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Feds Tell Employers to Give Young Adults Coverage
Health insurance organizations caught in the middle in suggestions by HHS and DOL. Self-insured employers should keep young adults up to age 26 on their parents’ health insurance plans before the September 23, 2010 deadline in the Affordable…
Continue reading...PPACA: The Fine Print Will Be in the Rules
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Compliance officers could see their programs turned into financial footballs. Health care reform may seem like yesterday’s news. However, now is when the real work begins for many of the major players in the health care industry in the face…
Continue reading...Health Reform Law Offers Hospices a Mixed Bag
Monday, May 17, 2010
$10M cut in Medicare reimbursements may trigger reduced services. Asbestosis Despite the hard-hitting $10 million decrease in Medicare reimbursements this year, hospice and palliative care facilities cling to the recently passed health care reform act for some hope. PPACA reduced…
Continue reading...Don’t Let Financial Ties to Manufacturers Create Legal Woes
Monday, May 10, 2010
Transparency of prescriber-supplier relationships is increasing. With the new health care reform law in place, the feds will soon be able to take a harder look at financial relationships between physicians and companies that make drugs, biologics, medical devices and…
Continue reading...PPACA Creates New Role for IRS, New Compliance Concerns for Providers
Monday, May 3, 2010
“Fine” for not carrying individual insurance could end up being record-keeping nightmare. Under the new health care reform law, the Internal Revenue Service appears to have a special role that will create new compliance requirements for patients, not providers or…
Continue reading...HHS Must Draft New Regs on Visitation, Advance Directives at Hospitals
Monday, April 26, 2010
Hospitals that receive federal dollars must report on treatment of LGBT patients, create new policies to allow designated visitors. Just in time for National Health Care Decisions Day — a national campaign that aims to encourage people to complete…
Continue reading...Latest HEAT Bust: Miami Man Admits to Fraudulent Testing Scheme
Monday, April 26, 2010
Conspiracy between workers and patients in a Detroit clinic cost Medicare nearly $5.4M. A resident of Miami, FL has conceded to submitting $7.42 million in false claims to Medicare in a fraudulent medical testing scheme, the Departments of Justice and…
Continue reading...HHS Warning: Beware of Insurance Scammers
Monday, April 26, 2010
No one should take advantage of the new health care reform law, says HHS chief. While many professionals in the health care industry worry over unintended or unpredictable costs brought on by the new reform laws, fraudsters are taking advantage…
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Monday, June 7, 2010
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