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Related Practice Areas:

• HIPAA
• Health Information Technology
• Health Care Compliance
• Corporate Finance
• Credit Recovery & Bankruptcy
• Employment
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Publications & Resources:

• Back to the Future: Mandatory Stark Reporting Looms Once Again
• California Health Care Reform 2007:
  A Summary of the Governor’s Proposal
• Protecting PHI and Responding to Data Thefts
• Stereotactic Radiosurgery: Opportunities for Physician Investment
• Health Care Joint Ventures: Legal and Valuation
• Special BNA Article: Analysis & Perspective: HIPAA, Bartnicki, and Public Interest In Inherently Private Records
• Round Table Discussion -- Law, Regulation & Ethics: "To Err Is Human" -- The States Respond
• California Health Care Association Presentation

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Advisory Bulletins:

• CMS Proposes Another Layer of Stark Regulation
• Physician-Owned ASCs to Lose Licenses
• San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance: A Step-By-Step Approach to Compliance
• Washington Legislature Contemplates New “Baby” Stark Law
• STARK II PHASE III: More Changes; More Complexity
• Washington’s New Medicaid Audit Regulations: No More Mr. Nice Guy
• IRS Tries Again: More Guidance Regarding Health Information Technology Cost-Sharing Arrangements
• Redesigned Reporting Form for Tax-Exempt Organizations: IRS Releases Draft Form 990
• The Specter of Mandatory Stark Reporting Rears its Head (Again)
• Arizona Hospital Association Agrees to Stop Imposing Uniform Rates on Nurse Staffing Agencies
• IRS Guidance Clarifies That Tax-Exempt Hospitals May Share Health Information Technology With Physicians
• CMS Finally Issues Informed Guidance on Informed Consent: 2004 Interpretive Guidelines Revised
• Unionized Hospital Denied Antitrust Exemption in Nurses’ Suit
• Urgent Alert: Last Minute CMS Guidance On DRA’s “Employee Education About False Claims Recovery,” Effective January 1, 2007
• Executive Order Promotes Interoperable Electronic Health Records
• OIG and CMS Adopt Final Regulations Permitting Donation of e-Prescribing and Electronic Health Records Technology
• Health Care Data Breaches: Steps To Take When Prevention Fails
• Deficit Reduction Act of 2005: New Policies and Employee “Education” Requirements About False Claims Recovery and Whistleblower Protections
• Will Electronic Health Records Become the New Standard of Care? (And How Worried Should You Be If They Do?)
• Nuclear Medicine to Become a Stark Designated Health Service
• HHS Offers Cautious Protections for E-Prescribing and EHR Subsidies
• Medicare Prescription Drug Contracts: One Key Term That Could Plunge Your Organization into the False Claims Morass
• Federal Court of Appeals Broadly Defines Sexual Harassment, With Serious Implications Regarding Liability for Misbehavior by Disruptive Health Care Practitioners
• New Compliance Requirements Facing Pharmaceutical Companies Under California's SB 1765
• CMS Reports to Congress on Specialty Hospitals and Senate Considers Legislative Solution to Specialty Hospitals, DRGs and Gainsharing
• Medicare Proposes Revised Hospital Conditions of Participation Relating to Certain Medical Records, Documentation, and Medication Security Procedures
• OIG Issues Final Supplemental Hospital Compliance Guidance
• SB 1262 — California’s Nonprofit Integrity Bill Imposes Financial Statement, Audit Committee and Other Potentially Onerous Requirements on Hospital Affiliates Effective January 1, 2005
• Advisory Opinion 04-17: The OIG Continues to Scrutinize Joint Ventures
• Medical Provider Networks: The Newest Model for Treatment of Injured Employees?
• Schwarzenegger Vetoes Charity Care Bill – Calls for Hospitals to Implement Hospital Association’s Voluntary Charity Care Guidelines
• OIG Issues Hospital Compliance Guide
• Medicare Alert for Teaching Hospitals: CMS Begins Implementing MMA’s Redistribution of Unused Residents
• Stark II: Physician Recruitment
• Bryson v. Banner Health System Supreme Court No. S-10653/10673, (Alaska April 23, 2004)
• Satisfying JCAHO's Periodic Performance Review Requirement Without Compromising Confidentiality
• CMS Issues Average Sales Price Reporting Regulations
• Stark Phase II Final Regulations: The Rest of the Story
• Courts Revitalize Washington State's Corporate Practice Doctrine
• CMS Loosens Restrictions on Medicare Billing of Physician Fees
• Changes to Prescription Drug Benefits Under New Medicare Act
• The 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, “Improvement” and Modernization Act Provides Increased Revenue Opportunities
• The Health Insurance Act of 2003: California's "Pay or Play" Universal Health Coverage
• Liability of Hospitals and Their Officials When Technology Projects Fail
• OIG Proposes Regulation Changes Affecting Provider Charge Structures and Related Negotiations With Third Party Payors
• Summary of Final Changes to EMTALA Regulations
  Scheduled: Federal Register, September 9, 2003
• Hospital CEO Indicted for Recruitment Fraud Scheme
  Recommended Precautions for Physician Recruitment
• OIG Issues Special Advisory Bulletin On Contractual Joint Ventures
• DWT Releases Comments On OIG's Issuance of Compliance Resource Guide for Corporate Boards
• In the Wake of the Tenet Investigation, CMS Issues Program Memorandum On DRG Outliers
• OIG Releases Model Compliance Plan Guidance for the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industry - DWT Analysis and Comments
• A Promise of Relief to Come? Proposed Revisions to EMTALA and Provider-Based Regulations
  
• OIG Releases Final Compliance Guidance for Nursing Facilities
• The Other Privacy Law: Preparing for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
• The Final Stark II Regulations - Finally
• OIG Releases Final Compliance Guidance for Nursing Facilities
• OIG Spotlights Excluded Parties
• OIG Takes Aim at Hospital Gainsharing
• New Hospital Condition of Participation is Designed to Protect Patients' Rights
• Preparing for the Wave of Whistleblower Lawsuits
• HCFA Proposes Rules to Limit Provider-based Status for Outpatient Programs