Holland & Knight Health Dose: March 7, 2023

Holland & Knight Health Doseis an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector.

This week’s topics include:

Congress This Week: President to Release FY 2024 Budget Request
Healthcare Workforce RFI: Responses Due March 20, 2023
Ways and Means Republicans Release Oversight Priorities
Senate Advances ASPE Health Nominee
Bipartisan Pushback on the DEA’s Newly Proposed Rule on Telehealth Policies
House Oversight Launches […]

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CMS’s Administrative Simplification Rule Aims To Increase Efficiency And Standardization For Health Care Attachments

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), recently issued a  proposed rule to adopt standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) for “health care attachment” transactions (the “Proposed Rule”). The Proposed Rule would implement requirements of HIPAA’s administrative simplification regulations, which are intended to support healthcare claims and prior authorization transactions while also introducing a standard format for […]

By | March 8th, 2023 ||

Preservation Of Indemnity Claims Between Healthcare Providers

Indiana law is well-established that a hospital may be liable for the actions of its independent contractor physicians under an apparent or ostensible agency theory unless the hospital provides the patient with written meaningful notice at the time of admission that it is not the provider of care and that the care is provided by a physician who is an independent contractor and not subject to the control and supervision of the hospital. Sword v […]

By | March 30th, 2022 ||