Turning profits into loss? Why would I do that? No dealer is in business to lose money. But what if the types of products and services you sell lead to a situation where losses from one bad transaction wipe out […]
How do doctors know when Spring has arrived? When Congress passes a temporary patch to avoid the reimbursement cuts required by the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate reimbursement formula (“SGR”).
Enacted in 1997, SGR imposes Medicare reimbursement cuts for physicians and other […]
Health care professionals must exercise extreme caution when selecting and working with third party vendors because, as Stanford University Hospital & Clinics (SHC) recently learned, problems can arise when vendors fail to follow the law.
One of SHC’s vendors subcontracted out […]
The DOJ and HHS implemented the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) initiative in 2009 to combat healthcare fraud and abuse. HEAT has achieved many victories against healthcare providers and these three recent settlements illustrate that providers […]
Patient referrals by physicians are a common practice. They can benefit patients, but they can also constitute fraud and abuse when illegal financial arrangements are involved. And, as one healthcare practice recently learned, such financial arrangements can lead to multi-million […]
Most provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) were set to take effect on January 1, 2014. But due to push back, the federal government delayed key requirements:
Last summer the IRS announced that the “shared responsibility” requirements […]
Imagine this, your health care employee loses a flash drive containing protected health information. You immediately inform the affected patients and the media as required under the breach notification rules of HIPAA and HITECH.
You’re in the clear, right?
Perhaps not, as […]
Fritz Riesmeyer and Kendra Hanson co-authored an article for the ABA’s Business Torts Journal. The article, titled “Courses of Action after Allegations of Misconduct,” was published in the Winter 2014 volume.
Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/1czkrI0.