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Recently, Hall Render added five attorneys and one paralegal to the Hall Render real estate group! This growth is part of Hall Render’s objective to provide locally accessible legal services to our health care real estate clients throughout the country. To learn more about Hall Render’s newest real estate team members, click here. READ MORE

Hall Render is pleased to announce attorney Karen Withers has joined the firm’s Indianapolis office. Ms. Withers advises and defends physicians, physician practice groups, hospitals, long-term care facilities and other health care providers in all stages of medical malpractice litigation, including jury trials and appeals. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of... READ MORE

Menorah Medical Center believed it was complying with the Kansas State peer review statute when it required peer review investigations be kept confidential, when it told employees that they were not allowed to bring a union representative to a peer review committee meeting and when it refused to provide peer review committee documents to... READ MORE

Executive Summary The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has engaged StrategicHealthSolutions, LLC (“Strategic”) as a Supplemental Medical Review Contractor (“SMRC”) to conduct post-payment claim reviews of selected Part A and Part B claims for blepharoplasty and other eyelid procedures.  READ MORE

Executive Summary On October 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a proposed rule that would overhaul the clinical diagnostic lab test (“CDLT”) payment system by linking the clinical lab fee schedule (“CLFS”) to private payor payment rates (“Proposed Rule”).  Under the Proposed Rule, each applicable laboratory will be required... READ MORE

OMB Begins Review of 2016 Medicare Payment Rules On October 13, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) began its review of four separate 2016 Medicare payment rules. Each rule is required to be released by November 1. The first three rules under review would revise Medicare Part A payment rates for hospital outpatient departments... READ MORE

Hall Render is pleased to announce attorney Tony Caldwell has joined the firm’s Indianapolis office. Tony practices in the area of health care law with a focus on health information technology, general business transactions and services, privacy and security and electronic health records. He earned his undergraduate degree from Wabash College in 2007 and... READ MORE

McCarthy Quits Race for House Speaker On October 8, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) withdrew his name from consideration for the Speaker of the House of Representatives moments before House Republicans were expected to formally nominate him. Retiring House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will remain speaker until the House votes to elect a... READ MORE

For years, companies in the United States have relied on a Safe Harbor to the EU Directives (the stringent privacy requirements imposed by the European Union) to qualify for the ability to transfer protected data between EU countries and the United States. Today, however, the European Court of Justice ruled that the agreement between... READ MORE

Senate Finance Committee Holds Hearing on Improper Payments On October 1, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing to examine how improper health care payments, including overpayments and underpayments, are problematic to the federal government.  More specifically, those stemming from Medicare, Medicaid and the Earned Income Tax Credit, which account for over 76 percent of... READ MORE