Maryland Legal Alert - April 2016

In This Issue: MARIJUANA BUSINESS CANNOT BE BANKRUPTCY DEBTOR DATA-SECURITY PRACTICES FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Fiduciary Concerns When Your Advisor is a Robot/Computer Program

John Paliga was a panelist at the ABA JCEB Government Invitational.

Update to the Medicare Shared Savings Program

Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP).

The Rest of the Story: Federal Judicial Review of State Health Agencies

Previous articles in TOPICS identified a trend in recent decisions of federal courts with jurisdiction over Maryland to label the "anti-competitive" actions of state health care regulators as poten

New Stark and Incident to Rules

A version of this article was published in The Daily Record on September 13, 2016.

New Compensation Reporting Requirements

On January 29, 2016, President Obama announced a new initiative to collect compensation data from all employers with 100 or more employees. A. Background

Maryland Regulatory News - Spring 2016

1. The Heroin and Opioid Emergency Task Force, led by Lieutenant Governor Boyd K. Rutherford, has produced 33 recommendations in its Final Report that was published December 1, 2015.

Did You Know? - Spring 2016

Loss of Board Certification: Did you know that the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) did not violate a doctor's rights when it rescinded his certification due to a monitoring agreement? Dr.

C Corp Reasonable Compensation

A version of this article was published in The Daily Record on November 15, 2016.

TREASURY TREMORS: The Ground is Shifting with Respect to the Allocation of Partnership Liabilities to Partners

On January 29, 2014, the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations under Internal Revenue Code Section 752, which, if adopted as proposed, would significantly alter the manner in which partne