Dec 30, 2011 | Health Care Law
As many of you know, and claims that “The New Health Age offers a succinct primer on how we got here and where we should be taking the health of our nation.” Our publisher plans to release the ebook version by Thanksgiving and the print edition by Christmas. Rest...
Oct 28, 2011 | Health Care Law
On Thursday, October 20, 2011, the United States Department of Health and Human Services released its final regulations for accountable care organizations (“ACOs”). As you may recall, the primary goals of ACOs are to realize cost savings and improve quality of care by...
Oct 10, 2011 | Health Care Law
Florida’s new controlled substance prescription drug law went into effect in July. Among other things, the new law requires that any physician who prescribes controlled substance medications to a patient for chronic nonmalignant pain must designate himself or herself...
Sep 19, 2011 | Health Care Law
Author’s Note – Jonathan Fleece Almost overnight, everything changed. I have practiced health care law since 1997, representing health care professionals and institutions of all sorts – including many physicians. In 2009, my law practice transformed itself. Barack...
Sep 13, 2011 | Health Care Law
Legal Battles Continue – A federal appellate court in Richmond, Va., on Thursday threw out a pair of cases challenging the constitutionality of President Obama’s 2010 health care law. Two of the three judges on the panel volunteered that they would have upheld...
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...
