Feb.25.2021 |
OIG Issues Final Rule to Update AKS Safe Harbors: Part II |
Feb.22.2021 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: The ACA Risk Corridors Case |
Feb.17.2021 |
Biden Administration Messes with Texas, Changes Position in California v. Texas |
Jan.28.2021 |
Biden Day Seven – President Biden Takes Executive Action to Strengthen the Affordable Care Act and Other Healthcare Programs |
Jan.21.2021 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Data Analytics and FCA Investigations |
Jan.15.2021 |
Virginia Enacts Permanent COVID-19 Employee Health and Safety Requirements |
Jan.15.2021 |
HHS Finalizes SUNSET Rule, Placing Thousands of Regulations at Risk of Invalidation |
Jan.14.2021 |
New Legislation Eliminates Long-Standing Antitrust Immunity for Health Insurers |
Dec.23.2020 |
COVID Relief and Appropriations Legislation Includes Mental Health Parity Compliance and Oversight Requirements |
Dec.22.2020 |
Stand Up: Third Parties May Challenge False Claims Act Civil Investigative Demands |
Dec.18.2020 |
CMS Expands on Patient Access and Interoperability Requirements for Health Plans |
Dec.17.2020 |
HHS Proposes to Modernize HIPAA to Facilitate Care Coordination and Case Management |
Dec.16.2020 |
Supreme Court Sides with State Regulation of PBMs in Boost to Independent Pharmacies |
Dec.11.2020 |
DOJ Brings First Criminal Charges for Collusion in Labor Markets |
Dec.10.2020 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Rating in the Time of COVID |
Dec.07.2020 |
HHS NPRM Could Invalidate Thousands of Regulations |
Dec.01.2020 |
HHS' OIG Tackles Involuntary Nursing Home Discharges |
Dec.01.2020 |
States Strengthen Mental Health Parity Protections |
Nov.30.2020 |
CMS Issues Sweeping Reform to Modernize the Stark Law: Part I |
Oct.05.2020 |
FCA Suit Alleging Manufacturer Fraudulently Induced HHS to Stockpile $1.4B of Tamiflu to Prevent Influenza Pandemic Allowed to Proceed |
Oct.01.2020 |
CMS Issues Proposed Guidance Directing Health Plans to Account for Risk Corridors Judgment in Recalculated 2015-2018 MLR Reporting |
Sep.18.2020 |
Dismissal, Says Who? Recent Seventh and Ninth Circuit Decisions Offer Competing Views on DOJ’s Dismissal Authority under the False Claims Act, But Congress May Have the Last Word |
Aug.06.2020 |
In the Midst of a Pandemic, the Validity of the Affordable Care Act will be Revisited this Fall |
Aug.03.2020 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: ERISA Preemption of State PBM Regulation |
Jul.23.2020 |
SAMHSA's "Final" Substance Use Disorder Records Confidentiality Rules: a Short-Term Change Towards Further Alignment with HIPAA in 2021 |
Jul.17.2020 |
NY DFS Proposes Strict Measures Relating to Mental Health Parity Compliance |
Jun.29.2020 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My! - Bostock and HHS’s Nondiscrimination Regulations |
Jun.16.2020 |
Trump Administration Scales Back Obama-era Healthcare Nondiscrimination Regulations |
Jun.16.2020 |
Navigating Medical Supply Chain Challenges in the Aftermath of COVID-19 |
Jun.08.2020 |
Nursing Homes Again in the Regulatory Hot Seat: COVID-19 Spurs CMS to Increase Infection Control Survey Penalties |
Jun.04.2020 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My! - Who CARES: The Provider Relief Fund and Other CARES Act Provisions |
Jun.01.2020 |
Testing, Testing - Doors Open at Nursing Homes? CMS Offers Guidance on How and When |
May.29.2020 |
HHS' Distribution of Provider Relief Funding to Skilled Nursing Facilities Along with New Terms and Conditions Raises Compliance Considerations for Providers |
May.14.2020 |
Medicare Agency Announces More Telehealth and Virtual Care Service Expansions in Second Round of Federal Waivers and Rule Changes |
May.08.2020 |
FDA Reissues EUA for Non-NIOSH Approved Respirators Manufactured in China |
Apr.29.2020 |
OIG Seeks Comment on Key Enforcement Parameters and Deadlines For Information Blocking; HHS Delays Enforcement |
Apr.23.2020 |
Congress Approves an Interim Stimulus Package Adding Over $480 Billion in Funding for Small Businesses, Health Care Providers, and Testing |
Apr.20.2020 |
OSHA Issues Memo Regarding Discretion in Enforcement When Considering an Employer’s Good Faith Efforts During COVID-19 |
Apr.16.2020 |
Telehealth Guidance for Health Plans in California During the COVID-19 State of Emergency |
Apr.16.2020 |
OSHA Issues Enforcement Guidance |
Apr.15.2020 |
Eligible Providers Can Now Apply for Telehealth Related Funding Through FCC COVID-19 Telehealth Funding Program |
Apr.13.2020 |
HHS Begins Delivery of Cares Act Provider Relief Funding – What Providers Should Consider |
Apr.09.2020 |
Guide to the COVID-19 Crisis Stark Waivers |
