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Sonnenschein Health Care Of Interest News
Sonnenschein Health Care Of Interest News

• OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Approving Certain Part Time Physician Employment Arrangements
  12-15-2008 -
• HHS-OCR Publishes HIPAA Privacy Rule Guidance As Part of the Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information.
  12-15-2008 -
• OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Approving Gainsharing Arrangement Between a Hospital and Cardiology and Radiology Groups Based on Cost Reduction Measures for Cardiac Catheterization Procedures
  12-08-2008 -
• HHS and Department of Education Issue Joint Guidance on Application of HIPAA and FERPA to Student Health Records
  11-25-2008 -
• HHS Publishes Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 Final Rule
  11-21-2008 -
• OIG Posts New Review Letters Regarding New Jersey and Wisconsin's State False Claims Laws
  11-12-2008 -
• CMS Issues Final Rule for Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2009
  10-30-2008 -
• CMS Implements New Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program
  10-30-2008 -
• OIG Approves Medical Center's Waiver of EMS Transportation Cost Sharing Amounts for Patients Whose Cost Sharing Amounts Will Be Paid by the County
  10-29-2008 -
• OIG Issues Report Evaluating CMS' Oversight and Enforcement of the HIPAA Security Rule
  10-27-2008 -
• FTC Issues Non-Enforcement Policy for Red Flag Rule for Six Months
  10-22-2008 -
• OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Approving the Provision of Financial Assistance to Cover Cost-Sharing Obligations Associated with Outpatient Drug Treatment Owed by Certain Financially Needy Medicare or Medicaid Patients
  10-21-2008 -
• CMS Issues Additional Guidance on Marketing Rules to Part D and Medicare Advantage Plans
  10-17-2008 -
• OIG Approves of Hospital Sharing Performance-Based Compensation Received from Private Insurer with Physician-Owned Entity
  10-14-2008 -
• OIG Approves Gainsharing Arrangement Between Hospital and Cardiology Groups
  10-14-2008 -
• CMS Announces New Steps to Prevent Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Medicare
  10-06-2008 -
• OIG Publishes Workplan for Fiscal Year 2009
  10-01-2008 -
• OIG Issues Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Nursing Facilities
  09-29-2008 -
• CMS Issues Guidance Regarding Medicare Payment for Routine Costs in Clinical Trials
  09-29-2008 -
• OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Approving an Arrangement Where a Newly Formed Legal Entity Would Provide Purely Administrative Insurance Preauthorization Processing and Submission Services for Various Radiology and Imaging Centers
  09-26-2008 -
• OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Approving the Waiver of Cost-Sharing Obligations for Protocol-Required Clinical Services and Oxygen Therapy Provided to Medicare Beneficiaries Who Participate in the Long-Term Oxygen Treatment Trial Sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and CMS
  09-24-2008 -
• House and Senate Approve Mental Health Parity Bills
  09-23-2008 -
• HHS-OCR Issues HIPAA Guidance Regarding Communicating with Patients' Family, Friends and Others Involved in Patients' Care
  09-17-2008 -
• DOJ and FTC Support Repeal of CON Laws
  09-15-2008 -
• OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Reaffirming Its Approval of a Patient Assistance Program to Provide Grants to Financially-Needy Patients Suffering From Specific Diseases to Defray Costs of Prescription Drug Therapies
  09-04-2008 -
• DOJ Revises Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations
  08-28-2008 -
• OIG Finds that Medicare May Have Overpaid $9 Million to Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities During Transition to PPS in 2005
  08-27-2008 -
• OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Concluding That Provision of Space, Equipment and Personnel Through Block Leases May Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute
  08-26-2008 -
• U.S. District Court Finds Intergovernmental Transfer for Medicaid Program Does Not Violate the False Claims Act
  08-25-2008 -
• CMS Announces Addition of Quality Measures to Hospital Compare Website
  08-20-2008 -
• IRS Releases Redesigned Form 990, Return of Organizations Exempt from Income Tax
  08-19-2008 -
• NCQA Releases New Disease Management Quality Measures for Public Comment
  08-18-2008 -
• HHS Proposes to Adopt ICD-10 Code Sets to Replace ICD-9 Code Sets
  08-15-2008 -
• HHS Proposes Adoption of the Updated X12 Standard, Version 5010, and the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs Standard, Version D.0, for Electronic Transactions
  08-15-2008 -
• Massachusetts Law Limits Pharmaceutical Companies' Gifts to Health Care Practitioners
  08-11-2008 -
• OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Approving Gainsharing Arrangement Between Hospital and Physicians
  08-07-2008 -
• Complaint Filed Against Three California Hospitals For Providing Unnecessary Medical Services to Homeless People and Fraudulently Billing Medicare and Medicaid
  08-06-2008 -