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 MoreTwo 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 DecideOn August 18, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued guidance regarding the looming end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”) and the associated emergency authority
Continue Reading CMS Advises Healthcare Providers to Prepare for End of PHE FlexibilitiesOn June 20, 2017, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a proposed rule which would exempt a greater number of small practices from complying with the Medicare
Continue Reading More Small Physician Practices May Become Exempt from MACRA
USA Today, New York Times, BNA, and several other news outlets have been reporting over the last few weeks about non-competition agreements and non-compete laws especially related to low-wage workers.
Continue Reading Keeping an Eye on Non-Compete Law
The Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the Department of Health and Human Services, generally, would have concerns about a potential or existing referral source receiving free goods or services,
Continue Reading OIG Okays Free Vaccine Dispensing System for Physician Office Use
As a follow up to our most recent post on What You Need to Know About PA’s Child Protective Services Law, you should know that the Pennsylvania Superior Court (PA’s
Continue Reading Physicians May Be Sued in Pennsylvania for Failing to Report Suspected Child Abuse
These are uncertain times for physicians. The future of healthcare is uncertain for everyone involved, from payors to providers to consumers. In fact, there may be only one universal certainty
Continue Reading Practice Planning in Uncertain Times
According to various news outlets, physicians at the University of California student health centers (as many as 150 physicians in all) went on strike this week in protest of
Continue Reading Physicians Go On Strike
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final Physician Fee Schedule for Fiscal Year 2015. The annual Physician Fee Schedule includes various policy and
Continue Reading CMS Issues FY2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule