By 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 (the “NPP Recruitment Exception”). This exception would permit hospitals, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics (RHCs) to …
HHS’S New Anti-Discrimination Regulation Proposal Explained – Part 2
By Keith C. Dennen This is the second part in a two-part series about the HHS’s proposed anti-discrimination regulations Gender Identity. Another area addressed in the regulations is “gender identity,” which refers to an individual’s “internal sense of gender, which may be different from that individual’s sex assigned at birth.” The proposed regulations seek to …
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HHS’S New Anti-Discrimination Regulation Proposal, Explained
By Keith C. Dennen This is the first part in a two-part series about the HHS’s proposed anti-discrimination regulations. In September, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released proposed anti-discrimination regulations that, if adopted, change the playing field in which physicians and other healthcare providers practice. These regulations are significant because: They apply …
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