Health Law Alert

In the recent case, United States ex. rel. Groat v. Boston Heart Diagnostics Corp., decided in December 2017, the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia held that a laboratory may rely on the ordering physician’s determination of medical necessity in the laboratory’s certification for payment on the CMS-1500 […]

In November 2017, we published an article on Schmidt v. Ramsey, a case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the Nebraska Hospital Medical Liability Act (the “Act”). This case involved a claim by the mother of a baby who suffered […]

On November 15, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published the 2018 Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule (the “MPFS Final Rule”) in the Federal Register. The MPFS Final Rule addresses changes to the Medicare physician fee schedule and other Medicare Part B payment policies, as well […]

As we jump into 2018, health care institutions who receive TRICARE dollars should assess whether those TRICARE dollars are high enough to require them to prepare Affirmative Action Plans (“AAPs”). If they do, they must get their AAPs in place beginning this year, so that they have the requisite information […]

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that was enacted into law on December 22, 2017, introduced a new excise tax on excess compensation (or excess parachute payments) that is paid to “covered employees” by tax-exempt organizations, including government entities with exempt income, beginning with taxable years beginning after December 31, […]