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Dental/DSO Intelligence Monthly Report: July 2025

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As government scrutiny of the healthcare industry intensifies, enforcement agencies are casting wider nets to recover funds based on narrowly interpreted violations. This puts not only healthcare providers but also those...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

CMS Unveils New Prior Authorization “WISeR Model” for Electrical Nerve Stimulators, Skin and Tissue Substitutes and Knee...

CMS recently announced a new model it will be using to pilot the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in reviewing prior authorizations submitted for certain services CMS has identified as being at greater risk...more

Hall Benefits Law

How Plan Sponsors Can Mitigate Risk in PBM Contracts

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For employers offering benefit plans, fiduciary responsibility is not just a legal designation. Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, the fiduciary duty is the highest standard of care...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Risk Bearing Entity Requirements: Massachusetts

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This blog discusses the regulatory requirements that apply to risk-bearing entities in Massachusetts, including recent updates introduced by Chapter 343 of the Massachusetts Acts of 2024 (the Act). This blog is part of Foley...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Navigating Legal Strategies for Covering GLP-1s in Self-Insured Medical Plans — Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation...

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In this episode of Troutman Pepper Locke's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation podcast, hosts Lydia Parker and Lynne Wakefield explore the complex legal landscape surrounding the coverage of GLP-1s prescribed for...more

Stotler Hayes Group, LLC

Common Medicaid Application Mistakes: Errors to Avoid During the Application Process

The Medicaid application process can be complicated. However, there are several common mistakes made by filers that can make things even more difficult than they need to be, adding unnecessary obstacles. In this article, we...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Top Healthcare Compliance Priorities for 2025

Recently Protiviti released an intriguing report: Top Compliance Priorities for U.S. Healthcare Organizations in 2025. In this podcast their Global Healthcare Compliance Leader, Leyla Erkan, CHC, CHP, CHRC, shares some of the...more

Wiley Rein LLP

[Podcast] Contracting for Success: Key Legal Considerations When Segmenting Pharmacy Benefit Programs

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In this episode of The Wiley Contracting Chronicles, co-hosts Jordan Ross and Brooke DeLoatch take a deeper dive into program segmentation within pharmacy benefit programs. After outlining the concept in their previous...more

Mayer Brown

US NAIC Spring 2025 National Meeting Highlights: Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee

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On March 26, 2025, the Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee (“H Committee”) met at the Spring 2025 US National Meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”). The meeting covered...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

The Impact of Tariffs on the Insurance Industry

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At its core, insurance is an exercise of predictions. These predictions are supported by extraordinary amounts of data and complex algorithmic accounting, but much of the exercise for insurance carriers is trying to predict...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 16th Annual Advanced Forum on Managed Care Disputes and Litigation - May 1st - 2nd, Chicago, IL

Join the industry’s top litigators and leading plan counsel at ACI’s 16th Annual Advanced Forum on Managed Care Disputes and Litigation, for two days of discussions designed to address emerging areas of concern for MCOs in...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - March 2025

The March Monthly Minute brings you three recent case updates addressing 401(k) forfeiture utilization, TPA responsibility for recovering self-insured plan’s fraudulently paid claims, and continued PBM litigation in the wake...more

Wiley Rein LLP

[Podcast] Pharmacy Benefit Segmentation: Emerging Models for Health Plans

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In this episode of The Wiley Contracting Chronicles, hosts Jordan Ross and Brooke DeLoatch discuss the growing trend of pharmacy benefit segmentation among health plans. They outline three emerging models identified at Wiley:...more

Snell & Wilmer

Mental Health Parity Compliance: What Steps Should an Employer Take Next?

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The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”) and its implementing rules require group health plans to ensure that financial requirements (e.g., co-pays, deductibles, and coinsurance), quantitative treatment...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

Tobacco Surcharge Lawsuits: Considerations for Plan Sponsors

A growing number of class action lawsuits have been filed against employer-sponsored self-insured group health plans alleging that tobacco cessation wellness programs violate key provisions of the Employee Retirement Income...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Special Report - Examining Group Health Coverage Alternatives for Small Employers

Small employers seeking to offer robust major medical coverage to employees and their dependents face daunting price and transparency hurdles. Employers with 50 or fewer full-time equivalent employees, so-called “small...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Risk Bearing Entity Requirements: New Jersey and New York

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This blog reviews the regulatory requirements that apply to risk bearing entities (RBE) in New Jersey and New York. New Jersey and New York demonstrate distinct approaches to the registration and regulation of RBEs and...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

How PPM Health Plans Can Solve the MEWA Problem

While a physician practice management (PPM) structure allows for compliance with corporate practice of medicine laws and ease of administration, it often creates inadvertent health plan issues that should be navigated...more

Fennemore

Lessons Learned from ERISA Health Plan Representation and Recommendations for Plan Design and Oversight

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ERISA Health Plan clients are engaged in nearly every industry in the United States. There are nearly 139 million Americans covered by ERISA Health Plans and 2.5 million Health Plans. Yet, operating a health plan has become...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Special Report: Examining Group Health Coverage Alternatives for Small Employers

Small employers seeking to offer robust major medical coverage to employees and their dependents face daunting price and transparency hurdles. Employers with 50 or fewer full-time equivalent employees, so-called “small...more

Stotler Hayes Group, LLC

CMS Cracks Down on Responsible Party Liability in LTC Admission Agreements

A nursing facility that participates in the Medicaid or Medicare programs may not require a third party to guarantee payment for a resident’s admission or continued stay. However, facilities are allowed to require a resident...more

Kerr Russell

The Difference Between ‘Non-Covered’ vs. ‘Disallowed’ Services

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Question: I have had several colleagues describe their experience with dental plan audits. All of them have had to pay something back. Sometimes they say this is due to a service being deemed a “noncovered service.” Other...more

Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.

Navigating the Regulatory Complexities of an Evolving Health Care System with Kathleen Fisher Enyeart, Counsel at Lathrop GPM

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Kathleen Fisher Enyeart, Counsel at Lathrop GPM, to discuss the challenges of complying with health care regulations in a complex and rapidly changing industry....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

CMS Changes Medicare Advantage and Part D Plans’ Agent/Broker/TPMO Compensation Landscape

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In its November 2023 Proposed Rule and in its recently issued Final Rule that will be published in the Federal Register later this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) addressed concerns related to agent...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 2nd Annual Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Summit on Medicare Advantage - November 2nd - 3rd, Nashville, TN

Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 2nd Annual Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Summit on Medicare Advantage returns for another exciting year with curated programming that will address the latest oversight and...more

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