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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OIG Publishes Draft Compliance Guidance For Nursing Facilities

This alert is also available in Adobe Acrobat format here. On October 29, 1999, the HHS Office of Inspector General ("OIG") published draft compliance program guidance for nursing facilities. The draft guidance appeared in the Federal Register in ...
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OIG Publishes Draft Compliance Guidelines For Hospices

This alert is also available in Adobe Acrobat format here. On July 21, 1999, the HHS Office of Inspector General ("OIG") published thirty pages of draft guidelines for hospices seeking to develop internal compliance programs to prevent and detect ...
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OIG Publishes Final Rule Concerning Exclusion of Indirect Provides

Recently, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (the "OIG") published its final rule concerning its authority to exclude Indirect Providers of health care items and services (the "Indirect Providers") from ...
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OIG Sets Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol

What do you do if, during your compliance activities, you discover an overpayment that needs to be disclosed to the government? The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services released its answer to this question ...
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Operational Policy Letter: Notice of Discharge and Medicare Appeal Rights

The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has been undergoing discussions with regard to our current policies concerning the Notice of Noncoverage (NONC) and the Important Message from Medicare which are currently in use. We understand and ...
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Operational Policy Letter: Transition from 1876 Risk Members to Medicare+Choice Plans

Any individual who was enrolled in a § 1876 risk plan effective December 1, 1998 or earlier and remained effective with the risk plan on December 31, 1998 automatically continued to be enrolled in the M+CO on January 1, 1999. This OPL provides ...
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Operational Policy Letter: Transition from 1876 Risk to Medicare+Choice Enrollment and Disenrollment Policies

As § 1876 risk plans fully transition to Medicare+Choice (M+C) plans, some adjustment in enrollment and disenrollment policies is necessary to accommodate the transition from § 1876 rules to M+C rules. Some of these transitional policies are covered ...
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OTC Labeling Requirements

On March17th the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued, amidst great fanfare, a regulation governing labels for over-the-counter drug products (OTCs).1 These new provisions will ultimately apply to all OTC drugs, whether they were approved under ...
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Painless Dental Practice Management?

Dentists, like physicians, face a myriad of administrative, operational and marketing challenges in managing and growing a successful practice. Not surprisingly, inspired by the success of the physician practice management companies that preceded ...
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Part 201 Civil Penalty Moratorium to End: State Actions Against Liable Property Owners and Operators Expected

June 5, 1997, marks the end of the moratorium on the assessment of civil penalties on owners and operators of contaminated properties who have failed to take actions to address known contamination they have caused. These liable parties could face ...
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