Mar.27.2020 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: What Providers Should Know about COVID-19 (Part 2 – Federal and State Guidance) |
Mar.26.2020 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: What Providers Should Know about COVID-19 (Part 1 – Labor and Employment Issues) |
Mar.24.2020 |
Governor Newsom Continues to Fine Tune California’s Response to COVID-19 |
Mar.20.2020 |
HHS Lifts Major Barriers to Telehealth to Help Reduce the Spread of COVID-19 |
Mar.18.2020 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Medical Loss Ratios (Part 2) |
Mar.11.2020 |
CMS Finalizes New Requirements on Health Plans to Release Health Data; Updates Medicare Conditions of Participation for Hospitals to Send Electronic Notifications |
Mar.10.2020 |
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Emergency Spending Measure Waives Medicare Telehealth Restrictions |
Mar.09.2020 |
HHS Finalizes Sweeping Regulations on Interoperability of Health Information and Information Blocking |
Feb.25.2020 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Medical Loss Ratios (Part 1) |
Feb.05.2020 |
All Aboard: New York Enacts The Women on Corporate Board Study Act |
Feb.04.2020 |
Practice Fusion Settlement Highlights Government’s Increasing Focus on Health Information Technology Certification and Financial Relationships in Enforcement Actions |
Jan.14.2020 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Digital Health Innovation |
Jan.10.2020 |
Governor Signs Legislation Increasing New York Department of Health Scrutiny Over Nursing Home Sales and Other Transactions |
Jan.10.2020 |
DOJ Announces $3B in False Claims Act Recoveries |
Dec.12.2019 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Multi-State Plan Program |
Nov.13.2019 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Pharmacy Benefit Managers |
Oct.23.2019 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: FDA Digital Health Guidance |
Oct.16.2019 |
Playing Catch-Up to Innovation and Value-Based Care: CMS and OIG’s Proposed Fraud and Abuse Regulatory Updates to Physician Self-Referral, Anti-Kickback, and Civil Monetary Penalty Laws |
Oct.10.2019 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits |
Sep.26.2019 |
Beat by Beat: Data Governance Innovation for Healthcare Outcomes in the Asia-Pacific |
Sep.13.2019 |
11th Circuit Issues Long-Awaited Opinion in AseraCare Affirming that Mere Differences in Reasonable Clinical Judgement Cannot Be False Under the FCA and Remanding for New Trial and Consideration of Full Record |
Sep.11.2019 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Removal under ERISA |
Sep.09.2019 |
HHS Proposes Changes to Substance Use Disorder Data Confidentiality Rules to Improve Care Coordination |
Aug.21.2019 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Some Potential Impacts of Legal Challenges to the ACA |
Aug.13.2019 |
CMS Proposes Changes to its Stark Law Advisory Opinion Process |
Aug.07.2019 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Health Care Compliance Programs |
Jul.24.2019 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Private Equity Investing in Health Care |
Jul.10.2019 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Fiduciary Duties Under ERISA |
Jun.26.2019 |
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: FCA Dismissals Under the Granston Memo |
Jun.24.2019 |
Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Tucker Act Case Regarding ACA Payments |
Jun.18.2019 |
Department of Managed Health Care Issues Final Guidance on Licensure Regulation |
May.28.2019 |
Beat by Beat: Harnessing e-Health to Optimize Health Care Delivery in China |
May.10.2019 |
Department of Justice Releases Long-Awaited Guidance on FCA Cooperation Credit |
Apr.02.2019 |
Court Unravels New Association Health Plan Rules |
Mar.06.2019 |
New DMHC Regulation Substantially Expands Number of Entities Requiring Knox-Keene Licensure |
Feb.12.2019 |
Health Plans Seek Supreme Court Review in ACA "Risk Corridors" Cases |
Feb.12.2019 |
ONC Proposes Regulations on Health IT Certification and Information Blocking |
Feb.11.2019 |
CMS Proposes New Requirements on Health Plans to Release Data |
Feb.01.2019 |
HHS Proposed Rule Takes Aim at Drug Rebates from Manufacturers to Health Plans/PBMs, Proposes Safe Harbors to Pass Savings to Consumers and Protect Some Manufacturer-PBM Payments |
Jan.22.2019 |
Amendments to New York NPCL Affect Sole Member Not-for-Profits: Singles Get Ready to Mingle |
Jan.10.2019 |
Supreme Court Clarifies that the Arbitrator, and Not the Court, Determines when Arbitration Is Required Under the Federal Arbitration Act |
Jan.10.2019 |
Open Season: Multi-Agency Report Makes Recommendations to Free the Health Care Sector from Overregulation and Enhance Competition |