Publications

On Tuesday, September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration announced the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program established by Executive Order during the Obama Administration that provided deportation relief and work authorization to certain undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.  The rescission will […]

Beginning in January 2016 and usually produced monthly since then, the OIG has released videos on a wide variety of topics that the OIG states “highlight an emerging health care issue or trend.”  The videos are not copyrighted and may be viewed from the OIG website www.oig.hhs.gov or accessed and […]

On August 29, 2017, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) halted the new EEO-1 pay disclosure requirements required by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), pending OMB review. The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) gives the OMB’s Director the right to determine whether collections of information (like the EEO-1) meet […]

The Jimmo v. Sebelius case, settled in 2013, clarified Medicare coverage of nursing services and therapy to prevent deterioration, the so-called “maintenance coverage” standard.  The clarification was necessary to dispense with a long-held erroneous belief that Medicare only covered nursing and therapy services when the beneficiary was expected to improve.  Ironically, there […]

On August 2, 2017, in the 2018 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long Term Acute Care Hospital Prospective Payment System Final Rule (the “Final Rule”), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released changes to the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Program (“Meaningful Use”).  The […]