Health Law Alert

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released two proposed rules affecting the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program (“Meaningful Use”). The first set of proposed rules relates to Stage 3 (the final stage) of Meaningful Use. The second set of proposed rules relates to Stage 1 and Stage […]

In an unprecedented collaboration, the Office of Inspector General (OIG). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Association of Health Care Internal Auditors, the American Health Lawyers Association and the Health Care Compliance Association worked together to develop a new guidance document for governing boards regarding compliance oversight […]

On March 16, 2015 the Minnesota United States District Court denied a Defendant hospital and physician professional association’s Motion to Dismiss Jakob T. Rumble’s discrimination complaint under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Rumble v. Fairview Health Services; D.Minn. (2015 WL 1197415). The suit marked the first time […]

On March 10, 2015 the Internal Revenue Service published Revenue Procedure 2015-21 – which provided remedial procedures for tax-exempt hospitals that have minor errors in the implementation of or fail to implement requirements established by § 501(r). Revenue Procedure requirements piggyback on the Treasury Department and the IRS’s 501(r) final […]

The Nebraska Legislature approved, and, on March 5, 2015, the Governor signed Legislative Bill 107, which amends the Nebraska Nurse Practitioner Practice Act, governing advance practice registered nurses (APRNs), to be effective June 5, 2015. The stated purpose of the Bill includes “to eliminate requirements for integrated practice agreements for […]