In this Issue
From the Chair
Guide to Terms
Welcome
Ober|Kaler in Print
OIG
Advisory Opinion on Sale of Ownership Interests Raises Questions
E-prescribing and Electronic Health Records Protection
Physician Investments in Medical Device Industry
OIG Advisory Opinions
CMS
New Enrollment Regulations: Protect Your Current Medicare Participation
PHARMA
Behind the Scenes: Drug Company Patent Infringement Settlements
Hospitals
FY 2007 Wage Index and the Occupational Mix Adjustment
Medical Education Under Medicare: Confusion over Didactic Time
DME
Final DMEPOS Quality Standards
Self-Referral
CMS Plan Focuses on Physician Ownership in Specialty Hospitals e
FCA
OIG Guidelines for Evaluating State False Claims Acts
Rule 9(b) Does Not Require Pleading of Specific Claims
Business
Heed Insurance Coverage in Constructing and Renovating Health Care Facilities
Physician Focus
Planning to Charge a Yearly "Overhead" Fee? Proceed with Caution
Health Law Group
Sanford V. Teplitzky, Co-Chair
S. Craig Holden, Co-chair
Alan J. Arville
Melinda B. Antalek
William E. Berlin
Christi J. Braun
Kristin C. Cilento
Marc K. Cohen
Thomas W. Coons
John J. Eller
Joshua J. Freemire
Leslie Demaree Goldsmith
Lindsay E. Greenwood
Carel T. Hedlund
Leonard C. Homer
Thomas K. Hyatt
Julie E. Kass
Paul W. Kim
John F. Lessner
William T. Mathias
Robert E. Mazer
Carol M. McCarthy, Ph.D.
John J. Miles
Christine M. Morse
Patrick K. O'Hare
A. Thomas Pedroni, Jr.
Martha Purcell Rogers
Laurence B. Russell
Donna J. Senft
Ray M. Shepard
Steven R. Smith
Howard L. Sollins
E. John Steren
Chiarra-May Stratton
Emily H. Wein
James B. Wieland
Editorial Assistant:
Michele Vicente, Paralegal
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Welcome.
 With this issue of the Health Law Alert, we welcome two new attorneys to Ober|Kaler’s Health Law Group.
Thomas Pedroni brings nearly two decades of health care experience to the firm with a practice that includes health care institutions, physicians and dentists, health information technology, insurance, risk management and alternative risk financing. Prior to joining Ober|Kaler, Tom chaired the Health Care Practice Group at Hodes, Pessin & Katz, P.A. and served as Managing Attorney at Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation.
A frequent writer and lecturer on health care legal issues, Tom is active in the American Health Lawyers Association and the American and Maryland Societies for Health Care Risk Management. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law (J.D., with honors, 1979) and The Johns Hopkins University (B.A., with high honors, 1976).
Kristin C. Cilento joins the Group as an associate handling fraud and abuse, transactional, reimbursement, and licensing and certification matters. Before arriving at Ober|Kaler, Kristin worked as an extern in the Maryland Veterans Caucus of the Maryland General Assembly and as an intern to the Honorable John Philip Miller, Circuit Court for Baltimore City.
She is a graduate of James Madison University (B.S., magna cum laude, 2003) and the University of Maryland School of Law (J.D., 2006) where she served as Staff Editor of the Journal of Healthcare Law.
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