On April 19, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published recommendations for re-opening facilities to provide non-emergent non-COVID-19 health care services.[1] The recommendations provide guidance for...more
5/14/2020
/ Ambulatory Surgery Centers ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Elective Surgical Procedures ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hospitals ,
Nurses ,
Personal Protective Equipment ,
Physicians ,
Re-Opening Guidelines ,
Surgical Center Requirements ,
Virus Testing ,
Workplace Decontamination
In the closely watched Oswald v. Beard case decided last Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of a 2012 law which grants a hospital charitable property tax exemption if the value of...more
Illinois hospitals continue to face uncertainty regarding the law under which they may seek exemption from property taxes. As reported in our March 30, 2017, Health Law Alert, the Illinois Supreme Court declined to rule on...more
The Illinois Hospital Licensing Act regulations (Regulations) have been revised significantly to reflect the new reality of health system governance of hospitals. The revisions focus on the governance and medical staffs of...more
There have been two new developments in the long running saga over a charitable property tax exemption for hospitals in Illinois....more
This is the second of three alerts discussing the mid-year update to the Fiscal Year 2016 Work Plan issued by the Office of Inspector General (OIG). In the first alert we discussed the top management performance challenges...more
6/24/2016
/ Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Fiscal Year ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Hospitals ,
Medical Devices ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Outlier Payment Rules ,
MedPAC ,
OIG ,
Two-Midnight Rule ,
Work Plans