 | Kentucky Spirit Terminates Managed Care Contract, Sues Cabinet
Mathew R. Klein; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle psc;
Legal Alert/Article November 2, 2012 Kentucky Spirit, one of the three Medicaid managed care companies serving Kentucky, has informed the Cabinet for Health and Family Services of its intention to prematurely terminate its three-year contract.
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| Donating Your Used Car to Charity
Edward M. Zerhusen; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle psc;
Legal Alert/Article October 31, 2012 One of the negative aspects of buying a new car is the annoyance involved with getting rid of your old car. Many individuals find the trade-in allowance offered by dealers (if any) to be well below the car's true value. But the alternative to selling the car on your own involves the expense of...
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| Employee or Independent Contractor: a Potential Minefield
Kelli A. Kleisinger; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle psc;
Legal Alert/Article October 25, 2012 Classifying workers as employees or independent contractors has always been a difficult task. but recently the IRS and the Department of Labor have been cracking down on companies that wrongly classify their workers. In Atlantic Coast Masonry, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the Tax...
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| MERS - Questions Remain as the Fight Continues
Patrick R. Hughes; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle psc;
Legal Alert/Article October 23, 2012 Real estate law and real estate transactions in the United States have been subject to state regulations and county-level recordation requirements since the country's founding. As such, every time a financial instrument containing mortgages is sold, various state laws require that the sale of each...
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| CMS Releases Stage 2 Requirements For Use of Electronic Health Records
James A. Dietz; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle psc;
Legal Alert/Article October 19, 2012, previously published by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final rule on the Stage 2 requirements for the electronic health record (EHR) incentive program.
Under the EHR program, providers can qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments undere the Health Information...
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| CMS Collects its 13th Self-Disclosure Settlement
James A. Dietz; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle psc;
Legal Alert/Article October 18, 2012 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently settled two violations of the physician self-referral law (Stark Law) that were disclosed by a Missouri hospital under the Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (SRDP).
This latest settlement is the thirteenth since the SRDP's inception...
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| OIG Releases FY 2013 Work Plan
James A. Dietz; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle psc;
Legal Alert/Article October 18, 2012 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released its Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2013. Annually, OIG releases the plan to identify the projects it intends to undertake and the issues it intends to address in the upcoming year.
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| Brent Spence - For Whom The Bridge Tolls
Mark D. Guilfoyle; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle psc;
Legal Alert/Article October 16, 2012 On June 20, 2012, the Federal Highway Administration approved a cost savings plan to construct two Ohio River bridges in Louisville. The plan will save more than $1.5 billion and cut construction time in half. One component of the plan is the use of tolls as a financing mechanism.
In Northern...
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| Changes Coming for Medicare Set-Aside Arrangements
David Dirr, David Dirr; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle psc;
Legal Alert/Article October 16, 2012, previously published by The law governing Medicare Set-Aside Arrangements ("MSAs") in personal injury liability lawsuits may soon be changing. In personal injury liability cases, MSAs are funds from a judgment or settlement allocated to cover the future medical expenses of a Medicare beneficiary. If a Medicare...
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| Board Lengthens Some Medical Disputes in Workers' Compensation
R. Stephen Burke; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle psc;
Legal Alert/Article October 16, 2012 The Kentucky Workers Compensation Board has added another lawyer to cases that are called medical-fee disputes. The Board ruled recently in Workman v. Twin Resources, et. al. (2005-00744) that all medical-fee disputes must be assigned to an administrative law judge for proof-taking, which often is...
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