Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced historic updates to the the Stark Law, also known as the Physician Self-Referral Law. CMS acknowledged that federal regulations related to physician self-referrals have become outdated as the United States’ healthcare...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 11
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division (the “Court”) granted in part and denied in part defendants’ motion to dismiss, finding that allegations of individual misconduct may not be sufficient in a pleading of racial discrimination...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 10
The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Shreveport Division (the “Court”) denied a motion for summary judgment, finding that discharging a patient whose condition thereafter materially deteriorates may be a violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active...
The #MeToo movement has encouraged a wide range of industries that once looked at sexual harassment as “part of the job” to start taking steps to improve working conditions. Healthcare is among those industries that are not only finally recognizing the extent of the problem but looking for...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires healthcare employees to use or share only the “minimum necessary” information they “need to know” to do their jobs. For example, a coder needs to look at the entire record of a patient’s hospital stay to apply all the...
