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Adam Laughton; King & Spalding LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 24, 2012, previously published on January 23, 2012 On January 18, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued its report entitled “Lessons from Medicare’s Demonstration Projects on Disease Management, Care Coordination, and Value-Based Payment.” The CBO report, which looked at ten Medicare demonstration projects from the past...
| | CMS FAQs on Medicaid RAC Program
Juliet M. McBride; King & Spalding LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 18, 2012, previously published on January 17, 2012 CMS published Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) related to the Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program on December 30, 2011. CMS highlights significant sections of the Medicaid RAC final rule in this guidance and re-emphasizes that Medicaid RACs will not replace existing state Medicaid...
| | Corrections to CY 2012 OPPS/ASC Final Rule
Christina Ann Gonzalez; King & Spalding LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 12, 2012, previously published on January 9 , 2012 On January 4, 2012, CMS published corrections to the CY 2012 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment/Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment final rule with comment period, which was published in the Federal Register on November 30, 2011 (CY 2012 OPPS/ASC Final Rule, 76 Fed. Reg. 74122). In its review...
| | OIG Finds Hospital Incident Reporting Systems Fail to Capture Most Patient Harm
Susan Banks, Nancy C. LeGros; King & Spalding LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 12, 2012, previously published on January 9, 2012 Medicare’s conditions of participation require providers to track and analyze adverse events and instances of patient harm and to take steps to prevent their recurrence. According to a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) on January...
| | Seeking Judicial Review of EPA Administrative Compliance Orders
Jamie Miller, C. Brannon Robertson; King & Spalding LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 6, 2012, previously published on January 2012 Energy companies are right to be concerned about government regulators seeking to expand their powers. And there is often a sense that when an agency, such as the EPA, pushes its bounds and hinders legitimate business activity, there seems to be little a company can do. However there are two recent...
| | Authorizations to Export Liquefied Natural Gas from the United States
Monica Hwang, Matt Salo; King & Spalding LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 6, 2012, previously published on January 2012 Only a few years ago, natural gas production in the United States was on the decline and prices were climbing, leading to the construction of a number of terminals for the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG). But the discovery of significant shale gas reserves and the development of the...
| | Medicare Physician Reimbursement Reduction Extended Until End of February
Juliet M. McBride; King & Spalding LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 5, 2012, previously published on January 3, 2012 On December 23, 2011, President Obama signed payroll tax cut legislation (H.R. 3765 - “Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011”) that defers a scheduled 27 percent Medicare reimbursement reduction for physicians until the end of February 2012. This is an extension from the...
| | CMS “Clarifies” Allowable Provider Tax Cost Reporting Guidance
Krista M. Barnes; King & Spalding LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 4, 2012, previously published on January 3, 2012 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued Transmittal 448, revising the Provider Reimbursement Manual (PRM) provisions addressing the claiming of provider taxes as allowable Medicare costs. The revisions reflect policy statements made by CMS in the August 2010 Federal...
| | CMS Approves Texas Medicaid Managed Care Waiver
Adam Laughton; King & Spalding LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 20, 2011, previously published on December 19, 2011 On December 12, 2011, CMS and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) announced that CMS had approved Texas’s application for a new Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration waiver, the “Texas Healthcare Transformation and Quality Improvement Program.” The waiver was...
| | Federal Court Holds Florida Statute Requiring Disclosure of Nursing Home Patient Records to Spouses and Others Preempted by HIPAA
Adam Robison; King & Spalding LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 14, 2011, previously published on December 12, 2011 On December 2, 2011, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, granted summary judgment in a declaratory judgment action in favor of a group of nursing homes on the grounds that Florida Statutes Section 400.145 is preempted by the Health Insurance...
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