Publications

It’s déjà vu all over again. For the third time in as many years, Congress passed an enforcement moratorium on physician supervision requirements for critical access and small rural hospitals. Section 16004 of the 21st Century Cures Act—signed by outgoing President Barack Obama on December 13, 2016—extends the Centers for […]

With the end of 2016, covered entities must remember to file all breach reports with OCR. If a covered entity experienced a breach (as defined in the data breach notification rule) during 2016, the deadline for reporting the breach to OCR is March 1, 2017. Covered entities have 60 days […]

The Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility Act (NOTICE Act) requires hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) to provide written and oral notification and explanation of observation services to outpatients receiving observation services for more than 24 hours at a hospital or CAH. On August 22, 2016, […]

The Rent-Restricted Housing Projects Valuation Committee sets the capitalization rate that county assessors use to value low income housing tax credit (“LIHTC”) projects for property tax purposes. On November 29, 2016, the Committee set the 2017 capitalization rate at 6.5 percent. The 2017 rate is the same as the 2016 […]

Randy and Helen Strode purchased several tracts of land in Ashland, Nebraska. Between November 2002 and June 2003, the City of Ashland (the “City”) repeatedly notified Randy his use of the property to store salvage violated zoning regulations. On June 10, 2003, the City mailed him a notice of intent […]