Next Accreditation System – Interview with Andy Roth, Member, Mintz Levin
The Alabama Board of Medical Examiners (“Board”) has proposed sweeping changes to the regulations guiding office-based surgeries in Alabama that, if passed, would create more stringent requirements with respect to procedures...more
Effective January 1, 2023, The Joint Commission (TJC) eliminated 168 (or 14%) of its accreditation standards across all of its accreditation programs and revised 14 other standards. To further streamline its standards, TJC is...more
Structure of AMCs - While every AMC is unique, there are some common characteristics that many share: (1) the hospital and school are often tethered together from an organizational, governance and/or legal perspective;...more
In November 2022, when The Joint Commission (“TJC”) announced its decision to update its accreditation standards to permit practitioner recredentialing every three years instead of two, many California hospitals and their...more
On Wednesday, December 21, 2022, The Joint Commission announced that, effective January 1, 2023, it is eliminating 168 (or 14%) of its accreditation standards across its accreditation programs, and revising 14 more. The Joint...more
It’s no secret that patients from marginalized groups experience lower quality health care. Acknowledging its role in closing the health care disparity gap, the Joint Commission recently announced new and revised...more
On April 29, 2022, CMS published a final rule requiring Accreditation Organizations (AOs) to notify CMS of changes of ownership (CHOWs). Effective June 28, 2022, an AO will need to notify CMS when undergoing or negotiating a...more
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing massive disruption and adjustment to patient care, including to hospitals’ graduate medical education (GME) programs. Decisions about the operation of these programs need to consider the ACGME...more
The U.S. healthcare industry remains at a crossroads. The healthcare reform legislation passed under President Barack Obama in 2010, officially called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) but widely referred...more
On July 20, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed claims against URAC Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit healthcare accreditation agency (URAC) by BHM Healthcare Solutions Inc., a...more
In March 2018, ClearHealth Quality Institute (CHQI), in partnership with the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), launched the new Telemedicine Accreditation Program Standards and Guide, v 2.0....more
A physician organization has failed to sufficiently plead that a physician certification group caused an unreasonable restraint of trade through its actions to promulgate its certification program. Last week, a district court...more
The Joint Commission (TJC) recently released new and revised pain assessment and management standards and elements of performance for its hospital accreditation program. These standards, effective January 1, 2018, follow an...more
The veil of secrecy may soon be lifted from the reports of accreditation organizations like The Joint Commission if a proposal in the April 28, 2017 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule is finalized. As...more
SB 396 (Hill) becomes effective on January 1, 2016, adding new patient protection measures to the current regulation of ambulatory surgery centers (“ASCs”). First, SB 396 authorizes accreditation organizations to perform...more