Health Law Alert

Several changes to long-established tax law and guidance in the past year may restrict borrowers’ access to tax-exempt financing. Health care providers that are exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, or governmental subdivisions such as county hospitals, should be aware of these changes. When the corporate tax […]

Recently, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson) was fined $4.3 Million for HIPAA violations. Unlike many Office for Civil Rights (OCR) HIPAA enforcement actions that resulted in a settlement agreement, this case was not informally resolved and resulted in an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) requiring MD […]

Alabama and South Dakota joined the other 48 states by enacting data breach legislation that requires entities (private or public) to notify individuals of security breaches of information involving personally identifiable information. South Dakota On March 21, 2018, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed SB 62 into law. While SB […]

In its most recent session, the Iowa Legislature took steps to address the statewide shortage of behavioral health services. It passed two laws intended to broaden access to services, and also authorized two work groups to review how the state’s existing behavioral health resources could be employed more efficiently. Those […]

Medicare Part A provides cost reimbursement to critical access hospitals (CAHs) for the reasonable costs of compensating emergency room physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists who are on call, as long as they are not otherwise furnishing medical services and are not on call at any other […]