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Apr.03.2012 New MLR Final Rule for Community Rated Plans Under FEHBP
Feb.07.2012 DOL Issues Long-Awaited Final Rules For Service-Provider Compensation Disclosures Under ERISA
Jan.09.2012 IRS Issues Updated Guidance on Mandatory Form W-2 Informational Reporting of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage
Dec.01.2011 Federal Funding Opportunity: Challenge Grant Announcement Solicits Proposals Totaling $1 Billion to Promote Health Care Innovation
Nov.18.2011 Antitrust Division Challenges Montana Plan's Deal with Hospitals
Oct.31.2011 Nevada Supreme Court Rules Common Law Doctrine of Unconscionability Preempted By Medicare Advantage Law
Oct.21.2011 Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services Releases Final ACO Rule and Additional Guidance
Oct.21.2011 IOM Issues Report, Essential Health Benefits: Balancing Coverage and Costs
Oct.07.2011 CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Revise Medicare Parts C and D Regulations
Oct.04.2011 CMS Confirms Hospitals May Not Bill Secondary Payor Insurers For Amounts In Excess Of Medicare Coinsurance And Deductible Amounts
Aug.26.2011 CMS issues regulations implementing the Medicare Improvements to Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) of 2008
Aug.12.2011 11th Circuit Ruling On PPACA Constitutionality
Jul.12.2011 Department of Health and Human Services Releases Affordable Insurance Exchange Proposed Regulations
May.19.2011 CMS Rules on Premium Increases
May.19.2011 New Accountable Care Model Information From CMS
Apr.01.2011 IRS Issues Guidance on Mandatory Form W-2 Informational Reporting of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage
Jan.28.2011 OFCCP Directive Continues Agency's Efforts To Expand Its Jurisdiction Over Health Care Providers
Jan.04.2011 Corrections to the Medical Loss Ratio Interim Final Rule
Dec.22.2010 CMS Issues RADV Methodology for Comment
Dec.13.2010 The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Issued a Declaratory Judgment Today Finding PPACA’s Minimum Essential Coverage Provision Exceeds the Constitutional Boundaries of Congressional Power
Dec.02.2010 Health Insurance Issuers Implementing Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Requirements Under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Nov.15.2010 CMS Announces One Year Delay Of Requirement To Report Liability Payments Under The Medicare Secondary Payer Statute
Oct.07.2010 Michigan court upholds PPACA "Individual Mandate"
Sep.20.2010 Federal Trade Commission and Department of Health and Human Services Announce Public Workshops Addressing Legal Implications of Accountable Care Organizations
Sep.01.2010 Ninth Circuit Addresses Medicare Preemption in New Uhm v. Humana Opinion
Apr.14.2010 Administration seeks comments to get ready for health reform expense ratio and related regulations
Apr.09.2010 Detailed Summary of Health Reform Legislation
Apr.07.2010 CMS Issues Final Rule on Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Part D Programs
Mar.24.2010 Health Reform Legislation Enacted
Mar.02.2010 CMS Provides Additional Guidance Regarding The Delay Of The Reporting Requirement Under The Medicare Secondary Payer Statute
Mar.01.2010 Interim Final Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Regulations Issued
Feb.19.2010 CMS Unexpectedly Announces 9-Month Delay Of Requirement To Report Liability Payments Under The Medicare Secondary Payer Statute
Jan.05.2010 CMS Proposes Definition Of Meaningful Use Of EHR; ONC Publishes Interim Final Rule Regarding EHR Certification And Standards
