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2012: Issue 1 – Focus on HIPAA/Privacy
- Uncertainty Regarding eRx Hardship Exemption Requests to Continue in 2012
- Is Your Research Data Safe? Aligning HIPAA and the Common Rule
- HIPAA Considerations in Evaluating Cloud Computing
- California (and Texas) Increase Privacy Requirements
- Texas (and California) Increase Privacy Requirements
- Getting Paid Faster and Easier: New HIPAA Electronic Transfer Standards Rule
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2011: Issue 7 – Focus on Antitrust
- Final ACO Antitrust Enforcement Statement Won’t Deter Procompetitive ACOs
- The Noerr-Pennington Exemption: Freedom to Stifle Impending Competition — Maybe
- DOJ Steps Up Antitrust Enforcement Against Health-Plan/Provider Restraints on Competition
- The FTC’s Interpretation of the State-Action Exemption
- Five Things Directors of Nonprofit Health Care Providers Can Learn from Lemington Home
- What Every Hospital Should Know Before Implementing a Mandatory Flu Shot Policy
- Participants in Medicare Part C and Part D May Now Be Considered Federal Contractors and Subcontractors
- Providers Benefit from False Claims Act’s First-to-File Rule
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2011: Issue 6 – Focus on Long Term Care
- Seeking Shelter During Uncertain Times: Assessing the Federal Quality Assurance Privilege
- Administrative, Actuarial and Regulatory Hurdles Are Too Much for the CLASS Act
- Maryland's Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form Delayed
- Consultant Pharmacist - Is Independence Necessary?
- Five Lessons Learned (the Hard Way?) for In House Counsel
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2011: Issue 5 – Focus on Fraud and Abuse
- OIG Ceases Exclusion Efforts Against Forrest Labs CEO – Not All Corporate Officers
- OIG Warns That Arrangements Between CPAP Suppliers and Sleep Labs Pose F&A Risks
- Online Referral Service Proposes to Charge for Services, Raises OIG Concerns
- Metadata Standards for EHRs: A Sneak Preview of Meaningful Use Stage 2?
- CMS Provides Guidance on the Elder Justice Act’s Reporting Requirements
- Are Local IRBs Going the Way of the Dodo? Historic Proposed Changes to the Common Rule
- The FTC’s Interpretation of the State-Action Exemption
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2011: Issue 4 - Focus on HIPAA/Privacy
- HIPAA Audits Are Coming: KPMG Contracted to Perform 150 Audits Through 2012
- Why You Need to Worry AGAIN about HIPAA: Seven Practical Tips in the New Electronic Age
- Breach Reporting Plans: Practical Preparation for the (Almost) Inevitable Breach
- Corrective Action Plans Can Mean Significant Compliance Monitoring Requirements
- UCLA Resolves Privacy and Security Rule Violations
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2011: Issue 3 – Focus on Antitrust
- Some Practical Lessons from the ProMedica Hospital Merger Decision
- Timing and Hold Separate Agreements in Mergers: When to Fold, Hold or Call
- Accountable Care Organizations: More Guidance, but at what Cost?
- Dominant Hospitals, Dominant Insurers, and Exclusionary Conduct
- Early Retiree Reinsurance Program Compliance – Seven Ounces of Prevention
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2011: Issue 2 – Focus on Long Term Care
- Compliance with the Elder Justice Act's Reporting Requirements: Cautionary Tactics in the Face of Continuing Uncertainty
- Final Rule Modifies Civil Money Penalties Process for Nursing Facilities
- Prior Regulatory Approval of DMEPOS Supplier Defeats FCA Action
- Update of Maryland’s Health Care Facility Licensing Regulations Under Way
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2011: Issue 1 – Focus on Fraud and Abuse
- First Settlement Under the Voluntary Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol
- Valuing Non-Competes: The Bradford Decision
- New Long-Term Care Facility Closure Notice Requirements Go Into Effect March 23rd
- Incentive Payments Available for Geriatric Medicine Services
