Publications

The Second Session of the 105th Nebraska Legislature convened on January 3, 2018. This Dirt Alert provides an update on certain bills introduced during days 6-10 of the Session related to economic development, municipal law, real estate, renewable energy, and taxation. A list of all bills we are tracking for […]

The Second Session of the 105th Nebraska Legislature convened on January 3, 2018. This Dirt Alert provides an update on certain bills introduced during the first five days of the Session related to economic development, municipal law, real estate, renewable energy, taxation and water/natural resources law. Here is a list […]

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 […]