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CMS issues final regulations clarifying the 36-month change of ownership rule for home health agencies

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 3 2010

On January 1, 2010, new regulations at 42 CFR 424.550 governing changes of ownership of home health agencies went into effect

Some new import safety sheriffs in town: US federal agencies - in addition to CBP - increase enforcement of import safety laws

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 11 2010

Recent comments from US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) officials, as well as import enforcement actions by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), indicate that importers should expect product safety issues to be a principal area of enforcement for the foreseeable future

Selection of Levin as chairman signals enhanced Ways and Means Committee role

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2010

The selection of veteran legislator Sander Levin, D-Mich., as the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, succeeding the embattled Charles Rangel, D-NY, on its surface suggests a high degree of continuity in the chief tax writing committee

CMS outlines its vision of ACOs and the Shared Savings Program

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 5 2011

Last Thursday the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the much-anticipated Shared Savings Program proposed rule, intended to encourage the development of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) as provided for in Section 1899 of the Affordable Care Act

New York district court rejects quality-of-care false certification theory premised on non-compliance with ESRD conditions of coverage

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 11 2011

In January, the US District Court for the Northern District of New York dismissed a False Claims Act (FCA) case brought by a whistleblower against Dialysis Clinic Inc. (DCI

Relaunching of the CMS Innovation Center

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2011

On March 21, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (the Innovation Center) relaunched its website:

New markets: smartgrid and e-health

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 28 2011

As stated above, at its November 30 Open Meeting, the FCC will consider whether four sets of frequencies between 413 MHz and 457 MHz can be used by Medical Micropower Networks (MMNS) that link sensors implanted in patients who suffer from various forms of paralysis

Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases proposed rule on Medicare Part D revisions for the 2013 plan year

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 11 2011

On October 11, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking titled “Proposed Changes to the Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs for Contract Year 2013 and Other Proposed Changes: Considering Changes to the Conditions of Participation for Long Term Care Facilities” (the “Proposed Rule”) in the Federal Register

Solving the MSP dilemma: a strategy for health care providers to avoid exposure under the Medicare Secondary Payer statute

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 3 2011

The Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) statute was originally enacted by Congress in 1980 to reduce federal health care costs

Maine repeals laws mandating price, marketing cost, and clinical trial reporting by pharmaceutical manufacturers

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 26 2011

On July 8, 2011, Governor Paul LePage of Maine signed into law LD 719 titled “An Act to Make Certain Prescription Drug Disclosure Laws Consistent with Federal Law”