Policy guidance (the Policy) announced on March 1, 2010, by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) may have wide-ranging and possibly unintended effects on successor liability in transactions involving Medicaid providers.
New policy guidance may require assumption of “all liabilities” by new providers after a change of ownership, merger, or acquisition
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