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Bruce D. Armon, Andrew J. Siegel; Saul Ewing LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 4, 2012, previously published on May 2012 Despite the recent debate in the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of the health care reform act, CMS published a final rule related to several provisions from the Affordable Care Act (the "Act").
|  | Federal Fraud and Abuse Recoveries Exceed $2 Billion in FY 2011; FY 2013 Budget Proposes Increased Spending To Prevent Fraud and Abuse
Bruce D. Armon; Saul Ewing LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 15, 2012, previously published on February 2012 Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) released its Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2011 (the "Report"). The release of the Report coincides with the introduction of President...
| | New Jersey Governor OK’s Phase out Of Cosmetic Procedures Tax; Pocket Vetoes Licensure of Surgical Practices
Bruce D. Armon, Karen L. Palestini; Saul Ewing LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 1, 2012, previously published on January 2012 Earlier this month, we profiled two New Jersey pieces of legislation — http://www.saul.com/ media/site&under;files/3036&under;Health011312&under;v2.pdf — that were awaiting the signature of Governor Christie before becoming law. One of the bills, S2780/A4099, which would have required...
| | Will ACOs Gain Traction In 2012? Take These Steps to Be Prepared
Bruce D. Armon, Karen L. Palestini, Andrew J. Siegel; Saul Ewing LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 17, 2012, previously published on January 2012 In December 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Systems (CMS) announced it had selected 32 health care systems to participate in its Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) initiative. The Pioneer program is an initiative designed by the CMS Innovation Center to test the effectiveness...
| | Two Bills on NJ Governor’s Desk Create Opportunities and Challenges for Medical Practices
Bruce D. Armon, Karen L. Palestini; Saul Ewing LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 17, 2012, previously published on January 2012 In its final voting session of the 2010-2011 term, the 214th New Jersey Legislature approved two bills that, if signed by Governor Christie, would phase out the current six percent gross receipts tax on cosmetic medical procedures (S1988/A3646), and would require all surgical practices to be...
| | HHS Announces HIPAA Privacy and Security Audits
Bruce D. Armon, Dan S. Brandenburg, Nicholas C. Stewart; Saul Ewing LLP;
Legal Alert/Article November 24, 2011, previously published on November 2011 As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress required HHS to conduct audits to ensure compliance with HIPAA’s privacy, security and breach notification standards. Beginning November 2011, OCR is piloting a program to perform up to 150 of these audits. OCR wants to...
| | CMS Releases 2012 Application for ACOs
Bruce D. Armon, Karen L. Palestini, Andrew J. Siegel; Saul Ewing LLP;
Legal Alert/Article November 24, 2011, previously published on November 2011 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) followed its November 2nd publication of the Final Rule for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) (available at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-11-02/pdf/2011-27461.pdf) with the release of the 2012 Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP)...
| | CMS releases Final Rule for ACOs
Bruce D. Armon; Saul Ewing LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 31, 2011, previously published on October 2011 On October 20, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Final Rule (http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2011-27461&under;PI.pdf) for Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) under the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The Final Rule is expected to be published in the...
| | OIG Provides Direction for Proposed Telemedicine Arrangement
Bruce D. Armon; Saul Ewing LLP;
Legal Alert/Article September 21, 2011, previously published on September 2011 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently posted Advisory Opinion No. 11-12 — http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/advisoryopinions/ 2011/AdvOpn11-12.pdf (the Advisory Opinion). The OIG concluded in this Advisory Opinion that a health system’s...
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