The Connecticut Supreme Court issued an interesting decision in the case of Harris v. Bradley Memorial Hospital & Health Center Inc. in May of 2010, which was precipitated by the summary suspension of Dr. Harris. Not only did it overturn the trial court’s grant of judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of the hospital, after…

 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has instructed its contractors to hold claims containing services paid under the Medicare physician fee schedule for the first 10 business days of June.

Congressional leaders are trying to avert a 21 percent payment cut scheduled to take effect June 1 under the current fee schedule.

The 10-day…

The AMA issued the following news release regarding the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate Medicare physician fee cuts scheduled to go into effect on JUne 1, 2010.

Congress failed to address this year’s Medicare physician payment cut before the June 1 deadline next week. Although the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation at the last minute to …

At the request of several Members of Congress, the Federal Trade Commission is further delaying enforcement of the “Red Flags” Rule through December 31, 2010, while Congress considers legislation that would affect the scope of entities covered by the Rule. Click here to read the announcement.

By Paul Welk

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to consider legislation to block the pending 21.2 percent cut to physician Medicare payments soon. The cuts will take effect June 1 unless final legislation is signed into law before then. The proposed bill, H.R. 4213, “The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010” also includes numerous other…

Two recent decisions emphasize the ongoing battle for discovery of peer review information in negligence cases, and confirm that confidentiality is alive and well, but no longer automatic. 

In Shell v. Sudan, the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska ordered that deposition questions regarding a hospital risk analysis tool were not…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") has issued draft guidance on HIPAA Security Standards as it pertains to risk analysis.  The aim is to assist organizations in identifying and implementing the most effective and appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to security electronic protected health information (also known as "ePHI").

While the draft…

Contributed by Jon Grossman & Jo-Anne Mineweaser

jgrossman@tuckerlaw.com / jmineweaser@tuckerlaw.com

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced the 2011 inflation adjusted amounts for health savings accounts (HSAs) in Revenue Procedure 2010-22.
 
Annual contribution limits for calendar year 2011 are unchanged from 2010 amounts:

  • Deductions for an individual with self-only coverage under a high deductible health plan:

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