The federal government/Trump administration announced today a delay regarding a proposed rule requiring hospitals to disclose actual negotiated price rates. See WSJ News.
In January, 2019, as reported in the MedLaw Blog on January 10, 2019, CMS added a rule requiring hospitals to publish their standard charges beginning January 2019.
As noted in
On October 23, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“HHS”) announced a $2,154,000 civil money penalty for numerous violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security and Breach Notification Rules between 2013 and 2016.
According to HHS, Jackson Health System (“JHS”) is a
HHS has long admitted that the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the Stark law have not evolved to keep pace with the transition to value based care. In June of 2018, HHS issued an RFI seeking additional information and HHS also issued a release on December 12, 2018 seeking input on improving care coordination and reducing
Click here to read Mike Cassidy’s article which was featured in the Legal Report section of the September 2019 edition of the Allegheny County Medical Society Bulletin.
Mike Cassidy has been honored as one of the Best Lawyers in America for the 11th consecutive year.
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, on remand from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, has again decided that the previously agreed termination date of the access provisions contained in the UPMC/Highmark Consent Decrees, i.e. June 30, 2019, is not a term subject to the modification provisions of those Consent Decrees, and is definite. The adjudication of the Commonwealth
This article by Mike Cassidy originally appeared in the Allegheny County Medical Society Bulletin June Edition. To read the article click here.
Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“HHS”) announced a $3,000,000 settlement for a disclosure of patient protected health information (“PHI”) via its FTP server.
In 2014, HHS received an email tip that the social security numbers of Touchstone Medical Imaging (“Touchstone”) patients were accessible online via an insecure
Tucker Arensberg, P.C. is pleased to announce that Michael A. Cassidy has been honored as one of only seven healthcare lawyers in the nation to be selected in 2019 as a Fellow of the American Health Lawyers Association (“AHLA”). Only a fraction of 1% of AHLA’s nearly 14,000 members are selected for fellowship annually. This
On April 4, 2019, CMS issued the final Medicare Advantage Rule for calendar year 2020, announcing it will allow Medicare Advantage carriers to significantly increase the range of telehealth services beyond traditional Medicare Part B covered services, stipulating only that, if a service is to be covered as a telehealth service, it must also be