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 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 AheadThis post is a courtesy of Fox Rothschild attorney William H. Maruca, Esq., and was first published as an Alert on Fox’s website.
A bipartisan bill introduced this summer
Continue Reading Proposed Amendments to False Claims Act Would Tilt the Playing Field
Last month, CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced several initiatives to innovate the delivery of patient care at the ground level. In collaboration with the Trump Administration and other federal agencies,
Continue Reading CMS Announces New Initiatives for Innovating Patient Care
Advancements in healthcare technology continue at an explosive pace and nowhere is this more evident than in the field of mobile healthcare applications. Technology giants such as Apple and Garmin
Continue Reading Healthcare Apps: Physicians Should Proceed with Caution
The Medicare incentive programs with which you and your medical practice are familiar will soon be no more. As of January 1, 2017, these programs (including the Electronic Health Records
Continue Reading Are You Ready for the New Medicare Quality Payment Program? (Part 2): Basics of the MIPS and How to Qualify in 2017
You may have heard that a transformation of Medicare’s physician payment program is in the works. However, you may not know that the structure of the new program, called the
Continue Reading Are You Ready for the New Medicare Quality Payment Program? (New Blog Series)
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires Medicare providers to return overpayments within 60 days of the date they are identified in order to avoid liability under the False Claims Act.
Continue Reading CMS Finally Makes Reasonable Changes to 60-Day Overpayment Rule
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a new tool designed to give providers and consumers insight into Medicare drug spending. The Medicare Drug Spending Dashboard,
Continue Reading New Medicare Dashboard Highlights Drug Spending
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has stated its intention to move at least 50% of Medicare payments from fee for service to alternative payment systems based on
Continue Reading CMS Publishes Draft Plan for Quality Measurement in Support of Payment Reform