The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced it will require off-cycle revalidation for all Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs). During this process, CMS will collect ownership, management, and related party information that was not previously required to be disclosed. CMS is giving SNFs only 90 days to respond.…
Continue Reading Attention SNFs: Be on the Lookout for CMS Off-Cycle RevalidationPennsylvania Limits Non-Competes for Most Health Care Practitioners and Requires Patient Disclosure Upon Departure
Beginning on January 1, 2025, employment-based non-compete covenants will be unenforceable against physicians, certified registered…
Continue Reading Pennsylvania Limits Non-Competes for Most Health Care Practitioners and Requires Patient Disclosure Upon DepartureThe CFPB’s Continued Spotlight on Medical Debt Emphasizes the Importance of Proper Provider Billing
Last month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its 2023 Annual Report on the…
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Last month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) kicked off a rulemaking process that, if enacted, would reshape the credit reporting and debt collection landscape and could have a detrimental…
Continue Reading The CFPB Considers Rules to Remove Medical Debt from Credit Reports: What does this Mean for Medical and Dental Providers?This post from Immigration Practice Group Co-Chair, Catherine Wadhwani, suggests J-1 Physician Waiver sponsorship as a means of meeting patient needs.
Continue Reading J-1 Waivered Physicians – Meeting Patient NeedsThe CFPB’s Latest Report on Medical Credit Cards Addresses Misleading Activity by Providers.
Federal regulators are focusing in on medical credit cards and financing plans and the roles that healthcare providers have in facilitating them. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) is a…
Continue Reading The CFPB’s Latest Report on Medical Credit Cards Addresses Misleading Activity by Providers.Are We There Yet? New HIPAA Privacy Protections for Reproductive Health Data May Be Just Ahead
This blog post was first published on the Fox HIPAA & Health Information Technology Blog. It covers a critical new rule proposed by the Office For Civil Rights to close…
Continue Reading Are We There Yet? New HIPAA Privacy Protections for Reproductive Health Data May Be Just AheadWhen COVID-19 was on the rise, ransomware attacks were right alongside it. A new investigation published in JAMA Health Forum found that ransomware attacks more than doubled in the last…
Continue Reading Reduce Your Risk (And We’re Not Just Talking COVID-19 Vaccines)Two landmark cases fraught with False Claim Act (“FCA”) allegations of fraudulent billing for prescription drugs against food and pharmacy chains are making their way from the Seventh Circuit to…
Continue Reading Is it Really Fraud? The Supreme Court Will DecideFive Differences Between the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the Federal Stark Law
Physicians around the country are familiar with the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)) and the Federal Physician Self-Referral Law, commonly referred to as the Stark Law (“Stark”)…
Continue Reading Five Differences Between the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the Federal Stark LawFTC Proposes Broad Rule Banning Non-Compete Covenants with Physicians and Other Healthcare Workers
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) which would broadly prohibit companies from entering into or enforcing non-competition agreements or clauses…
Continue Reading FTC Proposes Broad Rule Banning Non-Compete Covenants with Physicians and Other Healthcare WorkersOn December 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a Bulletin warning HIPAA covered entities and business associates about the use…
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