Due diligence properly performed in connection with the purchase and sale of a health care entity is simply different—vastly so—than due diligence performed in other contexts. Failure to recognize this reality can lead to...more
9/26/2023
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Billing ,
Buyers ,
Compliance ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Due Diligence ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Patients ,
PHI ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Sellers ,
Sensitive Business Information ,
Sensitive Personal Information ,
Stark Law
HHS’s most recent guidance specifies the deadlines within which health care providers must use and report on Provider Relief Fund payments and provides much needed additional clarification concerning how and when health...more
On November 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released final rules, effective as of January 19, 2021 (with limited exception), amending and updating the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS),...more
HHS recently (1) postponed the deadline for healthcare providers to submit reports on Provider Relief Fund payments that exceed $10,000 in the aggregate and (2) identified additional methods that healthcare providers may...more
HHS reverses course and again permits healthcare providers to apply Provider Relief Fund payments against patient care lost “revenues” rather than limiting such application only to patient care lost “net operating...more
In the CARES Act that became law with President Trump’s signature on March 27, $100 billion was set aside for “health care related expenses or lost revenues that are attributable” to the COVID-19 pandemic. Commonly referred...more
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic visited on America in the past several months has quickly reinvigorated the foundational and important debate concerning where, in a free society, individual autonomy ends (or should end) and...more
9/4/2020
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Contact Tracing ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Covered Entities ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Disclosure ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Health and Safety ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HITECH Act ,
OCR ,
Patients ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Privacy Rule ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Security Rule ,
Telehealth
In the CARES Act that became law with President Trump’s signature on March 27, $100 billion has been set aside for “health care related expenses or lost revenues that are attributable” to the COVID-19 pandemic. Commonly...more
8/14/2020
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Audit Policies ,
CARES Act ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Executive Orders ,
Extensions ,
Hardship Distributions ,
Health Care Providers ,
Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act ,
Provider Relief Fund ,
Trump Administration
The CARES Act, which was signed into law on March 27, earmarks $100 billion for “health care related expenses or lost revenues that are attributable” to the COVID-19 pandemic. Legislatively titled the “Public Health and...more
On May 14, 2020, noting that (1) “since the time of the original Stay at Home order, the number of new COVID-19 cases and COVID-related hospitalizations in Louisiana have decreased, with the peak of hospitalizations occurring...more
On April 30, 2020, noting that “over the last two weeks, the number of new cases of COVID-19 in Louisiana has decreased significantly, and there is significant evidence that Louisiana has flattened the curve of the virus”,...more
As we reported in another item posted here, on March 13, 2020, pursuant to section 1135(b) of the Social Security Act, the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) invoked his authority to...more