This podcast explores:
• Goals of the Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care
• The current digital health reimbursement structure and its impact on patient care and patient costs
• Key risk and compliance areas digital health companies need to address in 2019 and beyond
• Issues for digital health companies to consider when developing business plans
• Collaborations between digital health companies and other healthcare players
Stark and AKS Final Rules Will Facilitate Donations of EHR and Cybersecurity Technology and Services
On November 20, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Office of Inspector General released final rules amending the regulations to the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute and Beneficiary Inducement Civil Monetary Penalty Law. As part of these final rules, the agencies liberalized the requirements under the existing exception and safe harbor for donations of electronic health record items and services, and created a new exception and safe harbor to allow donations of cybersecurity technology and related services.
OCR Issues Proposed Modifications to HIPAA Privacy Rule to Remove Barriers to Coordination of Care and Reduce Regulatory Burden
Government Resources on the Proposed Rules
CMS Proposed Rule Fact Sheet: Modernizing and Clarifying the Physician Self-Referral Regulations
McDermott Insights and Analysis
CMS Completes Sprint to Modernize Stark Law—Part II
©Copyright 2021, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC. Reprint permission granted.
CMS Completes Sprint to Modernize the Stark Law—Part I
©Copyright 2021, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC. Reprint permission granted.
The Sprint to Modernize and Clarify the Stark Law - Part II
©Copyright 2020, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC. Reprint permission granted.
The Sprint to Modernize and Clarify the Stark Law – Part I
©Copyright 2019, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC. Reprint permission granted.
HHS Proposes Substantial Changes to the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute Regulations
CMS Publishes Proposed Amendments to Stark Law Advisory Opinion Regulations
CMS Seeks Comments on Stark Law Reforms Needed to Reduce Obstacles to Innovation
What a Difference a Year Makes—Key Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law Developments
Journal of Health Care Compliance, July - August 2020.
Key Takeaways from OIG’s AKS Sprint Proposed Rule
©Copyright 2020, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC. Reprint permission granted.
Dash to Digital Health? How the Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care Could Expand Access to Care
Analyzing Fee Restrictions for Health IT and EHI Under ONC's Final Information Blocking Rule
ONC Releases Final Rule Implementing Cures Act Information Blocking Prohibition
CMS Final Rule Aims to Advance Interoperability, Exchange of Clinical and Plan Information
SAMHSA Proposed Rule Would Reduce Barriers to Care Coordination
HHS Announces Quality Summit to Streamline and Improve Quality Programs across Government
Analyzing ONC ’s Proposed Rule: Fee Restrictions for Health IT and EHI
With compliance dates recently pushed back to April 2021, this episode of the Of Digital Interest podcast features McDermott Health Law partners James Cannatti and Scott Weinstein, Chartis Group principal Chelsea Wyatt and associate principal Claudia Miller, and McDermott’s Chief Marketing Officer Leslie Tullio as they discuss healthcare data accessibility and other key issues healthcare providers should keep in mind to comply with new regulations, including:
· Scenarios in which a request for open notes might occur and key exceptions to a required response
· Guidance for providers regarding clinical notes accessibility for patients
· Compliance options for handling active requests from various input portals
· Who holds ultimate ownership for ensuring that open notes are shared when requested
· Healthcare goals with the implementation of APIs
· The types of data and notes to be shared under the USCDI standard
· Anticipated HIPAA compliance challenges associated with patient requests for shared notes
· Scenarios that will denote a need for physician training on improving their shared notes
This podcast explores:
• Goals of the Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care
• The current digital health reimbursement structure and its impact on patient care and patient costs
• Key risk and compliance areas digital health companies need to address in 2019 and beyond
• Issues for digital health companies to consider when developing business plans
• Collaborations between digital health companies and other healthcare players