Welcome to our fourth issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we address a variety of topics including a recent SCOTUS ruling and the potential impact on CMS, issues of patient...more
8/22/2024
/ Billing ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Chevron Deference ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Hospitals ,
HRSA ,
Interstate Compacts ,
Licensing Rules ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Nursing Homes ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmacies ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Rural Health Care Providers ,
SCOTUS ,
Transparency
Welcome to our third issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter!
We are winding down the summer with our talented group of law students and they have continued to research and write, shadow...more
7/25/2024
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Chevron Deference ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Government Agencies ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Hospitals ,
Insurance Industry ,
Judicial Authority ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Life Sciences ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
New Legislation ,
New Regulations ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Regulatory Reform ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Technology ,
Telehealth ,
Transgender
Welcome to our inaugural issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter!
As such, we wanted to pull together our insights and pass them along to you. Our goal is to create a publication that is...more
5/21/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Billing ,
Breach Notification Rule ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Discrimination ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Budget ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health and Welfare Plans ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Machine Learning ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Patients ,
Personal Data ,
Physicians ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Ransomware ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Stark Law ,
Telehealth ,
Transgender
Spilman's COVID-19 Task Force and Health Care Practice Group have developed this e-newsletter to address important issues affecting health care providers and others operating in the health care industry during the COVID-19...more
Telehealth is not a new concept, but it has been accelerated to the forefront recently by government mandated social distancing. While all of the "stay-at-home" orders issued across the country to date have included...more
In times of emergency, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the "Secretary") has authority to issue temporary waivers or modifications of certain Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and HIPAA requirements. The Centers for...more
4/7/2020
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Public Health Emergency ,
State of Emergency ,
Waivers
On March 30, 2020, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services ("Secretary") announced a blanket waiver ("Waiver") of sanctions for violations of Section 1877 of the Social Security Act, also known as the...more
4/7/2020
/ Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Self-Referral ,
Stark Law ,
State of Emergency ,
Waivers
Recently, we have noticed an alarming increase within the Spilman footprint of revocations by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") of physicians' Medicare billing privileges. In particular, CMS has been...more
9/19/2017
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
DMEPOS ,
Health Care Providers ,
Home Health Care ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Billing Privileges ,
Medicare Provider Agreements ,
Physician Medicare Reimbursements ,
Physicians ,
Record Retention ,
Revocation ,
Right of Access ,
TRO