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02.05.15

Long-Term Care and the OIG Work Plan: As HHS Sharpens its Focus, Providers Should Set Their Sights ...

In the fall of 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General released its 2015 Work Plan, which highlighted HHS's compliance focus areas in the upcoming year.As in past years, areas of focus cover a range of providers that are reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid and ...


01.22.15

California's New Energy Efficiency Challenge

After being sworn in to an unprecedented fourth term, California Governor Jerry Brown just recently revealed an ambitious new plan to address the impacts of climate change over the next 15 years. Among the Governor's bold climate initiatives is a plan to double the efficiency of ...


01.21.15

Major League Baseball's Odd Precedent May Doom NCAA Plaintiffs

The antitrust case brought by the City of San Jose against Major League Baseball, which was decided against San Jose on January 15, 2015, has much in common with another case pending before the same appellate court: O'Bannon v. NCAA. Major League Baseball's victory, based on U.S. Supreme Court ...


01.20.15

Governor Brown's 'Big Ideas' for Energy & Climate

Governor Brown was sworn into office earlier this month and gave his fourth inaugural address, which also doubled as his State of the State (a rare double feature). Though he touched on a variety of other proposals, the Governor kept his laser focused on climate and energy issues. He proposed three ...


01.16.15

Sports Precedents Die Hard In 9th Circ.

Major League Baseball struck out San Jose, California, in a case decided by the Ninth Circuit on Jan. 15, 2015. San Jose's challenge of MLB's rule that three-quarters of the teams must vote for a franchise relocation failed in connection with the attempt of San Jose to be the new home of the ...


01.12.15

This Year Holds Promise for Post-Acute Care

Hospitals traditionally have viewed a patient's discharge as the endpoint of their care responsibilities. Little attention was paid to the next steps in treatment once the patient left the building. Movie scenes showing miraculously cured patients waving cheerful good-byes to their hospital ...


01.06.15

Court Stops New Jersey's Effort to Legalize Sports Betting

A New Jersey federal judge last month rejected New Jersey's latest attempt to legalize sports betting, ruling that a state statute that repealed New Jersey's long-standing prohibition on sports betting at casinos and racetracks violates the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act ...


01.05.15

The Future Of Digital Media In 2015

2014 proved to be a transformational year for content-driven digital media and investment (a new "golden age" of content I predicted for TechCrunch at the beginning of this year). For the first time, that investment (much of it SoCal-based) finally took its rightful place in the sun -even in the ...


01.04.15

5 Predictions for Digital Video in 2015

2014 proved to be a transformational year for digital-first video and the YouTube economy. The short-form video world essentially "grew up" and traditional media, major brands, and even previously cynical Northern California investors took notice.


12.31.14

Creative Ways to Put Off the Inevitable

Like-kind exchanges under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code are an excellent way to defer recognition of taxable gain on the sale of real property.   In these transactions, a seller of real property assigns the purchase agreement to an exchange accommodator before the ...