New Compliance Rules Stemming from the Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP Extension...
For over a year now, the health care team at Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge has been busy assisting insurers and third-party administrators as they develop plans and procedures to comply with Section...
View ArticleCMS Updates Signature Guidelines
On May 16, 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued Transmittal 327 which revises the signature requirements for medical review activities of Medicare claim review contractors....
View ArticleMMSEA Section 111 Alert Regarding Risk Management Write-Offs by Health Care...
On May 26, 2010, CMS officials finally clarified one of the outstanding issues for insured health care providers relative to the mandatory reporting requirements contained in Section 111 of the...
View ArticleNew Rule Allows for Electronic Transmission of Controlled Substance...
A new Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) rule could substantially impact the way prescriptions for controlled substances can be transmitted from a physician to a pharmacy. As physicians and pharmacies seek...
View ArticleMedical Residents Considered Employees, Not Students, Under Federal Tax Law
On January 11, 2011, the United States Supreme Court, in an unanimous opinion authored by Chief Justice Roberts, upheld a Treasury Department rule that established that medical residents are full-time...
View ArticleMichigan Court of Appeals Rules State Law on Patient Privacy Trumps HIPAA in...
A new published health law opinion from the Michigan Court of Appeals could have some far reaching effects on HIPAA litigation. In the case of Isidore Steiner, DPM, PC v Marc Bonanni, Dr. Bonanni was...
View ArticleMichigan Healthcare Professionals Convicted of Certain Criminal Sexual...
The Michigan House of Representatives recently passed a bill package that would allow for the permanent revocation of a healthcare professional’s license or registration for certain criminal sexual...
View ArticleDepartment of Justice Asks Court To Dismiss Michigan Challenge Of Health Care...
The Thomas More Law Center filed a federal lawsuit in 2010 against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Law Center is challenging the Act's constitutionality in an effort to permanently...
View ArticleSixth Circuit Court Finds Healthcare Reform's Individual Mandate Constitutional
On June 29, 2011, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit upheld the constitutionality of a key part of the healthcare reform law - the requirement that Americans...
View ArticleSebelius Unveils Rules For State Health Exchanges
On July 11, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). The first proposed rule, the Exchange NPRM, will enable States to build...
View ArticleMichigan Requests Health Law Waiver
On July 28, 2011, Michigan submitted an application to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requesting a waiver of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) medical loss ratio requirements for its...
View ArticleMichigan Court of Appeals Case Rules Medical Marihuana Dispensaries and...
On August 23, 2011, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that the patient-to-patient sale of medical marihuana is an enjoinable public nuisance, meaning that the State can discontinue the activity due...
View Article18 Detroit Individuals Charged with Fraudulently Billing $28 Million in...
The Obama Administration has brought charges against 91 people nationwide who are accused of fraudulently billing the Medicare system out of nearly $300 million. Among those accused, 18 people have...
View ArticleMichigan Court of Appeals Holds Physician Cannot Refuse to Provide IVF...
In an unpublished opinion on September 29, 2011, the Michigan Court of Appeals found that a physician cannot refuse to enter into a physician-patient relationship with a single woman seeking in vitro...
View ArticleMichigan Denied Health Law Waiver by Federal Regulators
In August, we reported that Michigan had submitted an application to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requesting a waiver of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) medical loss ratio...
View ArticleMichigan Supreme Court Decision in Jilek v Stockson a Win for Healthcare...
The Michigan Supreme Court has issued its long-awaited decision in Jilek v Stockson, and it is a victory for healthcare providers.The Supreme Court summarily reversed the Court of Appeal’s holding that...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act Saved Medicare Recipients Billions on Prescription Drugs...
The Obama administration reported that in 2011, the first full year of the new healthcare reform law, 3.6 million people in the Medicare program saved $2.1 billion on prescription drugs. According to...
View ArticleHealthcare Reform Oral Arguments to be Heard in the United States Supreme...
Two years after the signing of the Affordable Care Act, the United States Supreme Court is poised to decide the law's constitutionality. The Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to the healthcare...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform: Supreme Court's decision expected on Thursday.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court is expected to announce its decision on the constitutionality of the health care reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This decision will have a...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform: Supreme Court upholds individual mandate but places...
Yesterday morning the Supreme Court of the United States, in a 5-4 vote, upheld the controversial Individual Mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act ("ACA"). The Supreme Court also issued a...
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