Legal and Policy

Follow these general guidelines to minimize the effects on your patients

Unsupported claims could lead to license suspensions, revocations.

Six strategies for profitability with new payment models

HHS Inspector General examines process for getting drugs to patients and to market quickly.

Potential $1 million fines are possible for physicians and health care providers who won’t share patient electronic health information.

As a result of changes from the SECURE Act, for the tax benefit of the entire family, parents with highly appreciated retirement accounts may want to re-think bequests.

If incentives are allowed to expire at the end of the year, it could negatively affect participation rates

Texas Medical Association claims arbitration rules give unfair advantage to health insurers.

The best way to prevent a malpractice lawsuit is to prepare for the likelihood of being sued

Positive effects emerge when patients get medical care, avoid deadly fentanyl-laced street drugs.

Congress could overrule presidential declaration, but White House threatened veto of similar measure in March.

Federal AHRQ offers starting point for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

MGMA surveys physicians to find out what could happen in 2023.

Original suit was against the interim rule

Family physicians were among those most at risk for increased burnout in pandemic.

Operating margins hurting as expenses climb, COVID-19 pandemic aftermath lingers.

Case could involve thousands of patients and providers, court filing says.

Physicians Foundation offers latest tally of problem that went from bad to worse in COVID-19 pandemic.

Support already strong in Senate, so vote could happen this year.

Letter asks for two-year extension while Congress works to make changes permanent

A look at some mishaps that led to big payouts.

Patient access, independent practices will suffer after Jan. 1, organizations say.

As a result, parents with highly appreciated retirement accounts may want to rethink bequests.

Texas case involves ACA provision that physicians say is crucial for millions of Americans.

HHS develops new measures that could indicate fraud, abuse, or waste.

Additional funds will enable navigator organizations to expand their services

Move comes after FDA give emergency use authorization for bivalent vaccines.

Funds likely to be exhausted by the end of the year, meaning commercial payers will take over payment for many patients

Latest emergency use authorizations for Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.

Payers must make public the individual amounts their health plans pay providers across all types of services and locations, including hospitals, doctors’ offices, imaging centers, outpatient surgery centers and urgent care clinics.