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DHHS Affirms that EMTALA Does NOT Apply to Inpatients, February 2012
HIPAA Penalties are Real (and Real Serious): DHHS Imposes a $4.3 Million Fine for HIPAA Violations, March 2011
EEOC's Disability Regulations Have Changed: Has Your Risk Management Strategy?, May 2011
Accounting of Disclosures NPRM Also Would Require Accounting of Access, June 2011
The Rights of Patients to Visitors of Their Choice: CMS Expands the Meaning of "Immediate Family" and Through Regulation Requires Hospitals to Do the Same, June 2011
Is There a Statistician in The House? CMS Implements Its Predictive Modeling Program, July 2011
The ACO Final Rule: Significant Changes and Opportunities?, October 2011
Finding Meaning In "Meaningful Use": CMS Issues Proposed Rule, January 2010
The Health Care Reform Act: What Is Imminent and Immediate For Health Care Providers?, May 2010
Health Care Reform Law Provides Tax Credits and Grants for Certain Companies Engaged in Medical Research, June 2010
Changes in North Carolina's Peer Review Privilege: The Hospital Now Has the Burden to Establish the Confidentiality of Peer Review Documents, June 2010
The HITECH Proposed Rule, Practically Speaking: Comments, Please?, August 2010
The Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol: So Much For Guaranteed Leniency?, October 2010
Alert: New Medicare Secondary Payer Mandatory Reporting Requirements From CMS, March 2009
FTC Signals Rare Approval of Joint Contracting Activities Due to Clinical Integration, May 2009
Region C Recovery Audit Contractor ("RAC") Announces Issues Available For RAC Review, August 2009
North Carolina Revises Law Providing Exemption From Certificate Of Need Act For Long Term Care Facilities, August 2009
HIPAA GOES "HITECH": Privacy Considerations Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, September 2009
Office Of Inspector General Releases Fiscal Year 2010 Work Plan, October 2009
Change to Unemployment Insurance Laws Provides Narrow Window For Private Non-Profits to Save Money in 2009, December 2009
Recovery Audit Contractors Are Coming-Part I, March 2008
Litigation Impacts of Never Events, May 2008
Court Limits Duty Of Hospitals In Responding To Credentialing Inquiries, June 2008
All Signatures Are Not Created Equal-The Last Word?, August 2008
Health Care Providers and the Red Flag Regulations, October 2008
Recovery Audit Contractors Are Coming-Part II, October 2008
2009 CMS MPFS Final Rule - IDTFs, November 2008
Employee Education and the False Claims Act, February 2007
CMS Final Rule: Restraints and Seclusion, February 2007
The ADA Clarified: The EEOC Issues New Guidelines for Health Care Employers, March 2007
Balancing Act: Privacy Rights of Convicted Sex Offenders, June 2007
Legislative Update: New N.C. Law Governing Release Of PHI, July 2007
CMS Releases New Clinical Trial Policy, July 2007
Tax-Exempt Hospitals Under Fire: Part I - Latest Shots from Senator Grassley, August 2007
Tax-Exempt Hospitals Under Fire: Part II - Proposed New Form 990 Even More Burdensome, August 2007
Physician Law Note: Stark III: Much Ado About (Almost) Nothing, September 2007
Hospital Law Note: Stark II Phase III Final Rule, September 2007
No Smoking Ban Now In Effect For Numerous Long Term Care Facilities And Others, October 2007
Session Law 2007-541: Voluntary Arbitration of Medical Malpractice Suits, November 2007
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