By: Craig A. Phillips Member, Grand Rapids Office Phone: 616.336.1030email: cphillips@dickinsonwright.com With most vendors offering and pushing cloud computing solutions and offsite data backup, or guaranteeing offsite backup...
Read MoreBy Marki Stewart In a previous post, we analyzed the new Timeshare Arrangement exception to the Stark law that CMS proposed and went into effect on January 1, 2016. Here we give an example of how the new timeshare arrangement...
Read MoreBy Marki Stewart On July 15, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a series of rules that would create new exceptions to the Stark law, in addition to clarifying other provisions of the Stark law....
Read MoreBy Ralph Levy The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has traditionally paid health care providers separately for each of the individual services they furnish to beneficiaries for a single illness or course of...
Read MoreBy Rose Willis The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a new exception to the Physician Self-Referral Law (the “Stark Law”) intended to expand access to primary care and mental health services...
Read MoreBy Rose Willis Clinical laboratories will see significant changes to their Medicare payments for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests (CDLTs) starting January 1, 2017, but the basis for new payment rates will come from...
Read MoreBy Jessica L. Russell In 2011, CMS implemented the Accountable Care Organization (“ACO”) Shared Savings Program, which aims to promote increased savings for the Medicare program, improve health care quality, and create a more...
Read MoreBy Rodney D. Butler On February 3, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule that permits patients or their representatives to have direct access to the results of their lab tests. This...
Read MoreBy Rodney D. Butler A report published last week by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) demonstrated, in the words of CMS, “encouraging results” in the reduction of healthcare costs to Medicare and...
Read MoreBy Ralph Levy, Jr. The Internal Revenue Service recently concluded that recipients of incentive payments from CMS to utilize electronic health records must include the amounts received in gross income and that CMS must report...
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