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Bringing sunlight to healthcare pricing: the CMS release of hospital charge data

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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May 16 2013

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once said that "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." The release of charges billed by some 3,337

Novel “bad faith admission” EMTALA theory survives motion to dismiss

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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May 2 2013

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently denied Contra Costa Regional Medical Center's (CCRMC) motion to dismiss

Physician recruitment agreement -- active medical staff privilege requirement upheld

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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March 7 2013

Health Management Associates' University Medical Center (UMC) recruited Kevin Dennis to Lebanon, Tennessee under a physician recruitment agreement

Too big to exclude; too much wrongdoing to ignore

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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February 21 2013

A 2007 audit initiated by a Medicare Program Safeguard Contractor (PSC) discovered that a North Carolina provider had a high incidence of inpatient

Physician Payment Sunshine Rule finalized; let the sun shine in; payment reports flow

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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February 7 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published the final rule implementing the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act

Home not-so-sweet home - another medical repatriation case

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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January 24 2013

A recent decision by the court of appeals in Iowa has found that Iowa Methodist Medical Center did not falsely imprison two alien patients when it

CMS provides guidance for amending patient medical records

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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January 10 2013

CMS recently released a transmittal providing instructions to contractors on acceptable methods for providers to amend, correct and incorporate delayed

Shoot, we forfeited our corporate charter - big HIPAA penalty to individual owners

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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September 27 2012

Uplift Medical, P.C. (Uplift) failed to provide forty-one individuals with timely access to their medical records and failed to cooperate with an HHS investigation of complaints regarding the company's noncompliance with HIPAA

Stark Law allows physicians to be paid for doing nothing

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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September 27 2012

As part of its plan to establish an open heart surgery program, St. Luke Hospitals, Inc. (St. Luke) sought a certificate of need (CON) and entered into an agreement with a group of surgeons to provide professional administrative coverage and clinical services, including provision of a full-time medical director, cardiac surgeon and on-call surgery physician, for $800,000 per year

Above market lease results in $16.5m fine

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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September 27 2012

HCA, Inc. has agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle allegations arising under the federal Stark Law and False Claims Act

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