Client Newsletters

Volume 21 | June, 2008

•  DPH Provides Guidance on Serious Reportable Events
•  Attorney General’s Office Issues Advisory Opinion on Independent Contractor Classification and Employment Laws
•  OCR Releases HIPAA Privacy Enforcement Data
•  CMS Announces Bundled Payment Demonstration Project for Hospitals
•  Massachusetts Medical Society Files Suit Over Physician Tiering Program
•  IRS Releases Draft Instructions for Redesigned Form 990
  
•  OIG Issues Advisory Opinion on Software Licensing Arrangement Between Physicians and Non-Profit Hospital Corporation
  

•  CMS 2009 IPPS Proposed Rule: Changes Proposed to Stark Law, EMTALA and Hospital-Acquired Conditions
•  Final Regulations Issued for IRS Intermediate Tax Sanctions
•  Massachusetts DPH Proposes Amendments to Determination of Need Regulations
•  CMS Issues Final E-Prescribing Rule
•  IRS Refines Position on Corporate Governance
•  OIG Amends Self-Disclosure Protocol
  
•  First Circuit Rules EMTALA Covers Patient in Ambulance En Route to Hospital
  

•  OIG Reviews Prompt Pay Discounts
•  CMS Sets Limits for Non-Monetary Compensation and Medical Staff Incidental Benefits for 2008
•  HHS Proposes Rule Implementing Patient Safety Act
•  OIG Issues Advisory Opinions Approving Certain Gainsharing Arrangements
•  HIPAA Security Audits - OIG and CMS: Being Prepared for Possible Review by Two Enforcement Agencies
•  CMS Issues New Stark Law FAQs
  
•  April 1st Deadline Approaching for Tamper-Resistant Medicaid Prescriptions
  

•  SJC Expands Physician Liability
•  Massachusetts Legislature Receives "Doctor Gratuity Reporting" Bill
•  CMS Proposes Additional E-Prescribing Standards
•  IRS Announces Whistleblower Procedure for Tax Law Violations
•  Congressional Oversight Committee Examines Executive Pay and Compensation Consultants
•  Lawmakers Introduce Bills to Encourage Physicians to Implement E-Prescribing
  

•  CMS Issues Stark Law Phase III Regulations
•  Physician Payment Sunshine Act to be Filed in Congress
•  CMS Revises Hospital CoP for Laboratory Services
•  CMS Issues HIPAA Security Guidance
•  JCAHO Launches VAD Certification Program
  

•  Senate Issues Draft Report on Non-Profit Hospital Reforms
•  IRS Releases Interim Report on Hospital Compliance Project
•  CMS Proposes to Eliminate E-Prescribing Computer-Generated Fax Exemption
•  JCAHO Announces 2008 Patient Safety Goals
•  CMS Proposes Revisions to Medicare Clinical Trial Policy
•  IRS Issues Additional Guidance on Health IT Subsidy Arrangements

•  SJC Revises Protocol for Inspection of Privileged Records
•  GME Payment Change Finalized
•  Revised Interpretive Guidelines Issued for Informed Consent
•  CMS Extends Deadline for Phase III Rule of Stark Law
•  CMS Issues Guidance on Emergency Services Requirements for Hospitals
•  HHS Delegates Subpoena Authority to OCR for HIPAA Privacy Investigations