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AI in Healthcare: Enhancing Medical Care, but Complicating Medical Claims

Artificial intelligence is transforming the world around us, and the healthcare industry is no exception. As a result, health care entities are testing and implementing AI programs in an effort to improve patient care....more

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September 2025 CPT Editorial Panel meeting: what’s on the agenda and why it matters

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The American Medical Association (AMA) CPT®* Editorial Panel will convene in Chicago, Illinois, from September 18 to 20, 2025. The meeting agenda includes proposals to create new current procedural terminology (CPT) codes and...more

Morris James LLP

How to Ask the Right Questions During Medical Visits

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Medical visits can be overwhelming, especially when faced with complex diagnoses, unfamiliar medical jargon, or time constraints. However, being proactive during your appointment is critical to ensuring your health concerns...more

Napoli Shkolnik

Informed Consent Requires an Informed Patient

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Today’s medical systems move faster, operate at greater scale, and handle a wider volume and variety of ailments than ever before. Doctors have access to vast repositories of medical information and data, all of which are...more

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Medical Records in Court Proceedings: Key Details

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Cases that touch on medical conditions and injuries require proving causality and calculating degrees of responsibility and compensation, often amidst a convoluted mix of events, timelines, treatments, comorbidities, and...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Receive Specialized Care, Provide Specialized Testimony: New Jersey Court Says Medical Malpractice Expert Witness Must Have...

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To diminish the number of frivolous lawsuits that patients file against doctors and hospitals, 28 states require that a plaintiff submit an affidavit or certificate of merit when they file a medical malpractice case....more

Marshall Dennehey

Limiting the Opinions of Plaintiff’s Non-Retained Expert Witnesses Regarding Injury Causation and Permanency

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Key Points: Plaintiff’s non-retained experts are treating physicians, and their testimony at trial should be limited to their scope of treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis with respect to the injuries alleged....more

Kerr Russell

Consider These Five Compliance Questions In Your Medical Practice

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There are several risks which physicians may encounter if they fail to comply with applicable laws and regulations, including disciplinary action against their medical license, post-payment audit and recoupment,...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - November 2023 #1

News Briefs - Biden Executive Order Aims to Bolster AI Security in Healthcare - The Biden Administration issued what it's calling a "landmark" executive order designed to help channel the significant promise and manage the...more

Dickinson Wright

[Webinar] Health Care Data Privacy: When Nightmares Become Reality - November 9th, 2:00 pm EST

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Join us for an exciting online event, "Health Care Data Privacy: When Nightmares Become Reality." This one-hour live webinar is a must-attend for anyone in the health care industry responsible for safeguarding health...more

Hendershot Cowart P.C.

CMS, Qlarant Scrutinizing Medicare Claims for Skin Substitute Treatments

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Our firm is seeing an uptick in Medicare demand letters for the recovery of overpayment for skin substitutes, such as WoundFixTM, Biobrane, Dermagraft®, AmnioBand®, or AlloPatch®, used in the treatment of wounds. CMS auditors...more

Marshall Dennehey

The Credibility of Injured Workers and Experts Can Make or Break a Case

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Key Points: Choice of examining physician can make or break a case. The credibility of the petitioner should be assessed early in investigation. Thorough investigations should be completed in any disputed claims....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: April 2023

Personal information from federal lawmakers and congressional staff members was available on the dark web following a breach of DC Health Link, the health insurance marketplace for Washington, D.C. In an internal memo sent to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Enforcement actions relating to a lack of medical necessity

In a climate of shrinking margins, diminishing reimbursement, and frequent denials, healthcare organizations may make efforts to increase the volume of services they provide, especially those that are more profitable. Of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 10. Privacy Briefs: October 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 10 (October, 2022) - Thirty Democratic senators led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., have called on HHS to strengthen federal privacy protections under HIPAA to broadly restrict providers...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 9 (September, 2022) - More than 92% of patients believe privacy is a right and their health data should not be available for purchase, according to a survey from the American Medical...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

My Medical Practice Is Being Audited. Now What?

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Private and government payers are initiating more medical practice audits, and that trend is likely to continue. In order to successfully navigate the process, providers should prepare in advance to meet the audit challenge. ...more

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Medicare TPE Audits: 7 Common Questions Answered

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and its audit contractors have recently increased their use of Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) audits to target providers suspected of improperly billing Medicare. While...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 5. Privacy Briefs: May 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 5 (May, 2022) - A law firm in Evansville, Indiana, is considering pursuing claims involving a physician who spoke with women at a bar and then allegedly looked up their medical records, the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Webinar] The Current Status of the Information Blocking Rule - April 19th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CDT

Learning Objectives - This 90-minute webinar features the following topics: - Identify the elements of information blocking - Analyze Information Blocking Rule requirements on patient portals, APIs, and third party...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Medical Records Ownership and the Information Blocking Rules

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Patients may think they own their medical records. While patients certainly have the right to access and, in many cases, control how their health information is used and disclosed, medical records ownership can be murky....more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

OCR Speaks To HIPAA, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Privacy, And The Workplace

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When use or disclosure of an individual’s health information or medical records is at issue, the assumption seems to be, much more often than not, that the HIPAA privacy and security rules apply. This has certainly been the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21 no. 9 (September, 2021) - DuPage Medical Group in Chicago said that the personal information of more than 600,000 patients may have been compromised in a July cyberattack. The medical group,...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 7. Privacy Briefs: July 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 7 (July, 2021) - Mayo Clinic is facing three lawsuits from patients who say a former surgery resident, Ahmad Alsughayer, viewed hundreds of their nude photographs in electronic health...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

‘Do the Best’ But Mind the Myriad Laws: Grappling With COVID Vaccination Issues

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 6 (June 2021) - ...So begins the provocative lawsuit filed against Methodist Hospital System in Houston by 117 employees who do not want to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Despite the...more

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