Nov 16, 2023 New York Proposes New Cybersecurity Regulations for Hospitals By Trisha Sircar This week, New York regulators announced that they plan to release proposed cybersecurity regulations for hospitals. The impetus for the...
Nov 01, 2023 OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion for Certain Physician Employee Bonuses By Erica Youngerman On October 13, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) posted Advisory Opinion No....
Oct 17, 2023 CMS Settled a Record Number of SRDPs in 2022 By Daniel Walbright The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated the publicly available information regarding the Self-Referral...
Sep 26, 2023 OIG Advisory Opinion Touches on Commonly-Raised Concepts for Mitigating Anti-Kickback Statute Risk By Lisa Prather While the recent US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) Advisory Opinion 23-05 primarily focuses on...
Sep 22, 2023 Health Equity: An Important Pillar of ESG By Johnjerica Hodge India Williams Arron Pak In recent years, the federal government has placed a renewed emphasis on addressing structural, policy, and operational challenges and...
Sep 06, 2023 CMS Calls for Novel Federal Staffing Standards in Nursing Homes By Nikita Yogeshwarun The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposal on September 1 calling for the first national minimum staffing...
Aug 29, 2023 Over $1.8 Billion Saved in 2022 Medicare Shared Savings Program: What Does This Indicate About CMS's Recent 2024 MSSP Proposals? By Katy Pollitt The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced on August 24 that the Medicare Shared Savings Program (the MSSP) had the...
Aug 23, 2023 New Texas Medical Billing Requirements Can Leave Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Unable to Collect for Services Provided By Joe Lecroy Tracie Bedeaux Starting September 1, 2023, health care facilities in Texas will have to make changes to their billing practices to comply with a newly...
Aug 23, 2023 Illinois Appellate Court Certifies That Health Facilities Are Immunized From Certain COVID-19 Negligent Injury Claims During Pandemic By Michael Callahan During the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois Governor Pritzker issued an Executive Order, pursuant to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency...
Jul 14, 2023 CMS Initiative to Enhance Primary Care Services By Tracie Bedeaux On June 8, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new primary care model – the Making Care Primary (MCP) Model –...
Jun 05, 2023 New Medicare Coverage for Alzheimer's Disease Drugs By Cheryl Camin Murray Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Medicare will cover drugs that could slow the progression of...
May 31, 2023 Texas Hospital-at-Home Program Is Official & HHSC Again Extends Emergency Rule By Ramana Rameswaran Kenya Scott Woodruff Michelle Apodaca Joe Lecroy +1 more... Show less Recently we published a post, titled "Texas Legislature Provides Pathway for Continuation of Hospital-at-Home Program," which discussed...
May 19, 2023 Texas Legislature Provides Pathway for Continuation of Hospital-at-Home Program By Joe Lecroy Ramana Rameswaran Kenya Scott Woodruff Michelle Apodaca +1 more... Show less On May 16, 2023, the Texas legislature passed and sent to the Texas Governor House Bill 1890. If signed by the Governor, Texas would...
May 14, 2023 Florida Health Information Storage Changes Taking Effect on July 1, 2023 By Ramana Rameswaran Foreign Interests in the health care provider environment have generally meant ownership interests of persons from outside of the state...
May 11, 2023 The Waivers Era Is Over Now That the End of the Public Health Emergency Is Here By Sounia Senemar In a memorandum issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on May 1, 2023, CMS provided guidance to State Survey...
May 09, 2023 Q&A With Lisa Atlas Genecov: Partner and National Health Care Chair By Karolen Younan In March, a group of Katten attorneys attended the ABA Health Law Section’s Emerging Issues in Health Care conference in San Diego....