Health Care Law Blog
Health Care Law Blog is dedicated to health-care law issues in or affecting the Rocky Mountain West.
Author: Author Greg Piche' is a partner at Holland & Hart who specializes in health-care law. Holland & Hart is also behind NASD, SEC and Regulatory Defense Blog.
Blawg Related Categories: Health Law • States • Colorado • Idaho • Montana • New Mexico • Utah • Wyoming • Partner
Recent Posts from Health Care Law Blog
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THE INTERNET, MYSPACE, MEDICAL PRIVACY AND FAMILY FEUDS.
Two recent and unrelated cases this month involved the unlawful access to private medical records and the posting of them on the internet on MySpace in order to inflict pain in the prosecution of family…
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THE “AVIATION” MODEL IN HEALTHCARE AND AIR FRANCE FLIGHT 447
In the 1980s the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (“CAST”) determined that eighty five percent of aviation accidents and fifty two percent of all fatal aviation accidents were the result of cognitive error by pilots. CAST…
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Greg Piche' and Joan Ditges RAC Audit Audioconference Scheduled for June 18, 2009
Greg Piche' and Joan Didges, R.N. will present an audioconference on RAC Audits captioned "How to Guard Your Practice from Medicare RAC Audits." on June 18, 2009 at 1:00 P.M. ET. The Webinar is sponsored…
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TWENTY-FIVE STEPS IN DEFENSE OF RAC AUDITS.
Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) are in the process of saddling up for the nationwide roll out of their Medicare payment recoupment mission. Here are twenty-five recommended proactive steps to circle the wagons and defend the…
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RAC AUDITS AND NEW FEDERAL FALSE CLAIMS ACT EXPOSURE.UNDER THE FRAUD ENFORCEMENT RECOVERY ACT OF 2009 (“FERA”).
The federal squeeze of health care providers is underway. Federal Medicare recovery “bounty hunters,” the Recovery Audit Contractors (“RAC”), are marshalling resources for the anticipated, algorithm primed, data mining hunt for Medicare overpayments from hospitals,…
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INTERNET MEDICINE: PART VII – PUBLIC, PROPRIETARY AND PRIVACY TENSIONS IN MEDICAL DEVICES.
The front page of the New York Times today carried a story by Pam Belluck on a hospital’s promotional webcast of Shila Renee Mullins’s brain surgery to extract a malignant tumor, which raised conflicting opinion…