Health Care Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued two highly-anticipated final rules (collectively, the “Final Rule”) to modernize and clarify the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Statute (“Stark”) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”).

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NASHP

AUGUST 30, 2023

Drafting Note : Rural emergency hospitals are defined in accordance with federal regulations, 87 Fed Reg. Rural Hospital” means a hospital designated as a rural hospital under federal and state law. The re-enrollment/re-licensure requires a state survey under federal law. 71748 Section 3.

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Sheppard Health Law

JULY 1, 2022

In its opinion, the Court further states that the right to abortion is not in the text of the Constitution, not a part of this nation’s fundamental history or concept of ordered liberty, that abortion restrictions are subject to rational basis review, and that the authority to regulate abortions lies with the 50 individual states. Next Steps.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 20, 2023

Research has indicated that healthcare systems that connect patients to basic resources have observed improvements in population health metrics, fostered trust with their patient base, and experienced reduced hospitalization costs.

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Sheppard Health Law

AUGUST 24, 2021

Although the Departments do not intend to issue any regulations regarding CAA Division BB Section 201, they will issue guidance about how plans and issuers should submit attestations of compliance. By 2024, assuming no additional deferrals, consumers and healthcare industry participants will be awash in pricing data for all services.

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Sheppard Health Law

AUGUST 24, 2021

Although the Departments do not intend to issue any regulations regarding CAA Division BB Section 201, they will issue guidance about how plans and issuers should submit attestations of compliance. By 2024, assuming no additional deferrals, consumers and healthcare industry participants will be awash in pricing data for all services.

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ACHE

MARCH 4, 2021

One of the many important lessons for healthcare leaders to take away from 2020 is that leader-to-leader communication and collaboration can help individuals and organizations thrive, even in the most challenging of circumstances. Each session marked with an asterisk (*) below qualifies for 1 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credit.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 6, 2023

trillion in funding across a range of domestic initiatives, including certain appropriations to healthcare and related programs. Key Funding of Related Healthcare Programs. On December 29, 2022 , President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (the “Act”). The Act provides for nearly $1.7 Telehealth.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Although to avoid these situations, healthcare organizations now rely on experienced companies to provide medical Billing and coding services. billion get wasted due to medical fraud and abuse, which increases the healthcare total cost. It conflicts with insurance laws and adds to the burden on the healthcare system.

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Etactics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Department of Justice (DOJ) estimates that healthcare fraud generates close to $100 billion a year. In 2021 , there were… 831 new criminal healthcare fraud investigations 805 new civil healthcare fraud investigations With such high numbers of cases and no end seeming to be in sight, how can you avoid becoming a healthcare fraud statistic?

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Patient Safety Movement

AUGUST 29, 2023

Our founder, Joe Kiani, demanded that we call people in office at the local, state, and federal levels to hardwire patient safety; and align incentives so that every hospital puts in place actionable evidence-based incentives. 4C: Develop Federal Healthcare Delivery Systems’ capacities and showcase results as exemplars for safer healthcare.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 27, 2022

Instead, plans and issuers may still take corrective action and, in so doing, avoid the triple-whammy of being named in next year’s report, having notice of noncompliance sent to plan participants and enrollees (essentially rolling out a red carpet for class action litigation), and the Tri-Agencies notifying the state regulator.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Self-pay patients also include individuals enrolled in short-term, limited-duration plans or other types of products not regulated as health insurance coverage. Under what circumstances must a provider provide notice and a GFE?

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 21, 2023

Jon Moore, MS, JD, HCISPP, Chief Risk Officer and SVP of Clearwater Recent advances in Generative AI Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT, have been making waves across various industries, not least in healthcare. Applications in Healthcare AI models are transforming healthcare with an increasing range of applications.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The decision held that there is no federal constitutional right to an abortion, leaving the ability to regulate access to abortion services to the states. If you have questions or are seeking counsel on these recent changes, you may contact any member of our Healthcare Team for assistance.

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