Health Law Alert

On September 17, 2019, US District Judge Rosemary Collyer of the District of Columbia struck down CMS’ policy included in the CY2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule that cut Medicare payment rates to hospitals offering physician services. The policy established payment for medical services provided in off-campus, hospital outpatient […]

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it would vigorously enforce the rights of patients to receive copies of their medical records in a timely fashion. OCR held true to its word, and, on September 9, 2019, announced the […]

On August 26, 2019, HHS’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (“SAMHSA”) published a Proposed Rule updating the regulations on the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Records (“Part 2”). Part 2 Programs, which can be stand-alone facilities or individuals or departments of general medical facilities whose primary function is […]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a controversial proposed rule regarding price transparency for hospitals as part of the FY 2020 Outpatient Prospective Payment Proposed Rule. In its fact sheet regarding these provisions of the proposed rule, CMS noted that President Trump signed an Executive Order on […]

Last year, the Nebraska Unicameral updated Nebraska’s Wounds of Violence reporting statute. In the statutory update, the Attorney General was directed to develop and distribute a statewide model protocol for the submission of anonymous reports of actual or attempted sexual assaults by July 2019. In the interim, the Attorney General’s […]