COVID-19 and Telemedicine
As the world navigates through these unprecedented times in trying to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, our provider clients are routinely asking, “What now?” On March 16, 2020, ...
As the world navigates through these unprecedented times in trying to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, our provider clients are routinely asking, “What now?” On March 16, 2020, ...
On June 28, 2018, a federal judge in Texas held that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) was not permitted to recoup 7.6 million dollars in alleged Medicare ...
On June 7, the New Jersey Senate voted 21-14 to approve the New Jersey Insurance Fair Conduct Act, which now pending before the General Assembly. This bill would create a ...
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) expressed an openness to relaxing current Stark Law restrictions on physician referrals. Specifically, on June 25, 2018, published a Request for Information (RFI) ...
On May 16, 2018, the Third Circuit in American Orthopedic & Sports Medicine v. Independence Blue Cross Blue Shield held anti-assignment clauses in ERISA governed health insurance plans are generally ...
On September 11, 2015, in North Jersey Brain & Spine Center v. Aetna, Inc., the Third Circuit held in a precedential opinion that a patient’s assignment of benefits does not ...
On July 23, 2015, in Jaworski v. Ernst & Young, a three-judge Appellate Division panels upheld language in Ernst & Young’s employment policy that states that employees were deemed to ...
On July 16, 2015, in Allstate New Jersey Insurance Co. v. Gregorio Lajara, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that the right to a civil jury trial provided by Article ...
At the American Health Lawyers Association annual meeting this past week, the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Inspector General announced the implementation of an OIG Litigation ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently provided health care governing boards with some new points of guidance on how to achieve ...
The United States District for the District of New Jersey has certified as a class action a lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of chiropractic physicians who were denied reimbursement ...
An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision could have a major impact on the health care industry. In King v. Burwell, the plaintiffs believe the text of the Affordable Care Act ...
The next round of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance audits is still on hold after a three-year delay, and federal regulators are declining to give any ...
According to a recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, more doctors are taking part in a reporting system geared toward prioritizing the quality of patient care ...
According to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice, Citizens Medical Center in Texas will pay $21.8 million to the federal government to settle allegations of illegal payments to ...