Publications

Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule with comment period regarding changes to the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs (Meaningful Use). The changes come as many providers continue to face administrative burdens related to Meaningful Use software implementation and other […]

On November 22, 2016, a federal judge blocked the new federal overtime rule that would have made more workers eligible for overtime pay beginning December 1, 2016. U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant, III of the Eastern District of Texas (an Obama judicial appointee) entered a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking […]

On November 14, 2016, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service at long last published the revised version of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. Employers may continue using the current Form I-9 (revision date of 03/08/2013) through January 21, 2017. However, by January 22, 2017, all employers must use the […]

On October 24, 2016, a U.S. District Court issued a preliminary injunction blocking the majority of the provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the Department of Labor guidance document implementing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. Specifically, the rule requiring federal contractors with high dollar federal contracts […]

A recent Georgia case brings to light the fraudulent practice of physicians allowing insufficiently qualified or completely unqualified persons to perform clinical services and documenting the services as though the physician performed them. The practice may go undetected for a time due to improper password sharing in order to allow […]