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Hall Render is pleased to announce attorney Lindsay Ramsey has joined the firm’s Indianapolis office. Lindsay has been in private practice in Indianapolis since 2007 and she exclusively focuses on immigration law.  Her practice includes filing employment-based petitions with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services on behalf of corporate clients with a focus on health... READ MORE

Executive Summary On November 6, 2015, the FTC challenged the proposed acquisition of St. Mary’s Medical Center by Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia on the grounds that the proposed acquisition would create a “natural monopoly” and violate the federal antitrust laws. In its complaint, the FTC alleged that the proposed acquisition is... READ MORE

Hall Render is pleased to announce that our Detroit office has been named a 2015 Top Workplace in the Michigan small category by the Detroit Free Press. Hall Render is recognized as one of only 40 companies named in the small category and 135 companies named in total. Recipients of the Top Workplace award... READ MORE

With the arrival of December, the deadline for full compliance with most aspects of Internal Revenue Code Section 501(r) is now just one month away for many tax-exempt hospital organizations. The specific deadlines will vary, however, based upon a hospital’s tax year and other factors. Hospital leadership should take this opportunity to confirm the... READ MORE

New draft guidance (“Draft Guidance”) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and the Office for Human Research Protections (“OHRP”) strongly highlights the need for Institutional Review Boards (“IRBs”) overseeing human subject research to keep detailed minutes of their meetings. Doing so, according to the Draft Guidance, will demonstrate to the IRBs’ research... READ MORE

Hall Render is proud to congratulate its attorneys who have been selected to the 2016 Kentucky Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists. Gerald Stovall has been selected to the Kentucky Super Lawyers list and Brian Veeneman has been named to the KentuckyRising Stars list. Attorneys from over 70 practice areas are rated by Super Lawyers based on peer... READ MORE

While hospitals have spent much of November 2015 grappling with the fallout of the Budget Act’s restriction on off-campus hospital outpatient departments (“HOPD”) (see Hall Render’s previous articles on the restriction, available here and here), another provider-based issue has quietly gone viral among interested parties, as well as being reported in local news outlets. ... READ MORE

Hall Render has recently announced that Tom Donohoe, Jen Gonzalez, Michael Greer, Steve Hahn, Leia Olsen, Christina Torossian and Joe Wolfe have been named Shareholders. Tom Donohoe (Denver office) graduated cum laude from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law with a Health Law Concentration in 2008 and advises health care providers on... READ MORE

On November 16, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a public inspection copy of the Final Rule related to the mandatory bundled payment program known as the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (“CJR”) Model.  The CJR Model is a retrospective bundled payment program for lower extremity joint replacement (“LEJR”) procedures... READ MORE

Overview On October 30, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced the final rule (“Final Rule”)1 in follow up to the proposed rule published in July 2015 pertaining to payment policies under the Physician Fee Schedule for CY 2016 (“Proposed Rule”). In addition to changes to the Physician Fee Schedule and other... READ MORE