Thanks to Claire Miley of Bass, Berry & Sims in Nashville, Tennessee for posting an alert regarding the final DMEPOS Surety Bond requirements. Below is the text of the American Health Lawyers Association e-mail alert.
CMS Issues Final Rule Requiring Surety Bonds for DMEPOS
On December 29, 2008, the Centers for Medicare & …
The Congressional Budget Office has prepared two remarkably thorough analyses regarding the fundamental issues confronting healthcare policy and the projected costs of more than 100 different reform proposals. Great summer vacation reading — if you start now, you might finish by summer vacation. Check the links below:
HIOs and Regional Health Information Networks (RHINs) are being created to facilitate the exchange of information among providers. HIOs and RHINs are typically not statutorily governed by HIPAA, other than perhaps as Business Associates. The HHS guidance, issued in conjunction with The Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information, covers …
OIG issues another in a string of gainsharing opinions involving hospitals and groups of cardiologists and radiologists. This and the solicitation by HHS of comments on shared savings exceptions and safe harbors confirm HHS’s intent to continue to encourage legitimate cost savings and incentive programs.
Link: http://www.oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/advisorgopinions/2008/AdvOpn08-21.2.pdf.
A Colorado state appeals court concluded breach of due process provisions of the Health Care Quality Immunity Act (HCQIA) precluded immunity for St. Mary’s Hospital and MedicalCenter, even though the medical staff bylaws might not have required notice and a fair hearing for revocation of provisional clinical privileges.
The hospital’s medical staff bylaws …
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma has required Ardent Health Services to produce unredacted documents relating to the files of identified peer review physicians who practiced at the hospitals in order to examine whether the plaintiff’s peer review situation was handled differently than other physicians within the hospital.
The Court …
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has submitted to the Federal Register an interim final rule that will streamline the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9) process…..
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On Saturday, December 6, 2008, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health published the allowable medical records fees under Pennsylvania Statute 42 P.A. C.S. §§ 6152-6155. Attached below is a link to the notice published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
Please be advised that effective January 12, 2009, elgibile citizens or nationals from ALL Visa Waiver Program Countries must obtain approval through ESTA (The Electronic System for Travel Authorization) prior to traveling to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program.
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The January 1, 2009 deadline for bringing health flexible spending accounts (“health FSAs”) into compliance with the IRS‘s new debit card rules has been extended to July 1, 2009.
In short, in 2007, the IRS issued guidance stating that, starting on January 1, 2009, participants could use health FSA …
