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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...Impact of the New Health Care Reform Law Spares No One
Monday, May 3, 2010
Payers and insurance companies are only a few of the organizations with new compliance demands. The new health care reform law may have a huge impact on how payers and insurers conduct compliance requirements for businesses, according to a new…
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…
Continue reading...How the PPACA Affects Your Practice Now
Monday, April 12, 2010
Last month, the president signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law to much fanfare. Although most of the law’s 2,390 pages were not specifically related to Medicare, some of the bill does pertain to Part B. Read on to…
Continue reading...New Health Care Reform Law Alters Stark “In-Office” Exception
Thursday, April 8, 2010
The new health care reform laws are on the books, and physicians should be aware that some of the exceptions to the Stark law have changed. One change concerns how to qualify for the “in-office exception,” which is addressed by…
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Monday, June 7, 2010
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