Lee Kim will be speaking at the Government Health IT Conference on June 11-12, 2013 in Washington, D.C. addressing changes due to the Omnibus Privacy Rule.  Privacy and security requirements for health data can be complex and intimidating. HIPAA and HITECH, and now the January 2013 release of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule have a very practical…

Lee Kim will be giving a webinar on negotiating electronic health record agreements on Thursday, June 20, 2013.

EHR’s are increasingly outsourced services provided by specialty vendors who can take advantage of economics of scale and concentrated expertise. But this means that mission-critical health care functions are more dependent on complex systems the provider does not…

Lee Kim will be presenting a webinar for HIMSS on May 22nd entitled, "Regulation and Innovation in mHealth: What You Need to Know to Successfully Play in the mHealth Space" as part of the HIMSS Virtual Forum on mHealth’s Impact: The Most Rapid Transformation in Healthcare Today.  A summary of the presentation can be

 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

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…

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.

The OIG has issued a Special Fraud Alert, dated March 26, 2013, describing specific attributes and practices of Physician Owned Distributorships (PODs) believed to produce substantial fraud and abuse risk and pose dangers to patient safety.

PODs are physician owned entities that derive revenue from selling or arranging for the sale of implantable medical…

The Society of General Internal Medicine convened the National Commission on Payment Reform to formulate a recommendation for healthcare payment reform. This Commission released its Report in March 2013. Although we have attached the report, here are the 12 fundamental recommendations.

1.         Over time, payers should largely eliminate stand-alone fee-for-service payment to medical practices because of …

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The White House released two documents on February 12th related to critical infrastructure protection and cybersecurity: the Presidential Policy Directive #21 on Critical Infrastructure and Resilience (PPD-21) which replaces the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-7) which previously served as the policy basis for the national critical infrastructure protection…

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