For your convenience, below are links to our 2011 Health Care newsletters and a few of the related benefits newsletters of interest to those in the health care industry, just in case you missed them. Please contact the attorneys listed in the newsletters for further information, or call Jay Hardcastle (615- 252-2386), chair of the Health Care Practice Group, or Jon Skeeters (615-252-2320), vice chair of the group, for assistance. We enjoyed serving our clients and friends in 2011 and look forward to another interesting year.

11/30/11

New Audit Program for HIPAA Privacy & Security Compliance Changes Enforcement Landscape for Covered Entities

Benefits & Health Care Alert

11/29/2011

CMS Finally Relaxes ASC Rule on Timing of Notice of Patients' Rights Information

Health Care Alert

10/7/2011

Reminder: October 14, 2011 Deadline for Medicare Part D Notices

BABC Health Care Alert

10/4/2011

Hospitals Take Note: Tennessee Physician Non-Compete Law Changes Again

BABC Health Care Alert

10/3/2011

What's Mine is Yours: Gainsharing Arrangements in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative

BABC Health Care Alert

9/15/2011

CMS Unveils Bundled Payment Initiative

BABC Health Care Alert

9/12/2011

CMS Modifies Hospice Reimbursement Procedures

BABC Health Care Alert

9/7/2011

CMS Finalizes Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in IPPS Final Rule

BABC Health Care Alert

8/19/2011

The Health Care Industry and Alabama's New Immigration Law

BABC Health Care Alert

8/11/2011

How Close is Close Enough? CMS Proposes Panel to Review Physician Supervision Standards

BABC Health Care Alert

8/4/2011

New Guidelines and Rules for Women's Preventive Services under the Affordable Care Act

Benefits Alert

7/26/2011

CMS Proposes to Expand the 3-Day Payment Window Rule to Cover Physician Services Provided by Hospital-Owned or Controlled Physician Practices

BABC Health Care Alert

7/20/2011

CMS Proposes to Expand Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction to the Professional Component of Advanced Imaging Services

BABC Health Care Alert

7/13/2011

The Cost of "Peeking": Recent Settlement with HHS Over Records Snooping Allegations Serves as Timely Reminder of Importance of HIPAA Compliance

BABC Health Care Alert

7/11/2011

CMS Issues Final Rule Regarding Credentialing of Telemedicine Providers

BABC Health Care Alert

6/28/2011

From "Pay and Chase" to "Catch and Keep:" CMS to Introduce Anti-Fraud Predictive Modeling July 1

BABC Health Care Alert

6/2/2011

Proposed HITECH Accounting of Disclosures Rule: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

BABC Health Care Alert

5/17/2011

SINGH v. BRMC: Expanding the Meaning of "Takes into Account" Under Stark Law

BABC Health Care Alert

5/12/2011

The New Tennessee Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2011

BABC Health Care Alert

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