Dec.08.2009 CMS Proposed Rulemaking For The Medicare Advantage And Medicare Prescription Drug Programs
Nov.23.2009 Ninth Circuit Leaves Open Possibility for Claims by FCA Defendant Against Allegedly Liable Third Party
Nov.06.2009 FTC Announces Fourth Extension of Red Flags Rule Enforcement
Nov.06.2009 HIPAA Interim Final Rule, October 30, 2009
Oct.28.2009 "Retroactive" Amendments to False Claims Act Found Unconstitutional
Oct.20.2009 CMS Provides Guidance on Use of Medicare Advantage Enrollee Information for Communications
Oct.15.2009 Updates on the HIPAA Breach Notification Requirements
Aug.05.2009 Attorney General Commits to "Smart on Crime" Approach to Economic Crimes
Aug.03.2009 FTC Extends Enforcement Date of Red Flags Rule
Jul.30.2009 FTC Again Delays Enforcement of Red Flags Rule
Jul.28.2009 FTC Sues Virginia Health System for Alleged Anticompetitive Acquisition of Imaging Center and Outpatient Surgery Center
Jun.17.2009 Hospitals Contracting With HMO to Provide Medical Services to Federal Employees Held to be "Subcontractors" Even Where Subcontract Fails To Include EEO And Affirmative Action Provisions
May.28.2009 New False Claims Act Amendments Significantly Impact Health Care Entities And Their "Obligations" Regarding Overpayments
May.22.2009 Genetic Discrimination Act Restriction Becomes Effective
May.22.2009 OIG Issues New Advisory Opinion Identifying Acceptable and Risky On-Call Physician Payment Arrangements
Mar.04.2009 CMS Re-Issues Draft 2010 Medicare Advantage, Prescription Drug Plan and Health Plan Call Letter
Feb.18.2009 Changes in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Dec.30.2008 FTC Files Antitrust Suit Against Ovation: The Government Seeks Divestiture and Disgorgement of Profits
Dec.18.2008 Secretary Leavitt Announces New Principles, Tools to Protect Privacy, Encourage More Effective Use of Patient Information to Improve Care
Dec.04.2008 NIST HIPAA Security Rule Guidance
Dec.01.2008 EPA to Allow Certain Hazardous Pharmaceuticals to be Disposed of as Universal Waste
Nov.14.2008 FTC Grants Reprieve: Health Care Companies Prepare
Oct.16.2008 Court Issues Final Consent Judgment On United-Sierra Acquisition
Oct.07.2008 Non-Contracted Ambulance Services Can Be "Emergency Services" Subject to State Medicaid Rate Cap Payment by Medicaid MCOs
Aug.26.2008 Massachusetts Law Imposes Limitations and Monitoring Requirements on Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Company Interactions with Health Care Practitioners and Facilities
Aug.22.2008 New FDA Label Change Rule
Jul.15.2008 PhRMA Updates Marketing Code for Interacting with Healthcare Professionals; California Law Mandates Updates to Comprehensive Compliance Programs of Covered Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies
Jun.30.2008 Supreme Court Limits Deference for ERISA Claims Denials by Fiduciaries with Conflicts of Interest
May.28.2008 The Fifth Circuit Affirms the FTC’s Ruling and Order Against North Texas Specialty Physicians
May.22.2008 Two New FTC Hospital Merger Enforcement Actions: The FTC Seeks to Block Hospital Merger in Northern Virginia and Issues Order Requiring Merged Hospital in Illinois to Create Independent Negotiating Teams
May.09.2008 CMS Proposes New Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Rule
Feb.28.2008 United’s Acquisition of Sierra Proceeds with Settlement of Medicare Advantage Antitrust Allegations
Feb.01.2008 Crowell & Moring Obtains Victory In First Tried Indirect Purchaser Pharmaceutical Antitrust Case
Jan.24.2008 IRS Releases Final Version of Form 990 (Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax)
Jan.04.2008 EEOC Final Rule Allows Employers to Reduce or Eliminate Retiree Benefits for Medicare-Eligible Retirees
