Health Law and Compliance Update

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Covering three years of important legal issues in health law and health care compliance.

Delivering the latest information on emerging issues in health law and health care compliance, the Health Law and Compliance Update provides chapters on legal issues in home health care, health care information technology and the medical health record, internal auditing, tax compliance issues, analysis of recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) Advisory Opinions on gainsharing, and more. Each chapter is authored by an expert in the area and includes analysis of the latest cases and statutes.

The 2007 edition examines issues such as Stark, consent to treatment, labor and employment, role of in-house counsel in compliance, liability in research under the Civil False Claims Act (FCA), developments in electronic health records, government enforcement of quality of care and legal and financial implications of the patient safety and quality improvement. The “Year in Review” chapter addresses the False Claims Act (FCA), ERISA, antitrust litigation, medical malpractice, EMTALA litigation, health care affordability, health savings accounts, and end-of-life decision-making. In addition, the 2007 edition has been updated to include a variety of practical and user-friendly tools to help you stay on top of the ever-changing landscape of health law.

The Health Law and Compliance Update provides checklists, charts and tools including:

Checklists for end-of-life decision-making
Checklists for Stark law elements
Stark Law exceptions
Checklist for lease arrangements
Reporting requirements under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959
Outline of government investigation plan
Sample memoranda to employees regarding government investigation and attorney-client privilege
FCA statistics
OIG draft compliance program guidance for PHS grant recipients
Joint Commission 2007 National Patient Safety Goals
Joint Commission ten principles for pay-for-performance programs
States’ adverse event mandatory reporting statutes and regulations

Year in Review
Legal Issues in Home Health Care
HIPAA Privacy Rule, Confidentiality, and Litigation
Federal Income Tax Compliance Issues
The Growing Importance of Securities Regulation for Publicly Traded Entities in the Post–Sarbanes-Oxley Marketplace
Medical Staff Developments
Recent ERISA Health Care Developments
Health Care Information Technology and the Electronic Health Record
Internal Auditing of the Revenue Cycle
Analysis of Gainsharing in OIG Advisory Opinions 05-1 to 05-6 and Other Recent OIG and CMS Guidance
What Does Compliance Have to Do with Quality?

Part of the Health Law & Compliance Integrated Library, Health Law and Compliance Update links to the primary source material in the CCH Health Care Compliance Reporter. The Library combines the latest information regarding Health Law from CCH and Aspen Publishers.

About the Author

Editor John E. Steiner, Jr., Esq. Mr. Steiner is the Chief Compliance Officer for UK HealthCare of Lexington, Kentucky. He is responsible for the design, implementation and oversight of a comprehensive compliance program for UK HealthCare. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), Chairman of the American Medical Group Association’s (AMGA) Council of Compliance Officers, a frequent speaker at national health law and compliance conferences, and has published extensively on health law and compliance topics.

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