Health Law

Arguably no other area of interdisciplinary law affects the daily lives of the general public and, in turn, your clients, more than health law. Moreover, healthcare has become big business with the rising cost of quality medical care, prescription drug coverage, and the need for long-term health care solutions for an aging population. Legal matters frequently arise from the denial of Social Security benefits to the maze of options available for small businesses that are required to provide healthcare insurance coverage to their employees. Click on the links below to also learn about how to better represent your clients seeking Medicare coverage or how to make your company’s health benefits work for its employees.

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Health Care Financing Administration Issues Proposed Stark II Regulations

Recently the Health Care Financing Administration ("HCFA") issued proposed regulations interpreting the Stark law. The Stark law originally prohibited physicians from referring Medicare beneficiaries for clinical laboratory services to entities in ...
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Health Care Fraud and Abuse and Voluntary Disclosure

The increased enforcement efforts of the state and Federal governments against those providers and suppliers who allegedly have violated the health care fraud and abuse laws has been accompanied with increased industry attention to the possibility ...
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Health Care Proxy

A Health Care Proxy is a document that appoints someone to make health care decisions for you in the event that you are incapacitated. The person who is given this decision making power is called the agent. A Health Care Proxy is to be distinguished ...
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Health Care Services Update

On August 17, 2000, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Final Rule adopting standards for electronic transactions and code sets for the processing of health care claims. The Rule implements some of the requirements of ...
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Health Industry Alert: October 6, 1999

On September 27, 1999, California Governor Gray Davis signed into law an impressive "package" of new health care bills affecting the managed care industry in California. Although many of the 21 new laws take effect as late as January 1, 2001, there ...
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Health Law Advisory Bulletin: Changes to Prescription Drug Benefits Under New Medicare Act

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 contains the most extensive changes to Medicare since the program was enacted in 1965. Historically, Medicare has provided only a limited outpatient prescription drug benefit ...
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Health Law Highlights Issue

In February 2000 the Office of Inspector General (.OIG.), the governmental agency responsible for conducting Medicare audits, investigations and inspections, issued a Special Fraud Alert applicable to the rental of space in physicians. offices by ...
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Help for Brownfields

Ever expecting an influx of residents and business to New Jersey, Trenton is again touting "smart growth", the control of sprawl and the promotion of redevelopment. Several state programs are available in New Jersey to promote development of ...
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HHS Audit and Investigation Priorities in 1999

Recent activity by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' office of Inspector General suggests that compliance programs and qui tam litigation will continue to dominate federal government audit and ...
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HHS Office Of Inspector General Publishes New And Revised Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors

Although the final rules were expected for over five years and were followed with great interest by many segments of the health care industry, not all of the changes reflect major policy shifts by the OIG. Nevertheless, any individual or entity ...
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