Dec.17.2007 HHS OIG OKs Incentive Arrangements for Hospital Services in MediGap Product
Dec.17.2007 Dept. of Labor Clarifies HIPAA with Compliance Safe Harbor
Aug.14.2007 FTC Finds Evanston Hospital Merger Unlawful, But Refuses to Order Spin-Off
Jun.14.2007 Third Circuit Upholds EEOC Rule Permitting Retiree Health Plan Coordination of Benefits with Medicare
Apr.19.2007 Health Plans Need Contingency Plans for National Provider Identification Compliance after May 23, 2007
Mar.30.2007 Supreme Court Deals Set-Back to Whistleblowers
Mar.01.2007 Bill To Repeal Mccarran-Ferguson Act Antitrust Exemption For Insurance Business Introduced
Feb.28.2007 CON Laws Pose Threat to Health Care Markets, DOJ Antitrust Division Official Tells Georgia Legislative Committee
Feb.01.2007 Health Savings Accounts Expanded in Year-End Legislation
Jan.22.2007 Good Guidance Practices and Other Regulatory Management Reforms
Dec.13.2006 Out With Thompson - In With McNulty: Department of Justice Issues New Guidance to Prosecutors
Aug.29.2006 HHS Issues Final Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors and Stark Exceptions for Donations of E-Prescribing & Electronic Health Record Technology
Jul.27.2006 CMS Releases Final Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Marketing Guidelines
Jul.24.2006 Fifth Circuit Faults IRS Attempt To Impose Intermediate Sanctions On Owners Of Home Health Care Agencies
Apr.14.2006 OIG Opines on Nominal Value, Federal Health Care Program Carve-Outs, and Applicability of Safe Harbors in Context of Multi-Layered Relationships
Feb.24.2006 Fraud, Wast and Abuse Guidance for Medicare Part D
Feb.09.2006 Congress Requires False Claims Act Employee Materials for Medicaid Providers and Plans
Feb.01.2006 CMS Part D Guidance on LTC Pharmacy Rebates Creates Confusion
Feb.01.2006 Judges Tosses RICO Managed Care Claims Against PacifiCare
Jan.06.2006 DOJ Consent Order Resolves Antitrust Concerns for United - PacifiCare Transaction
Jan.04.2006 District of Columbia Law Limiting Pharmaceutical Prices Held Unconstitutional
Dec.15.2005 Crowell & Moring Attorneys Successfully Rebuff Challenge to Modification of Medicare Coordination of Benefits Contract
Dec.09.2005 HHS OIG Issues Work Plan for 2006
Dec.02.2005 Arbitrators Dismiss United Healthcare’s Antitrust Claims against Chicago Health Care System
Nov.30.2005 Third Circuit Issues Important HIPAA Decision
Nov.29.2005 First Circuit Upholds Maine Law Requiring Disclosures by Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Nov.21.2005 CMS Guidance Bars Providers from Seeking Payment Over Medicare Rates from Secondary Payors
Nov.14.2005 D.C. Circuit Refuses to Remedy Hospital Wage Data Errors by Medicare
Nov.11.2005 Legal Approaches To Waiving Co-Payment Obligations As An Out-Of-Network Provider
Nov.03.2005 HHS Proposes Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor and Stark Exceptions For The Donation of E-Prescribing & Electronic Health Record Technology
Oct.29.2005 TRO Blocks Deceptive Claims That Drug Card Would Provide Free Drugs
Oct.28.2005 FTC ALJ Order Hospital Merger Undone
Oct.23.2005 Court Lifts Injunction Against EEOC Retiree Health Regulations
Sep.08.2005 New State Security Breach Notification Laws
Aug.23.2005 New Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 Enacted
Jul.01.2005 New Kickback Safe Harbor for Federally Qualified Health Centers
Jun.10.2005 DOJ Says HIPAA Criminal Liability Limited to Covered Entities
Jun.10.2005 OPM Amends FEHBP Regulations
Jun.08.2005 CMS Releases Retiree Plan Drug Subsidy Guidance
Jun.01.2005 CMS Issues Draft Part D Plan Marketing Guidelines
