Newsletters

06.01.10

HITECH REVISITED: Achieving HITECH’s Goals for a High-Performing Health IT-Enabled Healthcare System

Manatt Health Solutions was recently commissioned by the California HealthCare Foundation, the Colorado Health Foundation, and the United Hospital Fund to provide a candid evaluation of where implementation of the historic Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act ...


04.16.10

New Exceptions to Federal Anti-Inducement Law Create Opportunities for Health Care Providers

Significant attention has been focused on provisions of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, H.R. 3590 (“PPACA”) that expand the definition of fraud and abuse and enhance the government’s ability to prosecute health care providers.


04.05.10

Congress Acts on the Stark Disclosure Dilemma

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, H.R. 3590 (“PPACA”).


03.08.10

HRSA’s Office of Pharmacy Affairs Releases Long-Awaited 340B Contract Pharmacy Guidelines

On March 5, 2010, the federal Office of Pharmacy Affairs (“OPA”) released new final guidelines for the utilization of contract pharmacies for the dispensing of drugs under the prescription drug discount program established under Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act (the ...


Digital Health, Provider and State Implications from CMS’ Advanced Primary Care Management Proposal

Over the past 10 years, providers have invested in infrastructure to bill CMS’s various existing standalone codes—chronic care management (CCM), transitional care management (TCM), principal care management (PCM), eConsult, eVisit and virtual check-in code sets.