Apr 24, 2013 | Health Care Law
On April 17, 2013, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is charged with enforcing the federal health care program fraud and abuse laws, issued new, detailed guidance about the Provider Self-Disclosure...
Apr 1, 2013 | Health Care Law
On March 31, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the long-awaited proposed rules for accountable care organizations (ACOs). We will send more detailed analyses of the proposed rules soon (they run 429 pages!), but the highlights are as...
Jan 29, 2013 | Health Care Law
On January 1, 2013, Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act in an effort to avoid the automatic tax increases that would otherwise have gone into effect. In the main, the new law concerns taxes; however, a little-noticed provision in the law allows Medicare...
May 11, 2012 | Health Care Law
As many health care providers are aware, the health care reform law (the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” or “ACA”) signed into law in March 2010 contained, among its numerous provisions, a requirement that pharmaceutical, medical device, biological, and...
Sep 7, 2011 | Health Care Law
Did you know that virtually all Medicare-enrolled providers and suppliers will be required to re-enroll with Medicare in the next 18 months? A little-noticed provision in the recent health care reform law requires CMS to revalidate the enrollment information for all...
