Health Law Observer
Timely insights and legal commentary on various health care issues and developments surrounding regulations, employment, transactions and a range of key industry matters. This blog is maintained by the Health Care Department of Stevens & Lee.
This piece of legislation will extend additional assistance and protections to individuals and businesses affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
Prior to the issuance of this Bulletin, only Medicaid-enrolled psychiatrists and licensed psychologists in the Behavioral Health HealthChoices Program were covered to use telehealth technology to provide behavioral health services.
Enhanced enforcement is the agency’s next step in the previously announced five-part initiative to improve nursing home quality and safety standards.
There are various, often incompatible, models from which to choose, and competing incentives that pull you, as the decision-maker, in different directions.
HIPAA covered entities and business associates that fulfill release of information requests on behalf of covered entities should review their current policies and procedures.
There actually is a Stark exception for ownership arrangements that may be applicable in certain locations around the country.
Once finalized, after the thirty (30) day comment period, the Vertical Merger Guidelines will provide greater clarity and transparency on how the DOJ and FTC analyze vertical merger transactions.
The rule revises its previous test for determining when more than one employer bears joint blame for pay and other legal violations.
While the Delanoy opinion provides some guidance to employers it leaves other questions unanswered.
The legislation would incentivize private individuals with knowledge of Medical Assistance fraud, waste, and abuse to come forward as whistleblowers and bring lawsuits on the Commonwealth’s behalf.
The Act requires facilities that perform diagnostic imaging services to provide written notice to the patient or the patient’s designee if the facility determines that a “significant abnormality” may exist.
In this post are eight common issues that you should consider addressing in advance of engaging a broker, soliciting bids or otherwise negotiating or pursuing a sale transaction.
Under state law, even a self-declared “nonbinding” preliminary agreement may be deemed binding and obligate the parties to consummate the transaction contemplated by the preliminary agreement.
The memo signals, as expected, that we will likely see HHS and CMS engage in more formal notice-and-comment rulemaking.
These tips will help you avoid some of the issues that we frequently see when reviewing leases as part of due diligence in health care transactions.
The home health industry is bracing for impact as one of the most significant changes to home health agency operations since the late 1990s is set to go into effect on or about January 1, 2020.
The Affordable Care Act not only continues for now, but shows signs of strengthening in some of its components.
Pennsylvania might just be working toward more flexibility in its licensing of micro-hospitals, albeit CMS rules and requirements will still apply.
On October 9, 2019, two agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services each released a set of wide-ranging and significant proposed rules.
The proposed rules follow HHS’ solicitation of information via two separate notices requesting information on potential modifications to the Stark Law exceptions to promote value-based care and reduce regulatory burdens in June 2018 and potential changes to the
A U.S. District Court vacated the portions of CMS’s Final Rule that reduced the payment rate for hospital clinic visits provided at grandfathered off-campus provider-based departments to equal the rate for similar services provided in physician office settings.