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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Privacy and security of your medical records: The New Number

The United States government is now discussing how to deal with the computerization of medical records. The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics has been given the responsibility to possibly implement a Unique Individual Identifier ...
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Private Contracts with Practitioners Who Do Not Provide Services Through the Medicare Program

This is a test program for 390,000 eligible Medicare beneficiaries. You choose a Medicare Medical Savings Account (MSA) Health Policy-a health insurance policy with a high deductible. Medicare pays the premium for the Medicare MSA Health Policy and ...
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Procedure for Obtaining Certificates for Export of Foods and Cosmetics

The Certificate of Export will generally indicate that the product(s) is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and that they are not at this time the subject of any enforcement action by the FDA. Such certificates are not guarantees ...
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Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly: Questions and Answers

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Proposed Stark II Regulations Affect Healthcare Arrangements

Administration (HCFA) proposed the long-awaited Stark II regulations governing physician self-referrals. These regulations, when finalized, will supersede the earlier Stark I regulations that applied only to clinical lab services. As currently ...
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Proposed VA Rules Broaden Authority To Purchase Health Care Services, Ease Procurement Requirements

In 1996, Congress enacted the Veterans' Health Care Eligibility Reform Act, which, among other things, authorized the Secretary of the Veterans Administration (VA) to enter into agreements with health care providers (including health care plans ...
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Prospective Payment System Final Rule Benefits Device, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Industries

On April 7, 2000, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) published its final regulation (65 FR 18,434 et seq.) for the hospital outpatient prospective payment system (PPS) for Medicare beneficiaries. The PPS was mandated by the Balanced ...
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Prospective Payment System Final Rule For Hospital Outpatient Services Released-April 2000

The Health Care Financing Administration ("HCFA") published its final regulation regarding the outpatient prospective payment system ("PPS") for Medicare beneficiaries on April 7. The PPS was mandated by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 ("BBA") and ...
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Prospective Payment System Final Rule Implementation Delayed

Shortly after the June 2000 issue of Update went to print, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) announced that the effective date for the implementation of the hospital outpatient prospective payment system (PPS) was being delayed for one ...
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Protecting Nursing Home Residents from Eviction

The costs of nursing home care for the elderly are such that over one-half of all nursing home residents at some point exhaust their assets and require the assistance of Medicaid coverage. Medicaid patients are generally less profitable for the ...
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