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2012

DHHS Affirms that EMTALA Does NOT Apply to Inpatients, February 2012

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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


2007

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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