Health Law & Managed Care

Healthcare is an area of law that is constantly evolving, with the Affordable Care Act provisions still rippling through the industry, and privacy and data protection concerns requiring constant vigilance, the National Law Review covers the latest developments in the Health Care Industry. The National Law Review offers analysis of news coming out of Congress related to health care legislation, as well as covering state and local laws related to health care.

Readers will also find an extensive list of cases, news, and up-to-date information on various topics in the healthcare and managed care sector. Litigation, regulatory actions being taken against doctors or pharmacies, mediation and arbitration, and coverage of the latest in drug pricing, the opioid epidemic, employer-healthcare coverage options, and legal news about health and hospital systems and physician groups.

The National Law Review covers news related to Medicare and Medicaid, to CMS funding, changes to IPAs, PHO, HMO, MSO, and other entities. Readers will find information related to managed care, assisted living facilities, at-home care, and news/legislation from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the Office of the Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). Additionally, regulations and updates released by the FDA are covered, as well as changing state and federal regulations related to telehealth and telemedicine are also on the site.

Cybersecurity in health care and compliance with HIPAA are major concerns for the industry. Additionally, Ransomware developments and other data security breaches have required a greater emphasis on safeguarding patient-records and information. More compliance and restrictions are in place for doctors/hospitals sharing patient records, HIPPA regulations have become more stringent, and e-health records, have seen a number of changes in how hospitals and doctors’ offices, deal with patient-record management internally. The National Law Review offers expert legal analysis on changing regulations related to healthcare.

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Oct 15 2015	Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS): Fad Allergy, Debilitating Disease, or What?	ArentFox Schiff LLP
Oct 15 2015	HHS Releases Far-Reaching Proposed Rule to Prohibit Discrimination by “Covered Entities” Pursuant to Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act	Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Oct 14 2015	CMS Releases RFA for First Value-Based Payment Initiative for Managed Medicare	Faegre Drinker
Oct 14 2015	Reminder to Health Care Providers: You Have a Duty to Accommodate HIV-positive Patients	Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
Oct 13 2015	Merck and Generics UK challenge the Commission’s ‘by object’ analysis in Lundbeck	Covington & Burling LLP
Oct 12 2015	Next Rx: New Medicare Part D Initiative Advances Role of Medication Management in Reform	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct 12 2015	ACA Reporting and Governmental Health Plans	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Oct 12 2015	Employee Who Threatened to Shoot His Colleagues with a Shotgun Not a “Qualified Individual” For the Purposes of Oregon’s Disability Statute, Says Ninth Circuit	Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Oct 12 2015	Navigating Diagnostic Commercialization Process	Foley & Lardner LLP
Oct 12 2015	Accommodation of Mental Impairments Under ADA	Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Oct 10 2015	Health Care Facilities' Waste Management Practices Subject to Big Changes Under Proposed Rule	Holland & Hart LLP
Oct 9 2015	Pharmaceutical Distributer PharMerica to Pay $9.25 Million to Settle False Claims Act Case Alleging Kickback Scheme	Tycko & Zavareei LLP
Oct 9 2015	Structuring Health Care Transactions to Ensure Compliance While Meeting Business Goals [VIDEO]	Foley & Lardner LLP
Oct 9 2015	Idaho Whistleblower Awarded Over $100K in Punitives After Retaliatory Discharge	Holland & Hart LLP
Oct 9 2015	HHS Launches Portal Seeking Questions from Mobile Health Application Developers	Covington & Burling LLP
Oct 8 2015	Medical Cannabis in Illinois: What Health Care Providers and Organizations Need to Know	Much Shelist, P.C.
Oct 8 2015	Supreme Court Denies Cert on Whether Government Investigations Are a Public Disclosure	McDermott Will & Emery
Oct 8 2015	Health Care Qui Tam Update: Recently Unsealed Whistleblower Cases	Mintz
Oct 8 2015	Physiology/Medicine Nobels Awarded for Discoveries of “Natural Products”	Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
Oct 8 2015	New CMS Proposed Rule Provides Who/What/When for Clinical Laboratory Reporting Requirements Starting January 1, 2016	Dickinson Wright PLLC
Oct 8 2015	Proposed 340B Guidance: Who is the Biggest Loser?	Mintz
Oct 8 2015	Utah Healthcare and Legislative Update: October 2015	Holland & Hart LLP
Oct 8 2015	September 21, 2015 New Jersey Healthcare Regulatory Developments	Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Oct 7 2015	Your Health in the Cloud	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Oct 7 2015	EEOC Proposed Rule on Application of the ADA to Employer Wellness Programs	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Oct 7 2015	Fourth Circuit First to Examine Providers’ Billing Claims in False Claims Act Liability	Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Oct 6 2015	Arkansas Medical Board Proposes to Relax State Telemedicine Laws	Mintz
Oct 6 2015	Fourth Circuit to Rule on Use of Statistical Sampling to Prove FCA Liability	McDermott Will & Emery
Oct 5 2015	Health Care Reform: Employer Reporting and Other Upcoming Key Dates	Vedder Price
Oct 5 2015	Affordable Care Act’s Reporting Requirements for Carriers and Employers (Part 12 of 24): Deconstructing Form 1095-C, Parts II and III	Mintz
Oct 5 2015	New Opportunity to Comment on Key Components of Medicare Physician Payment Reform: CMS Issues 30-Day Request for Information on MIPS and APMs	Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Oct 5 2015	Nearly 40 Percent of Mandatory Reports to OSHA Lead to Inspection	Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Oct 5 2015	Health-Focused Reconciliation Recommendations Clear Three Committees; CMS Requests Input on MIPS Implementation	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Oct 5 2015	What’s Next: The Future of False Claims Act Litigation After KBR v. U.S. ex rel. Carter	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct 4 2015	The Ninth Circuit Overrules Decades of Precedent To Make It Easier For Relators To Qualify As An “Original Source”	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct 3 2015	Kane et al., v. Healthfirst, Inc., et al. Is There Now a Judicially Created Return of Over-Payment Safe Harbor?	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct 2 2015	How Long Do I Have to File a Claim for a Work Related Injury?	Stark & Stark
Oct 2 2015	OIG Calls for CMS to Reform Payment for Skilled Nursing Facility Services	McDermott Will & Emery
Oct 2 2015	Arbitration of Nursing Home Suits: Take Two	Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Oct 2 2015	Inspections are Not All Equal: OSHA Develops Tiered Inspection System	Jackson Lewis P.C.
Oct 1 2015	Happy ICD-10 Day! re: Medical Coding	Dickinson Wright PLLC
Oct 1 2015	Just in Time for the Phase II Audits: OIG Criticizes OCR’s Enforcement Efforts	Mintz
Oct 1 2015	CMS Progress Note Template for Home Health Patients: Comments due by October 13	Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Oct 1 2015	Illinois Court Extends Affidavit and Health-Professional’s Report Requirements to Medical Battery Claims	Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C.
Oct 1 2015	Signed “Consent for Treatment” Forms Successful in the Defense of Hospital Vicarious Liability Claims	Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C.
Sep 30 2015	Highlights From the 10th CEO/Innovators Roundtable	Foley & Lardner LLP
Sep 30 2015	Further Guidance on the Affordable Care Act’s Cadillac Tax	McDermott Will & Emery
Sep 29 2015	HIPAA and Records of Deceased Persons	Holland & Hart LLP
Sep 29 2015	Very Hard Facts: 2015 Reporting Requirements Under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”)	Jackson Lewis P.C.
Sep 29 2015	Illinois Appellate Court Reinforces that Physician Contracts Help Protect Against Vicarious Liability Claims	Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C.

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