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
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.
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
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
A mortgage loan is covered by special Truth-in-Lending Act HOEPA requirements if the annual percentage rate on the loan at consummation will exceed by more than a "specified percentage" the yield o
A mortgage loan is covered by special Truth-in-Lending Act HOEPA requirements if the annual percentage rate on the loan at consummation will exceed by more than a "specified percentage" the yield o
A mortgage loan is covered by special Truth-in-Lending Act HOEPA requirements if the annual percentage rate on the loan at consummation will exceed by more than a "specified percentage" the yield o
Primary care physicians in Maryland, as well as in Washington D.C., may be selected by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to receive additional Medicare dollars under a new 5-year
Starting October 1, 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) will no longer reimburse hospitals for 11 conditions attributable to avoidable secondary conditions acquired by patients during
Repayment of Income Guarantee: Did you know that a federal judge preliminarily refused to enforce a physician income guarantee agreement because the hospital may have inaccurately
In September of 2007, the federal government filed a federal False Claims complaint (Complaint) against the former Corporate Integrity Program Director of Tenet Healthcare, Christi Sulzbach.
The Maryland General Assembly enacted a statute last November that included a provision that requires each corporation doing business in Maryland, which is a member of an affiliated group of
