Practical Tips for Providers Managing Risks Related to Excluded Parties and...
On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a Special Advisory Bulletin on the Effect of Exclusion from Participation in Federal Health Care...
View Article2013 AHLA In-House Counsel Program and Annual Meeting
Patton Boggs is a sponsor of the American Health Lawyers Association’s 2013 In-House Counsel Program and Annual Meeting in San Diego in late June/early July. DC Partner Laura Laemmle-Weidenfeld will...
View ArticleHealth Care and Life Sciences Law in 2013
DC partner Laura Laemmle-Weidenfeld will be speaking at an October PLI seminar in New York focused on “Health Care and Life Sciences Law in 2013.” The one-day program will feature speakers from the...
View ArticleAHLA/HCCA Fraud and Compliance Forum
DC partner Laura Laemmle-Weidenfeld will be a speaker at the Fraud and Compliance Forum in Baltimore jointly sponsored by the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) and the American Health Lawyers...
View ArticleAdvanced Forum on False Claims and Qui Tam Enforcement
DC partner Laura Laemmle-Weidenfeld will be speaking at the American Conference Institute’s Advanced Forum on False Claims and Qui Tam Enforcement in late January in New York. The program is designed...
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LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY This week the Senate will take its turn to question the Administration about the bumpy healthcare.gov rollout, with two hearings on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance...
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Legislative Activity The House and Senate will continue to hold oversight and investigation hearings focused on the problems with HealthCare.gov. This week’s hearings follow the Department of Health...
View ArticleNAHDO Annual Conference
Denver partner Melodi Gates will participate in the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) annual conference in Denver. Ms. Gates will speak on the panel titled, “What Happens in...
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Legislative Activity The House and Senate will continue to hold oversight and investigation hearings focused on the problems with HealthCare.gov. This week’s hearings follow the Department of Health...
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LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY SGR Update The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a one-page memo that lowered the cost for repealing Medicare’s physician payment formula, reporting that a ten-year repeal...
View Article2014 Preview of Cybersecurity, Energy and Cleantech, and Health Care Issues
On January 16, 2014, Capital Thinking radio host Kevin O’Neill started out with a preview of developing issues in the cybersecurity, energy and cleantech, and health care spaces. He spoke first with...
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LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY This Week’s PPACA Vote House leadership has scheduled a vote next week to ban federal subsidies from being used for abortion coverage. H.R. 7, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion...
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LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY This Week’s PPACA Vote House leadership has scheduled a vote next week to ban federal subsidies from being used for abortion coverage. H.R. 7, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion...
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LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY SGR Reform Negotiations Staff negotiations on a package to overhaul the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula are gaining steam as the Committees of jurisdiction tackle a...
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LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY SGR Policy Framework Deal Last week, the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the three committees of jurisdiction over Medicare (Senate Finance Committee, House Ways and Means and...
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LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY This Week’s Hearings: Monday, February 24: The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Tuesday, February 25: The House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee...
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LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY Ways and Means Tax Proposal The House Committee on Ways and Means released a comprehensive tax reform proposal, which includes a number of health related provisions. Notable...
View ArticleProtecting Patient Information - Feds Find Security Lapses in State and Local...
Taken together, two recent announcements from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) highlight the need for state and local governments (and others who collect and maintain patient...
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LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY SGR/Individual Mandate Vote House Republican Leadership has scheduled a vote on Friday to consider H.R. 4015, the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of...
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LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY SGR Update With the March 31 expiration of the current physician fee fix (“doc fix”) quickly approaching, the House and Senate Leadership are working to craft another patch while...
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