Health Law Alert

On June 23, 2014, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Parkview Health System, Inc., a nonprofit health care system serving parts of Indiana and Ohio, for violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Parkview agreed to pay $800,000 and adopt […]

The latest Special Fraud Alert directed to clinical laboratories issued by the OIG on September 25, 2014, addresses compensation paid by labs to referring physicians and group practices for blood specimen collection, processing, and packaging and for submitting patient data to a registry or database. This Special Fraud Alert is […]

On May 7, 2014, the OFCCP published Directive 2014-01, which establishes a five-year moratorium on its enforcement of obligations related to affirmative action programs and recordkeeping under Executive Order (E.O.) 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 503), and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of […]

On April 3, 2014, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad signed into law Senate File 2259, amending the state’s personal information security breach notification requirements. The revised Iowa Code Chapter 715C expands the definitions of key terms, including “breach of security” and “personal information,” and establishes an Attorney General notification requirement for […]

Two submissions under the Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (SRDP) reporting possible violations of the Stark Law were settled by CMS on December 23, 2013. As reported by CMS on its website, the first submission involved an acute care hospital in Florida, which disclosed that its arrangement with 51 physicians failed to […]