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[Event] 2025 Health Law Seminar - July 24th, Minneapolis, MN

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Join us for our annual Health Law Seminar taking place on Thursday, July 24. We’ll dig into the latest legal and business issues shaping the health care industry. Our attorneys and guest speakers, including a former Office...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - October 2024 #1

News Briefs - Study Says Telemedicine Improved Quality of Doctors' Patient Care - Telemedicine helped improve the quality of doctors' patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic and has the potential for improving physician...more

Holland & Hart LLP

FMV for Provider Contracts: Regulatory Standards

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As a general rule, healthcare employers are required to pay employed physicians and other contracted providers fair market value (FMV) for their services, but many employers do not understand relevant regulatory standards. ...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

OIG Issues Favorable Opinion Regarding Physician Group’s Proposal to Pay Bonuses to its Employed Physicians Based on Net Profits

On October 13, 2023, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 23-07 (Advisory Opinion), in which the OIG issued a favorable opinion regarding a physician group employer’s proposal to pay bonuses to its...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week in Review: PAHPA Reauthorization Bills Receive House and Senate Markups

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

J.S. Held

AHLA Takeaway: Healthcare Executives, Is Your House In Order?

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Walking away from the American Health Law Association’s annual conference, I’m feeling energized from (re)connecting with friends and colleagues, inspired by the complex and transformational work being done throughout the...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Good News for Hospitals and Providers Seeking to Assist Patients

Hospital systems and other health care providers often desire to assist their patients who are burdened with bills that the patients cannot pay or to alleviate other access challenges. In the past few months, the Department...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

AdvaMed Updates Code to Provide Guidance on Innovative Arrangements, Medical Technology, Interactions with HCPs

The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) announced its revised Code of Ethics on Interactions with Health Care Professionals (2022 Code) on March 18, 2022. Notable updates to the 2022 Code provide guidance on...more

King & Spalding

AdvaMed Updates Code of Ethics on Interactions with HCPs: What’s the Impact on MedTech?

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On March 18, 2022, the Advanced Medical Technology Association (“AdvaMed”) announced revisions to its Code of Ethics on Interactions with Health Care Professionals (“Code”). The revised Code will take effect June 1, 2022. ...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

COVID-19 Hasn't Interrupted Everything: Certain Hospice Audit Activity Continues Despite Public Health Emergency

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COVID-19 threw a wrench into certain hospice audit activity, but the machine rumbles on. In today’s podcast episode, Husch Blackwell's Meg Pekarske, Erin Burns and Bryan Nowicki discuss the current state of hospice audits,...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

OIG Details Hospice Quality of Care Issues and Recommends Tougher Enforcement Measures

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued two companion reports that, together, called for increased regulatory scrutiny of hospices, greater transparency...more

Baker Donelson

OIG's List of Excluded Individuals/Entities – What Employers Need to Know

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OIG maintains a list of all currently excluded individuals and entities called the "List of Excluded Individuals/Entities," or LEIE. Covered entities that hire – or continue to employ or work with – an individual or entity on...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Revised AdvaMed Code Reflects an Evolving Industry

In its first update in a decade and effective January 1, 2020, the revised Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) Code of Ethics in Interactions with Health Care Professionals (Code) in the United States contains...more

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Recent OIG Audits of Home Health and Hospice Surveys May Signal Increased Scrutiny on Worker Qualifications

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Recent audits by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) conclude that state survey agencies in a number of states and a leading national accrediting agency serving the home health and...more

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