Essential Adaptations: Payer Audits 101
Firm Member Vincent N. Buttaci recently appeared on Essential Adaptations, a video podcast hosted by Dr. Jeff Frederick and Dr. John Guiliana of Podiatry Risk Group. Mr. Buttaci discussed the ...
Firm Member Vincent N. Buttaci recently appeared on Essential Adaptations, a video podcast hosted by Dr. Jeff Frederick and Dr. John Guiliana of Podiatry Risk Group. Mr. Buttaci discussed the ...
Unprecedented times do not call for unprecedented prices. This is especially so when that pricing puts the public—specifically patients, healthcare workers, and first-responders—at risk. And as inventory shortages and freight ...
As the landscape of providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, our provider clients continue to request advice on the evolving local and federal legislation on telehealth so ...
Our lives are all being significantly impacted by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. And as some areas of the country move towards mandatory lockdowns and business closures, many of our provider ...
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, ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...