May.17.2005 DC Insurance Commissioner Clarifies Charitable Obligations of Blue Cross/Blue Shield Plan
Mar.08.2005 Gainsharing Client Alert
Mar.03.2005 Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit and Medicare Advantage FIinal Regulations
Mar.02.2005 DOL Provides New ERISA Guidance Regarding Reporting of Commissions and Fees Paid to Insurance Brokers and Agents
Feb.07.2005 New Developments on Drug Reimportation
Feb.07.2005 Final Health Coverage Portability Regulations Clarify Preexisting Condition Exclusion Requirements
Feb.05.2005 IG Issues Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals
Feb.05.2005 Court Says Provider Can See Search Affidavit
Jan.29.2005 Ambulatory Surgery Center Can Press Antitrust Claim against Hospital
Nov.01.2004 New Patent Applications for Health Insurance Plan Technology Innovations
Sep.01.2004 Promotion of HSAs May Raise Broker-Dealer and Investment Adviser Registration Concerns
Aug.26.2004 First Ever HIPAA Privacy Criminal Conviction
Aug.16.2004 Court Dismisses Resident Match Antitrust Lawsuit
Jul.26.2004 FTC/DOJ Report Pushes Competition for Health Care Industry Ills
Jul.26.2004 IRS Expands Period for Provider Incentive Payment Deductibility
Jul.26.2004 CMS Issues Proposed Regulations Implementing Medicare Part D Drug Benefit and Medicare Advantage Program
Jul.22.2004 CMS Holds Open Meeting on Medicare Advantage Regions
Jul.02.2004 OIG Issues Corporate Compliance Guide for Boards
Jun.22.2004 ERISA Preempts State Law Claims Challenging Coverage Denials
Jun.18.2004 Class Action Suits Against Non-Profit Hospitals
May.27.2004 DOL Issues Final Rules on COBRA Notice Requirements
Apr.06.2004 The Stark II Phase II Interim Final Rule
Mar.26.2004 EPA Signs "Self-audit" Agreements With Three Hospitals
Mar.11.2004 HHS OIG Report on MCO Institutional Status Patients
Mar.08.2004 FEHBP Final Rule on Provider Sanctions
Feb.13.2004 Crowell & Moring Helps St. Francis Hospital Achieve OIG "Self-Disclosure" Settlement
Feb.11.2004 FTC Challenges Consummated Hospital Merger in Illinois and Related Physician Pricing Actions
Jan.16.2004 Congressional Investigation of Pharmacy Rebates on Medicaid Drugs
Jan.12.2004 The FCC Expands Eligibility for Discounts on Charges for Telecommunications Services Supporting Rural Health Care
Jan.01.2004 The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003
Dec.22.2003 Tax Provisions of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003
Dec.22.2003 House and Senate Pass Mental Health Parity Extension
Dec.22.2003 Treasury and IRS Announce 2003-2004 Priority Guidance Plan for Employee Benefits Issues
Dec.22.2003 IRS Announces Inflation-Adjusted Dollar Limits for 2004
Nov.28.2003 Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Issues a Final Rule on Medicare + Choice ("M+C")
Nov.15.2003 CMS Issues EMTALA Interim Guidance to State Survey Agency Directors Concerning Hospital Compliance
Oct.30.2003 ASBCA Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of FEHBP Contractor on Audit Disallowance
Sep.24.2003 HHS Clarifies NPDB Reporting Obligations
Sep.23.2003 IRS Allows Reimbursement of OTC Drugs Under Employer-Sponsored Health Plans
Sep.16.2003 HHS OIG Publishes Proposed Rules on Exclusion of Providers for Charging Medicare Substantially in Excess of Usual Charges
Jul.31.2003 Conferees Reach Agreement on Medicare Contractor Reform Legislation
Jul.24.2003 Federal Court Grants Summary Judgment Against Health Plan's Antitrust Challenge to Hospital Combination in Pennsylvania
Jul.20.2003 First IRS letter ruling on "Health Reimbursement Arrangements"
Jul.16.2003 EEOC Proposes to Ease ADEA Limits on Health Benefit Reductions for Medicare Eligible Retirees
