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In 1984 and 1994, Congress amended the Bankruptcy Code to add protections for commercial real property and equipment lessors. Those provisions—sections 365(d)(3) and section 365(d)(5), respectively—generally require a...more
In the ever-evolving world of healthcare billing, two recent reported California appellate court decisions, Naranjo v. Doctors Medical Center of Modesto and Dameron Hospital Association v. Progressive Casualty Insurance...more
Overview - Most of you know that I am a big music fan. I have always liked Joe Cocker. The song The Letter is a song that was originally performed by The Box Tops and was a Number 1 hit in 1967. The song was covered by Joe...more
Government agency audits focused on Medicare, Medicaid, and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) compliance can result in substantial losses for pharmacies. Each pharmacy is audited the same way it is done with other similarly...more
Hospitals and other health care providers work hard to eliminate billing and coding errors, but mistakes still happen. When those mistakes occur, health plans sometimes try to capitalize on the error by using it as a basis to...more
Private professional fiduciaries in California are entitled to charge a reasonable fee for their services, but their fees for acting as conservators are subject to close court scrutiny. A recent California Court of Appeal...more
Attorney invoices may be protected in their entirety by the attorney-client privilege during ongoing litigation. After litigation has concluded, however, those same invoices may be discoverable. So concludes the California...more
In an important new decision, the California Court of Appeal held in County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors v. Superior Court (ACLU of Southern California) that attorney invoices are confidential in nature and are...more