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Daniel J. Balk
Last Friday, President Trump signed into law the most comprehensive overhaul of the tax code in decades. Although benefiting for-profit organizations with a cut in the corporate tax rate ...
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Nicole S. Dermer
As the country prepares for President-elect Donald Trump's swearing in on January 20, the future of the healthcare industry remains uncertain.
With
Nicole S. Dermer
During his administration, President Barack Obama regularly used executive orders to enact policy.
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Laura Brenner,
John Kramp,
Guy Temple
On October 31, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a decision halting the merger of two large Illinois hospital systems, Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University HealthSystem.
President Obama signed into law the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act ("MACRA") on April 16, 2015. One year later, on April 27, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services ("DHHS") released a 962‑page proposed rule to begin implementing MACRA.
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John Kramp
On July 6, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission decided to dismiss its administrative complaint challenging Cabell Huntington Hospital's proposed acquisition of St. Mary's Medical Center in Huntington, West Virginia.
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Bradley M. Dennis,
Nicole S. Dermer
In 2011, sixindependent orthopedist groups combined their practices to form Keystone Orthopaedic Specialists ("Keystone").
With
Nicole S. Dermer,
Heather Fields
For the past few years, the Office of Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services has been reviewing Medicare payments to hospitals to determine compliance with selected billing requirements.
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Bradley M. Dennis
In December 2015, Wisconsin became the 12th state to join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (the "Compact").
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Nicole S. Dermer,
Heather Fields
Conventional wisdom has always been that physician employment arrangements were a less risky alternative to independent contractor arrangements.
With
Bradley M. Dennis,
Kristina Somers,
Sara Stellpflug
After a long, hard fight to create a workable property tax exemption for hospitals in Illinois, the Illinois Court of Appeals has struck down the statute providing exemption for hospitals...
With
Bradley M. Dennis
Nearly five years after the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 ("PPACA"), charitable hospitals covered by Internal Revenue Code ("IRC") section 501(c)(3)...
With
Nicole Rosen
The use of telemedicine as a cost-effective alternative to traditional in-person visits to providers is rising.
With
Nicole Rosen
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General recently released two companion reports examining the use of certain recommended fraud controls in electronic health records.
With
Christopher Kriva,
Nicole Rosen
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 seeks to drastically reduce this number by creating statebased and regulated marketplaces, "Exchanges", that will offer millions of qualified individuals and small employers access to affordable private health insurance coverage.