Jun.14.2003 Sixth Circuit Upholds Finding that Agreement Between Andrx and Hoechst Marion Roussel was a Per Se Illegal Market Division
Jun.13.2003 FDA Gives Boost to Generics
Jun.12.2003 Supreme Court Relaxes Proof Requirements in EEO Cases
May.30.2003 DOL Issues Proposed COBRA Notice Regulations
May.28.2003 CMS Determines Not to Proceed With Specialty Hospital Amendment to Stark Rule
May.15.2003 DOL Compliance Guidance for Health Plans
Apr.12.2003 HHS OIG Audit Report on Institutional Status of Medicare + Choice Enrollees
Apr.08.2003 RICO Claims Arbitrable
Apr.03.2003 U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Kentucky "Any Willing Provider" Laws that Restrict HMOs' Ability to Select Providers
Feb.23.2003 HHS Issues New HIPAA Security Rule
Feb.15.2003 Health Plans in the Cross Hairs: FDA Gets Tough on Imported Prescription Drugs Plans Could Face Criminal, Civil Liability
Feb.04.2003 Hospital Not A Subcontractor Under Federal Employees Health Benefit Program
Jan.27.2003 CMS Issues Quality Improvement Program Requirements for Hospitals
Jan.15.2003 Ohio Supreme Court Grants $32.5 Million Punitive Damages in Challenge to Benefit Denial and Review Process
Jan.07.2003 Maine's Discount Drug Program Struck Down
Dec.15.2002 DOJ Antitrust Settlement Requires North Carolina Physician Group To Disband
Dec.04.2002 New HIPAA Privacy Rule Guidance
Nov.20.2002 11th Circuit Grants Appeal of Provider Class Certification
Oct.15.2002 OIG Focus on Hospital DRG Outlier Payments
Sep.12.2002 Federal Trade Commission Workshop On Healthcare Competition Law & Policy
Aug.15.2002 HHS Publishes Final Changes to HIPAA Privacy Rule
Aug.01.2002 FTC Report Recommends Changes in Hatch-Waxman Law
Jun.02.2002 Recent HIPAA and ERISA Guidance and Rules Issued by Department of Labor and HHS
Jun.01.2002 HHS Releases Supplemental HIPAA Regulations
Apr.01.2002 Pharmaceutical Company Settles FTC Charges for Unintentional Disclosure of Email Addresses of Consumers
Mar.28.2002 Changes To HIPAA Privacy Rule Proposed By HHS Secretary - Public Comments Due By April 26, 2002
Mar.25.2002 OSHA - Beverly Settlement Requires Lifting Equipment To Avoid Ergonomic Injuries
Mar.19.2002 On Behalf of Sagamore Health Network, Crowell & Moring Attorneys Successfully Defeated a Preliminary Injunction Motion Brought by Gateway Contracting Services in the Southern District of Indiana
Feb.21.2002 FTC Advisory Opinion Approves Collective Negotiation With Payors for Clinically Integrated Physician Network
Feb.20.2002 New HHS Guidance on Providers' Ability to Seek Payment Over Medicare Rates from Secondary Payors -- SUPERSEDED
January 12, 2002 Quality of Service Deficiency Rejected as Basis for False Claim
Jan.05.2002 DOL Publishes Q&A on Claims Processing and Appeals Regulations
Dec.15.2001 Stark Law "Set In Advance" Rule Definition Delayed
Nov.21.2001 HHS OIG Issues Open Letter On Changes In OIG Civil Fraud Settlement Policies and Practices
Oct.23.2001 Federation of Physicians and Dentists Consents to Judgment in Delaware Sherman Act Case
Aug.21.2001 EEOC Revokes Stance That Health Plans Discriminate If Retiree Benefits Change Upon Medicare Eligibility
Aug.01.2001 Courts Upholds Law Mandating Matching Copays and Supply Limits for Mail and Retail Pharmacy HMO Benefits
Jul.28.2001 Appeals Court Ruling Permits "Disproportionate Share Payment" Reopenings and Authorizes "Mandamus" Review of Medicare Action
Jul.10.2001 Partial Delay in New ERISA Claims Review and Appeal Regulations
Mar.03.2001 Managed Care Litigation
Jan.31.2001 Phase I Final Stark Rule Issued
Dec.28.2000 Final Privacy Regulations Are Issued Under HIPAA
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