On April 14, 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Health levied a $5.5 million surcharge for fiscal year 2013 on hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and birth centers for funding the MCare professional liability debts and expenses. Continue Reading PA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH LEVIES $5.5 MILLION MCARE SURCHARGE ON HOSPITALS AND ASCs
April 2013
Proposed Rules Relating to Donated EHR software and certain related items to services to physicians
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Posted in HIPAA, HIT, and EHR
CMS and the Office of Inspector General at HHS (OIG) have respectively published proposed rules to extend the sunset dates for the Stark exception and anti-kickback statute safe harbor permitting donations of EHR software and certain related items and services to physicians. These provisions are set to expire on December 31, 2013. Both agencies have proposed almost…
Safeguarding Your Data While Minimizing the Risk of Security Breaches
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Lee Kim, Tucker Arensberg attorney and Chair of the mHIMSS Legal/Policy Taskforce, will be a panelist at the American Conference Institute’s Legal and Business Guide to mHealth and Wireless Medical Technology in Washington, D.C. on April 30, 2013. Her panel will cover securing mobile devices, networks, data in the “cloud” and cybercrime.