Client Newsletters Archive

Volume 14 | February, 2007

•  DPH Issues Final HIV Reporting Regulations
•  President Bush Proposes Substantial Medicare and Medicaid Reductions
•  IRS Proposes Good Governance Practices for 501(c)(3) Organizations
•  OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Regarding Free Acute Dialysis Treatment Services
•  Massachusetts Legislature Expands Definition of Medical Peer Review Committees
•  NSTC to Develop Research Compliance Guidelines

•  CMS Revises Hospital Conditions of Participation
•  HHS Health Information Technology Regulations Now in Effect
•  OIG Issues Advisory Opinion on Hospital Gainsharing Arrangement
•  January 1st Deadline Approaching for Compliance with Deficit Reduction Act and Amendment  to the Stark Law
•  AHA Submits Community Benefit Report to IRS
•  Reminder on Reporting of Diseases Dangerous to the Public Health
•  New Hospital Discharge Requirements Released by CMS

•  Massachusetts Court Declines to Adopt Corporate Negligence Theory Against Hospital
•  CMS Revises Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
•  OIG Issues Work Plan for FY 2007
•  NLRB Rules Charge Nurses are Supervisors Under NLRA
•  Hospital�s Property Tax Exemption Revoked
•  OIG Permits Charitable Organization to Provide Assistance to Needy Medicare Beneficiaries
•  President Bush Issues Executive Order Promoting High Quality Health Care

•  NLRB Restricts Nurses' Right to Wear Union-Related Buttons
•  CMS Issues Guidance on "Parking" of EMS Patients in Hospitals
•  Senate Finance Committee Asks IRS to Increase Its Scrutiny of Tax-Exempt Hospitals
•  Fifth Circuit Reverses Tax Court Decision Regarding Intermediate Tax Sanctions
•  Physicians Denied HCQIA Immunity
•  JCAHO Issues 2007 National Patient Safety Goals
•  SJC Rules Medical Malpractice Expert Should Not Have Been Sanctioned

•  Board of Registration in Medicine Proposes New Regulations
•  IRS Sends Out "Compliance-Check Letters" to Hospitals
•  OIG Announces New Self-Disclosure Protocol
•  Massachusetts Court Seeks to Expand Duty to Warn for Physicians
•  Massachusetts Senate Approves Licensing of Pharmaceuticals
•  CMS Proposes New Discharge Requirements for Hospitals