Healthcarelawinsights.com

Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Pending Bill Calls for Tougher …

WEBU.S. Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) recently introduced a bill addressing cybersecurity protections and oversight in the healthcare …

Actived: 7 days ago

URL: https://www.healthcarelawinsights.com/2024/03/cybersecurity-in-healthcare-pending-bill-calls-for-tougher-protections/

Information Blocking: College & University Student Health Centers

WEBSince last year, the Husch Blackwell privacy attorneys have been working with various healthcare providers—from hospitals to hospices, to independent physician …

Category:  Health Go Health

Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act: Comprehensive …

WEBIn the United States, mental health (“MH”) and substance use disorder (“SUD”) (collectively “MH/SUD”) have continued to represent areas of intense concern. …

Category:  Health Go Health

Information Blocking: Ready or Not, Here it Comes!

WEBOn May 1, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its final rule …

Category:  Health Go Health

New Rules Promotes Patient Access to Personal Healthcare …

WEBInteroperability Rule Timeline. By January 1, 2021, CMS-regulated payers must implement the patient access API. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a CMS …

Category:  Health Go Health

Ketamine Clinics: Five Legal Considerations for Psychedelic …

WEBNatasha is well-versed in historical and current psychedelic research including recent FDA-approved studies on MDMA and psilocybin use for mental health …

Category:  Health Go Health

Judgment Entered in Equal Pay Case for Female Physician

WEBPosted in Labor & Employment. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Denton County Public Health Department resolved a …

Category:  Health Go Health

Significant Change in Medicare Enrollment Risk Categories for SNFs

WEBSection 10.2.1.14 states that “effective January 1, 2023, SNF’s that are initially enrolling or undergoing a change in ownership…fall within the “high” screening …

Category:  Health Go Health

Hospital Turns Tables on Whistleblower: Federal Judge Sends …

WEBIn the world of qui tams, it is usually the whistleblower pushing cases to trial.But on February 23, 2023, a federal judge in West Virginia set down for trial a …

Category:  Health Go Health

CMS Proposes to Expand 36-Month Rule to Hospice Agencies

WEBCMS has stated in the Proposed Rule that, in order to protect bona fide transactions between legitimate parties, hospice agencies would be able to utilize those …

Category:  Health Go Health

DOJ Continues Enforcement Efforts Against Provider-Owned …

WEBLarge managed care plans have been squarely in DOJ’s crosshairs for years, but a late July 2023 Justice Department settlement agreement with one regional …

Category:  Health Go Health

Gift Card Giveaway Does Not Violate Anti-Kickback Statute, HHS …

WEBThe plan of a healthcare consulting firm (the “Firm”) to give gift cards to physicians in exchange for referrals to new customers does not violate the Federal Anti …

Category:  Health Go Health

The Texas Medicare Administrator Contractor Changes

WEBThe Texas Medicare Administrator Contractor changes from TrailBlazer to Novitas (formerly Highmark Medicare Services) For many years, TrailBlazer Health …

Category:  Health Go Health

Inflation Reduction Act Imposes Prescription Drug Pricing Reforms

WEBOn October 14, 2022, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14036, directing the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to consider innovative …

Category:  Health Go Health

Federal Court Reduces FCA Penalties by 82 Percent Because of …

WEBHusch Blackwell’s False Claims Act team previously covered the results of a rare False Claims Act (FCA) trial in which a federal jury found that a surgical product …

Category:  Health Go Health

Federal Judge Acquits Physician Following Criminal E/M Fraud …

WEBThe Justice Department took that rare step in Maryland in connection with a practice in which Dr. Ron Elfenbein, a physician, billed Medicare and private payors a …

Category:  Health Go Health

Unique Considerations in Healthcare M&A Part 1 – Due Diligence

WEBDue diligence is one of the first steps of any transaction and involves a buyer undertaking an in-depth examination of the target to evaluate the business and uncover …

Category:  Health Go Health

OSHA, Workplace Violence, and the Healthcare Industry

WEBIntegra Health Management, No 13-1124 (March 4, 2019), the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) upheld a violation of the General Duty …

Category:  Health Go Health

Federal Guidance on Balance Billing: The No Surprises Act and its

WEBOn July 1, 2021, the Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”), the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), the Department of Treasury (“Treasury”), the Employee Benefits …

Category:  Health Go Health