Aug 30, 2011 | Health Care Law
Payment Changes A major component of health care reform will be changes to the provider reimbursement and payment system. The goals are to 1) increase the quality of health care and 2) reduce cost (Yes, the two can go together). Below are a few developments in this...
Aug 22, 2011 | Health Care Law
Health Care Reform is THE 2011 TOPIC of debate, confusion, and misinformation amongst many health care providers, physicians, businesses, and citizens. As the co-author of a book related to the future of health care titled “The New Health Age: The Future of Health...
Jun 30, 2011 | Health Care Law
Have you ever felt “compelled” to do something? That compulsion, that need, that force, was never more intense for me than it was throughout 2010 following the enactment of one of America’s most influential laws in decades – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care...
Apr 27, 2011 | Health Care Law
Any ACO qualified by CMS for participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program will be judged under the “rule of reason,” which is a higher threshold for a finding of illegal restraints on trade and should provide more flexibility in devising ACO structures. For...
Jul 17, 2010 | Health Care Law
Florida’s Patient Self Referral Act (“Self Referral Act”), like the Federal Stark law, prohibits physicians from referring patients to entities in which they have a financial interest. Both Stark and the Self Referral Act, however, provide an exception when the...
Jul 2, 2010 | Health Care Law
How to respond and prepare for health care reform, insurance company consolidation, emerging international market for high-end medical procedures, health care cost increases, and many other threats which question the future of our health care delivery systems. Amidst...
