CMS Proposes New Rule to Expand Telehealth Benefits Under Medicare Advantage Plans
Day PitneyThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new rule that, effective plan year 2020, would allow Medicare Advantage (“MA”) insurers to…
Patients are receiving opioids at a rate that is nearly four times what they actually use following surgery. A study published in JAMA Surgery on…
On the heels of the end of the comment period for input on reducing the regulatory burdens of the Physician Self-referral Law (also known as…
In United States v. Mehmood, the Sixth Circuit affirmed the conviction of Zafar Mehmood and Badar Ahmadani but vacated their sentences and remanded for resentencing.…
Day Pitney’s Michael Furey was quoted in a July 24 article, “An inside look at how Horizon used hospital costs – and quality – in plan…
California’s Dreaming of Tougher Health-Care Privacy
An August 2 article in Bloomberg Law’s Health Law & Life Sciences News, “California’s Dreaming of Tougher Health-Care Privacy,” discussed the California Consumer Privacy Act, a…
The proposed rule released on July 12 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would create new billing codes that, if approved, will…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) proposed rule containing revisions to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2019, released on July 12, proposed…
A July 24 article in Bloomberg Law’s Health Law & Life Sciences News, “Help Wanted: Medicare Looking for Health Tech Expert,” discussed a new push…
Support Grows for Stark Law Modification or Repeal
There has been a recent groundswell of support for modifying or eliminating the federal physician self-referral law, commonly known as the Stark Law. Last month’s Request…