Read health care law and business reporter Matt Phifer’s story on one of our preliminary injunction cases in the Southern District of Texas. The injunction prevents HHS from withholding/recouping Medicare payments from our client during the lead up to the...
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How Will Medicare & Medicaid Handle Telemedicine?
Telemedicine is the wave of the future for health care. The use of technology for health concerns has risen in the past five years and is expected to grow 18.8% annually until 2025. Estimates project 7 million patients will use telemedicine services in 2018. Despite...
Avoiding Stark Law Violations and Penalties
Under Stark law, doctors are prevented from making self-referrals. More precisely, physicians are restricted from referring Medicare and Medicaid patients to a DHS (designated health services) provider if that provider has a financial relationship with the physician....
Managing Credential Renewals
Health care practice administrators often receive frustrating communications from insurance companies. The last-minute requests for credentialing renewals can be especially upsetting because of the amount of information you must submit. The easiest way to handle...
10 Mistakes That Can Result in Medical Malpractice
Despite the fact that most doctors and their staff use good judgement when it comes to patient care, there are thousands of medical malpractice lawsuits brought each year. Mistakes do occur but just not all medical malpractice cases are justified and not all...
EHR Incentives and Certifications – Attaining Meaningful Use
In 2009, legislation authorized the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) to offer health care providers financial incentives to use certified electronic health recording technology (CEHRT) to keep electronic health records (EHRs) on patients. Learn about...
HIPAA-Compliant Texting for Medical Professionals
Like everyone else, physicians and health-care professionals have taken to texting in a big way. Results of a recent study of health care providers revealed that 64% percent of the physicians surveyed regularly use SMS (text) messaging to send and receive patient data...
Situations When Physicians Will Need a Lawyer
To a lot of people, physicians and lawyers do not go together. But the truth is that physicians are more likely to need a lawyer than other people because of the nature of their work. Since their job requires them to interact with a lot of people on a daily basis,...
Rewards Exception to Beneficiary Inducement CMPL
The Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services recently passed a regulation providing an exception to certain prohibitions under the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (CMPL). This exception allows pharmacies and other healthcare...
Changes to FDA Regulation of Health-Related Apps
On July 27th of this year, the FDA announced its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan, which is intended to speed up the process(es) associated with bringing innovations in digital health to market. It was developed by the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological...