Mar 31, 2021 Joe Willey Discusses the Highlights of Katten’s Health Care Litigation, Reimbursement and Regulation Practice By Katten Tracking the multitude of laws that govern the health care field can overwhelm any hospital system or other provider. As a former...
Mar 28, 2021 The Office for Civil Rights Continues Enforcement of Its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative By Katten On March 26, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its eighteenth settlement with...
Mar 27, 2021 Provider Safety in the Time of COVID By Kenya Scott Woodruff The staffing challenges caused by COVID have fueled continued efforts to find ways to provide patient care without risking exposure. ...
Mar 26, 2021 DOJ Taking Action Against COVID-19 Fraud By Katten Events DOJ issued a press release regarding its efforts to combat COVID-19 related fraud schemes, specifically those related to PPP loans....
Mar 26, 2021 Hospitals Still Enduring Significant Strain Due to COVID-19 By Katten Findings from an OIG survey of hospital administrators across 45 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico found ongoing...
Mar 24, 2021 Target Rich Environment - Healthcare Breaches Reaching New Heights By Ramana Rameswaran With healthcare records in the dark web being sold for $150 a record and stolen credit card numbers only going for a few dollars, it...
Mar 22, 2021 More COVID Testing to Help School Testing By Katten The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be investing $10 billion to bolster COVID screening testing in schools and...
Mar 17, 2021 Not So Transparent By Katten A new study finds that most hospitals are not complying with the new price transparency rule. Despite the rule going into effect on...
Mar 16, 2021 Medicare COVID-19 Vaccine Payment Increase By Kenya Scott Woodruff Medicare increasing the reimbursement rate will encourage more innovative delivery methods for the provision of COVID-19 vaccinations to...
Mar 16, 2021 HHS Expands the Types of Providers That Can Vaccinate By Ramana Rameswaran HHS amended the PREP Act Declaration for the 7th time on March 11, 2021, to boost the number of COVID-19 vaccinators. Through the...
Mar 13, 2021 Extension of Comment Period for Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule By Katten If you didn't get an opportunity to provide comments on the proposed modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, you still have time. The...
Mar 12, 2021 No Poach Agreement Attacked in New Class Action By Laura Keidan Martin The latest "anti-poaching" antitrust case - a class action filed in Illinois against Surgical Care Affiliates ("SCA") and United Surgical...
Mar 10, 2021 45-Day Extension to Comment on Proposed HIPAA Rules By Ramana Rameswaran It would be hard to find a person living in the United States that hasn't signed a HIPAA Authorization Form in their lifetime. As...
Mar 10, 2021 Sutter Health Settlement Preliminarily Approved By Laura Keidan Martin Interesting resolution of a complicated case at the intersection of antitrust, workers' rights and now diversity initiatives. Large...
Mar 08, 2021 OIG Monitoring Telehealth Fraud and Abuse By Ramana Rameswaran Principal Deputy Inspector General Grimm discussed the fact that the Office of Inspector General of HHS is conducting "significant...
Mar 03, 2021 Updated Telehealth Services Reimbursable by Medicare By Katten On February 26, 2021, CMS updated the list of telehealth services that are payable under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. This list...