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NATIONAL CMS Administrator Seema Verma scoffs at hospital execs’ arguments against transparency Hospital employed physicians see 7% drop in compensation for 2018: 14 statistics to know Physician Compensation Programs Move Toward Value-Based Pay Standalone hospitals in the M&A era: 3 CFOs to watch Optum’s ‘city by city’ healthcare strategy 3 ASC leaders forecast 2020... READ MORE

Hall Render is pleased to announce Victoire Iradukunda has joined the firm in its Indianapolis office. Victoire Iradukunda devotes her practice to health law with a focus on transactional matters. Victoire advises clients in a variety of transactional arrangements, including corporate transactions, physician alignment and physician integration matters. Victoire received her B.S. from Indiana... READ MORE

Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that 3 charities will pay a total of $10 million to settle claims that the charities operated as conduits for illegal kickbacks to pharmaceutical companies. The industry-wide probe also implicated several pharmaceutical companies that, according to the DOJ, improperly used charitable foundations as a way to... READ MORE

House and Senate Panels Announce Surprise Billing Fix On December 8, leaders from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (“HELP”) and House Energy and Commerce committees announced an agreement on surprise billing legislation. The proposal is intended to end surprise billing of patients by creating a new system of dispute resolution that includes... READ MORE

For the fifth time, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (“CCBHCs”) have received a short-term funding extension with Congress’ last-minute passage of a temporary government-wide spending bill. Funding for CCBHCs in this extension runs through December 20, 2019. This measure was signed into law late on November 21, just in the nick of time as... READ MORE

NATIONAL 8 major CMS changes to take effect in 2020 2 physician payment model advisers abruptly resign from MACRA committee 8 hospital construction projects worth $1B or more in 2019 Mandatory CMS radiation oncology model goes on the backburner More than 600 hospitals sue over Medicare payment reductions 7 hospitals across 4 states will... READ MORE

Recently, the Indiana Supreme Court clarified the judiciary’s inability to add terms to an impermissibly broad nonsolicitation agreement, even if specifically requested in the agreement itself. Background When the terms of a noncompetition or nonsolicitation agreement are disputed, parties often ask courts to determine whether the terms are reasonable. Indiana courts administer this task... READ MORE

Ntracts has formally announced the appointments of David Paschall, John Riley and Rebekah Sharpe as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Operating Officer, respectively. The trio will join existing Ntracts executives John Shane, President, and Jeff Wittman, Chief Financial Officer, on the health care contract management software company’s senior leadership team. In 1987, Hall... READ MORE

On November 27, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that an Affiliated Covered Entity made up of 10 hospital covered entities (“ACE Organization”) will pay a penalty of $2.175 million and enter into a two-year Corrective Action Plan (“CAP”) to settle potential violations of the Health... READ MORE

When an entity merges with or acquires another business, the parties to the transaction face a variety of issues. When attempting to sort out some of the more-dominant deal points (e.g., ever-changing regulatory requirements, successful employee integration, preferred methods of financing, etc.), many entities inadvertently overlook other details that, despite being seemingly routine, could... READ MORE