Outpatient Do Not Resuscitate Orders: Did you know that Maryland health care providers, other than certified/licensed emergency medical (EMS) personnel, may now provide, withhold
Most private-sector employee benefit plans are required to file an annual Form 5500. The Department of Labor (DOL) may impose a penalty of $1,100 for each day a Form 5500 was not timely filed.
On February 2, 2000, the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) accepted and adopted the report of the HSCRC's Hospital Rate Redesign Work Group.
More and more doctors are supplementing their income by soliciting their patients to participate in clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.
Utilization Review as the Practice of Medicine: Did you know that Ohio's Attorney General recently opined that physicians making utilization review decisions for third-party payors
While Congress is wrangling over a federal Patients' Bill of Rights, it should be remembered that Maryland passed its own Patients' Bill of Rights Act in 1999.
Dually Eligible: Did you know that the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has upheld a lower court decision that validated the District of Columbia's practice of reimbur
Recent proposals by payors have caused Maryland's Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) to review, to revise, and to reissue its policy relating to Alternative Rate Methodologies (ARMs).
The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG), the agency charged with enforcing Medicare fraud and abuse prohibitions, has recently released its Work Plan fo
When the Medicare Program adopted the Prospective Payment System (PPS) in the mid-eighties, regulators were concerned that by paying hospitals a fixed amount per diagnosis, hospitals might be
1. In September at its final meeting, the Health Resources Planning Commission (HRPC) approved a new open heart surgery program for Sacred Heart Hospital in Western Maryland.
The Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland (MedChi), Maryland's largest medical society, recently issued a Report concerning restrictive covenant
Maryland's hospital rate-setting commission, the Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC), has traditionally allowed third-party payors to pay Maryland hospitals 4% less than the hospitals' a
Tax-exempt hospitals appear to be swinging back from the days of experimenting with for profit ventures that assumed managed care risk or operated physician practices.
