No Fraud Waivers Contemplated On February 14, 2019, CMS’ Innovation Center announced its Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3) Model for EMS / ambulance suppliers to partner with other health care providers such as telehealth entities and urgent care centers in order to triage and treat Medicare beneficiaries more effectively. In response to a recent…… Continue reading this entry
As noted in previous Health Care Law Today blog posts, we have seen an uptick in private equity recapitalization transactions in orthopedics. We expect this trend to continue, and to pick up pace, as the economy remains robust and the appetite for the most lucrative physician practices increases. When coupled with an increasing maturation of…… Continue reading this entry
The Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) proposes to revise regulations issued pursuant to the Federal physician self-referrals Statute (Stark Law) to harmonize the regulations with the newly enacted Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-123, enacted on February 9, 2018). Stark Law generally prohibits Medicare payment for claims resulting from physician referrals for…… Continue reading this entry
There are many health care financial arrangements where one entity has a financial obligation to another, with whom it either does business directly, or to which it makes referrals, and that obligation is either past due or for one reason or another cannot be paid. This may come up, for example, in the context of…… Continue reading this entry