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Tag Archives: HHS
Mount Sinai Affiliated Hospitals to Pay $3 Million Settlement for Delaying Medicaid Overpayments
By: Fred Segal On August 24, 2016, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced that it settled a whistleblower … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance, Fred Segal, Regulatory
Tagged 60-Day Rule, Broad and Cassel, CMS, compliance, health law, Health Law Practice Group, HHS, Medicaid, New York, Obamacare, OIG, PPACA, regulatory, Whistleblower
Disclosing Patient Substance Abuse Information, It’s Complicated!
By: Heather Miller On February 5, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) proposed changes to the Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records regulations (42 CFR Part 2) “to facilitate information exchange within new health care models … Continue reading
6 ways health care providers can reduce fraud, waste and abuse risks in 2016
By: Michael Bittman Health care providers such as hospitals and doctors face a variety of legal risks: malpractice, tax, and fraud, waste and abuse. Recent cases have shown that fraud, waste and abuse exposure can dwarf the risk of malpractice … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance, Fraud/Abuse, Mike Bittman
Tagged CMS, compliance, fraud, fraud and abuse, Health Law Practice Group, HHS, liability, malpractice, Medicaid, Medicare, OIG, providers, tax liability, TRICARE, waste
Are you Ready for a HIPAA Investigation?
By: Vanessa A. Reynolds Scarcely a week goes by without a media report of a HIPAA breach – or a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) press release announcing a settlement agreement with an organization that suffered a breach. … Continue reading
Posted in HIPAA-HITECH, Vanessa Reynolds
Tagged Broad and Cassel, compliance, Department of Health and Human Services, Florida healthcare, health care, health law, HHS, HHS Office of Civil Rights, HIPAA, HIPAA Breach, HIPAA compliance program, HIPAA enforcement, HIPAA investigation, OCR, PHI, violation
OIG Issues Special Fraud Alert Focusing on Laboratory Payments to Referring Physicians
By: Stephen H. Siegel, Esq. On June 25, 2014, the HHS- Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued its “Special Fraud Alert: Laboratory Payments to Referring Physicians.” The OIG focused on blood-specimen collection, processing, and packaging arrangements, as well as so-called … Continue reading
Posted in Fraud/Abuse, Stephen Siegel
Tagged Broad and Cassel, Florida health law, Florida Patient Brokering Act, fraud, fraud and abuse, health care industry, health law, Health Law Practice Group, healthcare, HHS, Kickback Prohibition, laboratory payments, Medicaid, Medicare, Office of Inspector General, OIG, physicians, referring physicians, special fraud alert, Stark Law
Stolen laptops mean $2M in mega fines
Unencrypted laptops and mobile devices pose significant risks to the security of patient information, according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights. Please click here to read more.
Clearing the Clutter: Wading Through Health Care
Please click here to see Christine Burke Worthen’s recent article in i4 Business magazine, where she provides a list of resources for professionals to stay abreast of health care reform.
Posted in Reform
Tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, Broad and Cassel, FLOIR, Florida Department of Financial Services, Florida health law, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, government, health care reform, health care reform resources, health law, Health Law Practice Group, health reform, HHS, Obama administration, PPACA
Christine Burke Worthen Recently Published by ABA
Christine Burke Worthen, Of Counsel in our Fort Lauderdale office, was recently published by the American Bar Association’s Health Law Section. Please click here to read her article titled “Nonprofit Hospital Executive Pay: Revisiting ‘Reasonable Compensation’ in Light of the … Continue reading
Some States See Surprisingly Good Enrollment in the Obamacare Healthcare Exchange Plans
By: Fred Segal The consensus opinion by just about every expert, journalist, and even the White House itself, is that the Government did a poor job in its execution of rollout of the Healthcare Exchanges under the Patient Protection and … Continue reading
Posted in Fred Segal, Reform
Tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, Broad and Cassel, health care, health law, Health Law Practice Group, Healthcare Exchanges, healthcare reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA, reform, regulatory, rollout
ACOs, HIPAA-HITECH and OHCAs
By: Stephen Siegel An ACO might be a HIPAA Covered Entity, a Business Associate, or both. Unlike the waivers to the Federal health care programs’ Kickback Prohibition and the so-called Stark Law for arrangements that further the MSSP’s “triple aim”, … Continue reading
Posted in ACO, Regulatory, Stephen Siegel
Tagged ACO, ACOs, Broad and Cassel, Business Associate, CMS, covered entity, Florida health law, health care, health care industry, health law, Health Law Practice Group, healthcare, HHS, HHS Office of Civil Rights, HIPAA, HIPAA-HITECH, HITECH, kickback, OHCA, OIG, organized health care arrangement, PHI, regulations, regulatory, Stark Law
