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All commercial website and online service providers need to comply with the requirements of the California Online Privacy Protection Act.  California recently issued guidance on how mobile application developers and others can comply with those requirements at the design stage in its guide entitled, "Privacy On the Go…

n November, 2012, the American Medical Association adopted new guiding principles for physicians entering into employment and contractual arrangements. According to one AMA Board Member, “The Principles for Physician Employment provide a broad framework to help guide physicians and their employers as they collaborate to provide safe, high quality, and cost-effective patient care.”…
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The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 includes the Physician Update Fix, which essentially provides a 0% Medicare change for 2013. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently revising the 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) to reflect the new law’s requirements as well as technical corrections identified since publication of the final…

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has issued its medical records fees for 2013.  The announcement is attached; it provides as follows:

                                                           

                                                                                               Not to Exceed

 

Amount charged per page for pages 1-20                                  $  1.42

 

Amount charged per page for pages 21-60                                $  1.05

 

Amount charged per …

The OIG recently issued an interesting advisory opinion related to a hospital based hospice agency’s intent to establish a volunteer program to provide non-skilled services to terminally ill patients who do not qualify for hospice care. Read the full text of the OIG opinion here: https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/advisoryopinions/2012/AdvOpn12-17.pdf…
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Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.

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The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has issued an advisory opinion regarding a hospital’s proposal to provide free acces to an electronic interface to community physicians and physician practices (who request it) so that the physicians and practices can transmit orders for…

Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.

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mHIMSS, the mobile initiative of HIMSS, has released the mHIMSS Roadmap to serve as guideance for  professionals, organizations, corporations and health systems on the adoption of mobile and mobile health devices.

Lee Kim, chair of the mHIMSS Legal/Policy taskforce, authored several sections of the legal & policy section of the…

Lee Kim, an intellectual property and healthcare technology attorney at Tucker Arensberg, PC, will be a panelist for a session entitled, "Policy & Regulatory Environments: A Mobile Perspective" at the international mHealth Summit which will be held in National Harbor, MD.  The 4th Annual mHealth Summit is the largest event of its kind and more…

OIG Advisory Opinion No. 12-15 has approved an existing arrangement under which a hospital pays physicians a per diem fee for providing on call ER coverage.

Under the arrangement, the hospital pays per diem fees to 130 specialty physicians on staff who provide on-call services, including:

·         telephone consultations;

·         in-person consultations, as…

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