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Region C Recovery Audit Contractor ("RAC") Announces Issues Available for RAC Review
Allyson Jones Labban, Barry S. Herrin, August 13, 2009, previously published by Health Care Law Note (SML) on August 2009
Connolly Healthcare, the Recovery Audit Contractor (¿RAC¿) for Region C, has posted the first set of CMC-approved audit issues that will be the subject of RAC audits. These audit issues affect outpatient hospitals and physicians in South Carolina.

The Economic Stimulus Package: Changes to HIPAA
Barry S. Herrin, Patricia A. Markus, March 23, 2009, previously published by Legal HIMformation on March 2009
Expansion of the scope and penalties for violation of HIPAA included in the American Recovery and Reinviestment Act of 2009

"Special Procedureal or Evidentiary Rules" in Light of MetLife v. Glenn
Kenton J. Coppage, March 19, 2009, previously published by Life, Health and Disability News (DRI) on Fall 2008
In clarifying the effect of an ERISA fiduciary¿s conflict of interest on the level of judicial review accorded benefits decisions, the Supreme Court in Metropolitan Life v. Glenn, 128 S.Ct. 2343 (2008), wrote: ¿Neither do we believe it necessary or desirable for courts to create special...

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