Showing 44 posts from 2012.
IRS Focusing on Employment Tax Compliance
Recently, health care organizations have been inquiring about employment tax issues, and more specifically, the proper tax classification of their workers. Questions include whether to classify medical directors, such as hospice medical directors, as employees versus independent contractors. Read More ›
Categories: Employment, Tax
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Agencies Issue Regulations on Summary of Benefits and Coverage Requirements
The Departments of the Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services (collectively, the "Departments") recently published the final regulation (the "Regulation") with regard to the Summary of Benefits and Coverage ("SBC") requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA"). The Regulation implements certain disclosure requirements in order to help individuals and health plans better understand their medical coverage as well as other coverage options. Many liken the SBC to the summary plan description for retirement plans. Read More ›
Categories: Employee Benefits, Employment, Insurance, Regulatory, Retirement
Top 10 Health Care Law Topics for 2012 Revealed
The current issue of AHLA Connections, which is published by the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), features a list of the top ten issues affecting the health law field in 2012. The AHLA Connections “hot topic” list includes issues that our clients are raising with us. We have covered several of these topics in previous newsletters and blogs and we plan to discuss more in the upcoming months.
Here is the AHLA’s top-ten list: Read More ›
Categories: Compliance, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Exchange, Regulatory
Recap from the Health Law Institute
On March 8 and 9, 2012, the members of Foster Swift's Health Care Law Group attended the 18th Annual Health Law Institute. This two-day institute, which is co-sponsored by the Institute for Continuing Legal Education and the Health Care Law Section of the Michigan State Bar, focused on recent legal developments in health care law. Specific topics addressed at this year's Health Law Institute included: Read More ›
Categories: Compliance, Fraud & Abuse, Regulatory
OIG Alert – Physicians May Be Liable for False Claims Submitted by Entities Receiving Reassigned Medicare Payments
The Office of Inspector General ("OIG") for the Department of Health and Human Services recently issued an alert, which warned that “physicians who reassign their right to bill the Medicare program and receive Medicare payments by executing the CMS-855R application may be liable for false claims submitted by entities to which they reassigned their Medicare benefits.” The OIG stressed that physicians remain liable for claims submitted using their provider numbers, even when the claims for services are submitted by another party under a contractual arrangement. The potential for liability also exists for other types of practitioners who enter into reassignment agreements. Read More ›
Categories: Billing/Payment, Compliance, Employment, Fraud & Abuse, Medicare/Medicaid, Physicians
Supreme Court to Hear Challenges to Health Care Reform Law
In late 2011, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it would take up four issues regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA"). The Court is expected to hear oral arguments in late March of 2012 and provide a decision in June of 2012.
Three of the four issues to be reviewed by the Court center around PPACA's Individual Mandate. The Individual Mandate (also known as the minimum coverage provision) requires that, beginning in 2014, individuals who fail to maintain a minimum level of health insurance coverage for themselves and their dependents pay a penalty, calculated in part on the basis of the individual's household income as reported on the individual's federal income tax return. This is likely the most controversial provision of PPACA.
The four issues to be considered by the Court are as follows: Read More ›
Categories: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Exchange, Regulatory
Sign Up for Foster Swift's Health Care Law Newsletter
If you are already a subscriber to Foster Swift's health care law blog, you might be interested in Foster Swift's Health Care Law E-News as well. These newsletters provide an in-depth discussion on specific issues that are of interest to those in the health care industry. See what the latest Health Care Law E-News has to offer. Read More ›
Categories: Health Care Reform, Regulatory
Massage Therapist Licensure Soon to be Mandatory
Licensure of Massage Therapists will become mandatory in Michigan in the near future. Proposed rules related to the requirements of such licensure were recently published in the Michigan Register. The actual licensure requirement will become effective two years from the effective date of the final rules (which will likely be published later in 2012). Read More ›
Categories: Licensing, Regulatory
House of Representatives Votes to Repeal Part of PPACA
On Wednesday, February 2nd, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure to repeal the CLASS Act. A similar repeal measure is pending in the U.S. Senate.
The CLASS Act is a heavily criticized portion of the health care reform law. CLASS, or Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, is a national, voluntary insurance program that is intended to offer working individuals some protection against the cost of paying for long-term care. Individuals who pay into the program for at least 5 years and who were employed during at least 3 of those 5 years would, if ever needed, receive a daily cash benefit of at least $50 per day to purchase services and support necessary to remain independent. For example, CLASS would cover home health care, adult day care, home modifications, respite care, transportation services, and the like. Read More ›
Categories: Health Care Reform, Insurance
Make Sure you Know Who's Talking about Your Company!
In the age of instant access to online information, it is essential for a business to know what others are saying about it - both good and bad. For example, a physician will want to confirm the glowing review of a recent article is properly acknowledged on the Internet but also that a negative patient comment is immediately refuted or deleted. Read More ›
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Best Lawyers® 2021
Congratulations to the attorneys of the Health Care practice group at Foster Swift Collins & Smith, PC for their inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America 2021 edition. Firm-wide, 44 lawyers were listed. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation and as lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Health Care practice group members listed in Best Lawyers are as follows:
- Jennifer B. Van Regenmorter, Holland
To see the full list of Foster Swift attorneys listed in Best Lawyers 2021, click here.