Sunshine Laws
Samuel W. Braver of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
With help from the Florida Legislature, Buchanan Ingersoll litigators successfully defended Tarpon Springs Hospital.
OIG Issues Guidelines for Hospital Compliance Programs
Dykema Gossett PLLC
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released long-awaited compliance program guidelines for hospitals. R.
Medicare's New Fraud and Abuse Safe Harbors
Robert B. Ramsey of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
A significant issue confronting all healthcare providers is the potential application of the Fraud and Abuse law t.
Client Alert: APRIL 2000
Kenneth J. Yood of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
This article reviews the new regulations issued by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) setting forth the requirements to obtain and maintain provider-based status under the Medicare Program.
Connecticut's Largest Law Firm Using Preventive Medicine to Block Exposure to Health Care Fraud
Day Pitney LLP
Connecticut's largest law firm is tapping expertise from each of its offices to create a special task force to addr.
Hospitals' Duty to Report Patient Harm
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Recent reports of horrible incidents at well-known hospitals in New York City have shaken the public's faith in hea.
CMS Loosens Restrictions on Medicare Billing Reassignment of Physician Fees
Susan L. Fine of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Medicare now permits an entity to submit Medicare bills and receive payment for services furnished by a physician with whom it has a contract, regardless of where the services are furnished or whether an employer-employee relationship exists. This new rule greatly enhances flexibility for hospital-physician contracting.
Proposed VA Rules Broaden Authority To Purchase Health Care Services, Ease Procurement Requirements
DLA Piper LLP
This Health Care Contracting Bulletin discusses a proposed rule under the Veterans? Health Care Eligibility Reform Act implementing the simplified acquisition provisions of the Act.
Your Rights Under the Community Service Assurance of the Hill-Burton Act
Dept. of Health and Human Services
Fact sheet from the Department of Health and Human Services which describes individuals' rights and responsibilities under the Community Service Assurance provisions of the Hill-Burton Act, which are formally known as Titles VI and XVI of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act.
Is Your Hospital Compliance Program in Compliance? OIG's Draft Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals
Health Services Practice Group of Nixon Peabody LLP
On June 8, 2004, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General published the "OIG Draft Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals." As the name suggests, this guidance document is intended to supplement the OIG's 1998 Compliance Program Guidance to: (a) address recent changes in hospital payment systems, regulations, and industry practices; (b) focus on particular risk areas; and (c) provide guidance for evaluating existing hospital compliance programs.
OIG Issues Hospital Compliance Guidelines
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP
The OIG released its official hospital compliance guidelines on February 11, 1998. The model compliance guidelines,.
In the Wake of the Tenet Investigation, CMS Issues Program Memorandum on DRG Outliers
Robert G. Homchick of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Last month, federal regulators launched a review of Medicare "outlier" payments to Tenet hospitals. An outlier is an inpatient case that is so expensive it exceeds the anticipated cost thresholds established by the Medicare Program. As a consequence, instead of paying the hospital on the diagnostic related group (DRG), the Medicare Program pays the hospital at a higher or outlier rate.
Hospitals: Have You Checked Your Potential Outlier Payments Under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System?
Saul Ewing LLP
The hospital outpatient prospective payment system ("HOPPS") provides for outlier payments to protect hospitals aga.
Office of Inspector General Releases 1999 Work Plan
Perling, Lester J. of Broad and Cassel
The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services ("OIG") issues a Work Plan for each .
The New HIPAA Privacy Rule -- What is it and who should care?
John A. Rosendahl of Williams Kastner
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. In trying to streamline the complicated and fragmented health care system and reduce costs, Congress included within HIPAA what it entitled "Administrative Simplification" provisions, designed to make it easier and cheaper for health care providers and health plans to transmit health information electronically.
HIPAA and WiFi -- Regulatory Tangles for Wireless Health Care Networks
Michael Van Eckhardt,Rebecca L. Williams RN and Richard D. Marks of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
The growing use of wireless networks by health care professionals presents tremendous challenges to health care IT managers. One of the fundamental axioms of IT is that there is a tradeoff between access and security: easier access translates to greater security risks. True to this axiom, the ease of access that wireless networks offer is matched by the security challenges those networks present.
Governments and Health: A Time for Leadership
of Goodman and Carr
As Ontario?s health budget closes in on $30 Billion while hospital deficits mount and hopes for a truly integrated health care system dwindle, the challenge lies not in crafting better laws to regulate the silos but rather to re-examine the conceptual frame of reference driving government policy.
Summary of Final Changes to EMTALA Regulations
M. Steven Lipton of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
On August 29, 2003, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the long-anticipated final regulations revising the EMTALA obligations for hospitals and physicians. The regulations are scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Sept. 9, 2003, and will be effective on Nov. 10, 2003.
Hospital Referrals to Home Health Agencies: New Restrictions
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Adopting language introduced by Rep. Pete Stark (D-California), the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (the Act) includes .
Striking OutÃÂ
Modern Healthcare
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC
Federal agencies have been striking out when they step up to the plate to challenge a hospital merger in court. Li.