The comment period for the CMS CY 2025 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule recently closed on Monday, September 9th. Based on previous years, the Final Rule can be expected
Continue Reading CMS Proposed Rule Decreases Physician Payments, Expands Telehealth, and Much More
Beginning on January 1, 2025, employment-based non-compete covenants will be unenforceable against physicians, certified registered nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified registered nurse anesthetists (each, a “practitioner”) in Pennsylvania, unless
Continue Reading Pennsylvania Limits Non-Competes for Most Health Care Practitioners and Requires Patient Disclosure Upon DepartureFox Rothschild Partners William Maruca, Esq. and Catherine Wadhwani, Esq. recently recorded a podcast summarizing key points on physician hiring, especially considerations when hiring and contracting with foreign national physicians.
Continue Reading Recent Podcast: Physician Recruitment and Immigration
This 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
More and more physicians are opting to leave private practice (or to skip it altogether) for the perceived job security and hopefully steady paycheck of hospital employment. According to a
Continue Reading Private Practice Can Mean Job Safety for Physicians
This post is authored by Catherine Wadhwani, Partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s Immigration Practice Group. The post first appeared on Fox’s Immigration View Blog:
We hear the reports
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Fellow Fox Rothschild LLP attorneys Margaret J. Davino, Salvatore J. Russo and Nawa A. Lodin generously contributed this post.
On March 17, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Continue Reading Medicare and OCR Relax Telehealth Rules Under Medicare and HIPAA
On October 24, 2018, Congress enacted a new anti-kickback law that applies to many commercial health insurance plans, as well as Medicare and Medicaid. The law, known as the “Eliminating
Continue Reading New Anti-Kickback Law Targets Opioid Crisis
CMS recently issued its proposed changes to the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which include a controversial change to the reimbursement rates for Level 2-5 evaluation and management (E/M) services
Continue Reading Proposed Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program in 2019
[For more information on CMS’s new Quality Payment Program and what physicians need to report in 2017, please see our prior blog posts here and here.]
CMS recently issued
Continue Reading MACRA Update: Attestation Regarding Your EHR System