Protect PHI or Else

In December of 2005, four backup tapes and two optical disks containing electronic protected health information (PHI) were stolen from the car of an employee of Providence Health & Services, a

Maryland Regulatory News Winter 2008

Maryland Regulatory News

Seventeen Gordon Feinblatt Lawyers Named to Best Lawyers in America 2009

Gordon Feinblatt, LLC is pleased to announce that 17 of its lawyers have been selected for the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The attorneys named are:

Department of Labor Publishes Final Amendments To FMLA Regulations

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued final regulations amending the rules governing FMLA.

Terminally Ill, Who Says?

Nevada’s Uniform Act on rights of the terminally ill sets forth the mechanisms by which terminally ill Nevada patients or their families can implement their wishes regarding the withholding or with

Play or Pay, Dead or Alive?

San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance requires medium and large employers doing business in San Francisco to “play or pay.” More specifically, those employers must spend a minimum amount o

Did You Know? Winter 2008

HIPAA Privacy Guidance: Did you know that the Office of Civil Rights recently posted a patients' guide and a provider’s guide to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability

Board of Physicians Disregards Malpractice Verdict

Maryland’s intermediate appellate court recently ruled, in Pickert v.

A Liberal AMC Stark Exception

A federal trial judge in Kentucky recently dismissed a federal False Claims Act (FCA) action arising out of alleged violations of the Stark law.

$1.12 Billion in Fraud Recoveries

The Department of Justice (DOJ) reported $1.12 billion in fraud and false claims recoveries during the last fiscal year, which ended September 30, 2008.
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