Health Care
Posted by:
Amy J. Adolay and Brandon W. Shirley
on December 3, 2018
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced plans to clarify application of federal anti-discrimination requirements on health care providers with Tricare enrollment agreements. The DOL and Tricare providers have long been at odds over whether a Tricare enrollment agreement made one a…
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Posted by:
Susan E. Ziel and Thomas N. Hutchinson
on December 3, 2018
Since 2003, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”), often partnering with other healthcare related organizations such as the American Health Lawyers’ Association and the Health Care Compliance Association, have authored a series of publications for…
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November 18, 2018
A trifecta federal agency approach to expansion efforts related to health reimbursement arrangements (“HRAs”) occurred on October 29, 2018. The Departments of Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Labor (collectively, the “Departments”) jointly announced proposed HRA regulations, effective for…
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Posted by:
Susan E. Ziel and Robert A. Anderson
on November 18, 2018
HIPAA, as amended by HITECH, imposes significant requirements on those persons or entities who constitute a business associate as a result of their access to protected health information in the performance of services on behalf of a covered entity.[1] For example, a business associate could be a…
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Posted by:
Meghan M. Linvill McNab and Amanda K. Schipp
on November 18, 2018
On November 8, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") published a proposed rule aimed at Medicaid managed care. CMS indicated its intentions to streamline the managed care framework and relieve regulatory burdens created in the existing managed care regulations, which were…
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Posted by:
Thomas N. Hutchinson
on October 28, 2018
Governor Eric Holcomb signed Senate Enrolled Act 221 (“SEA 221”) into law on March 22, 2018, which updated INSPECT requirements for practitioners with a controlled substance registration (“CSR”) in Indiana. Notably, several of the bill’s requirements are effective January 1, 2019. Under SEA 221, all…
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Posted by:
Stephanie T. Eckerle and Stacy Walton Long
on October 25, 2018
An ABC television crew was permitted to film on the premises of three Boston-area teaching hospitals, Boston Medical Center (“BMC”), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (“BWH”), and Massachusetts General Hospital (“MGH”). However, the three healthcare providers failed to first obtain patient…
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Posted by:
Stephanie T. Eckerle and Susan E. Ziel
on October 8, 2018
On September 17, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services "CMS" published a proposed rule to reduce burdensome regulations affecting healthcare providers as part of its "Patients Over Paperwork" initiative which began in 2017. More information about the Patients Over Paperwork…
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Posted by:
Brandon W. Shirley and Amanda K. Schipp
on October 7, 2018
On October 4, 2018, the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration published a proposed rule (“LSA #18-251”) that overhauls its Medicaid program integrity requirements. LSA #18-251 revises, clarifies, and adds new provisions affecting nearly all business aspects for Indiana Medicaid…
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Posted by:
Libby Yin Goodknight and Brandon W. Shirley
on September 18, 2018
On July 10, 2018, President Trump signed an Executive Order (“EO”) that altered the manner in which Federal Administrative Law Judges (“ALJ”) are selected for service from competitive examination and competitive service selection procedures to agency appointments. The changes in the EO were…
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Posted by:
Thomas N. Hutchinson
on September 18, 2018
On August 7, 2018, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion No. 18-08, which evaluated a proposal by six government-operated fire departments (the “Departments”) to enter into a mutual aid agreement to provide unscheduled, backup emergency ambulance services (“Backup Services”)…
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Posted by:
Thomas N. Hutchinson and Meghan M. Linvill McNab
on August 22, 2018
As reported in CMS’s MLNConnects (click here for release), CMS recently proposed significant regulatory changes that would reduce the burden of Medicare paperwork and thereby increase the amount of time that physicians and other clinicians can spend with their patients. The proposed rules are…
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