Soothing Stark?
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) ...
NJ Appellate Division Holds that Continued Employment Demonstrates Consent to an Employer’s Mandatory Arbitration Policy
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 ...
New OIG Litigation Team To Focus on Fines, Exclusions from Federal Programs
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 ...
OIG Recommends Steps for Compliance by Health Care Governing Boards
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 ...
Next Round of HIPAA Compliance Audits Still on Hold
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 ...
Study: 40 Percent of Doctors Opt for Fines Over High-Quality Reporting Compliance
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 ...
Documentation is Vital for HIPAA Compliance
Phase II HIPAA audits are coming soon, and while each individual hospital has a very small chance of actually being the subject of an audit, it is still important to ...
HIPAA Compliance Trends That Will Be Big This Year
A couple of months into 2015, we are still piecing together what we can expect to be the major issues facing the health care industry this year. In terms of ...
More than 11 Million People Have Signed Up for Affordable Care Act Insurance
On Tuesday, February 17, one day after open enrollment ended for Affordable Care Act coverage for 2015, the White House announced that more than 11 million people will be covered ...
How Do Emergency Situations Impact HIPAA Compliance?
Every time an emergency public health situation arises in the news, a debate ensues about patient privacy. Strict Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards ensure that patients receive privacy, ...