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The Obamacare “play or pay” rules: a practical approach

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2013

The IRS recently released new proposed regulations to implement the Shared Responsibility or "Play or Pay" provisions of Health Care Reform. The

Washington Supreme Court limits public access to hospital privileging, peer review documents

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2013

Public hospital districts may not disclose certain records created during closed-door meetings about hospital privileging decisions, the Washington

OIG special fraud alert labels physician-owned distributorships (PODs) as “inherently suspect”

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 22 2013

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General (the "OIG") issued a Special Fraud Alert ("Alert") on March 26

What you don’t know about California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act might hurt you!

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2013

California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act ("the CMIA" or "the Act") is codified in California Civil Code 56 et seq.,i and is intended

OIG issues revised Self-Disclosure Protocol

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2013

In recent years Congress, law enforcement, administrative agencies, and the courts have all found ways to encourage the health care industry to

Court ruling may subject hospitals and health care providers to OFCCP regulation

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 18 2013

Hospitals, health care providers, and managers of other businesses across the country may be surprised to learn that under a new federal court ruling

Time to take advantage of HIPAA Omnibus Rule's "good news": fundraising, research, and student immunization records

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 2 2013

The Omnibus Rule went into effect on March 26, 2013. While covered entities and business associates have until Sept. 23, 2013, to comply with new

When food production leads to prosecution

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • March 6 2013

Over the last few weeks, two big stories have made headlines in the food industry. Beginning in early February, news media across Europe began

Deadline approaches for reporting 2012 small breaches

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 25 2013

HIPAA covered entities have through Friday, March 1, 2013, to report small breaches of unsecured protected health information that occurred in

New omnibus rule released: HIPAA puts on more weight

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 23 2013

On Jan. 17, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the long-awaited "Omnibus Rule," which amends the administrative