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NATIONAL HHS expands health reimbursement coverage 9 hospital, health system construction projects worth $300M or more May healthcare data breaches: More than 2 million patients affected Dual Payment Model for Long Term Care Hospitals Could Boost Hospice Use Uber Health will provide injured workers with transportation to medical appointments These Are The Top Children’s Hospitals…Read More

Energy and Commerce Examines Surprise Medical Billing On June 12, the House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee held a legislative hearing on surprise medical bills as Congress continues tackling the issue on how best to resolve payment disputes between providers and health plans. There is broad agreement to pass legislation addressing surprise medical bills, but…Read More

Most skilled nursing facilities and state survey agencies are not correctly reporting and investigating abuse and neglect incidents that occur against skilled nursing residents, according to the June 7, 2019, Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report titled Incidents of Potential Abuse and Neglect at Skilled Nursing Facilities…Read More

NATIONAL How CMS’ New Value-Based Bundled Payment Method Affects Healthcare Providers The Uber of prescription drugs: Web startups raise concerns about access to Rx medicine Cybersecurity lawsuit against Allscripts tossed by judge AMA’s president-elect is Texas allergist, immunologist Dr. Susan Bailey CMS plans to release list of 400 troubled nursing homes following Senate report 5…Read More

While much focus was given to the individual and corporate tax reductions provided in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”), the TCJA also stirred up a great deal of interest among investors with the designation of qualified opportunity zones (“Opportunity Zones”). The Opportunity Zone additions to the Internal Revenue Code allow investors…Read More

On Monday, June 3, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (the “Court”) ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has the authority to regulate certain stem cell-based treatments offered by U.S. Stem Cell Clinic, LLC (the “Clinic”) and U.S. Stem Cell, Inc. After the Clinic failed to heed repeated…Read More

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently made several announcements regarding graduate medical education (“GME”). This article discusses three matters that are particularly significant for teaching hospitals, teaching physicians and other GME stakeholders. First, CMS issued its inpatient prospective payment system (“IPPS”) proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) for fiscal year 2020 and announced the…Read More

This is another article in a series discussing the complete overhaul of Part 483 to Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations the Requirements for States and Long-Term Care Facilities (“Final Regulations”) by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”). To view other articles in this series, click here. Beginning on November 28, 2019,…Read More

In an unanimous decision authored by Justice Ginsburg, the U.S. Supreme Court recently announced that Title VII’s charge-filing precondition is not a jurisdictional requirement but instead a mandatory claim-processing rule, which may be forfeited if the party asserting the rule waits too long to raise an objection.[1] This decision emphasizes the importance of timely employer…Read More

American Medical Collection Agency (“AMCA”), a collection agency that works primarily with health care companies, recently announced a breach of protected health information (“PHI”) and personally identifiable information (“PII”) affecting over 19.6 million patients. Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, both clients of AMCA, have reported that their patients have been impacted by the incident. AMCA has…Read More