New York Health Law Blog contributor and Farrell Fritz associate Veronique Urban and bankruptcy partner Ted Berkowitz take a close look at the Peninsula Hospital Center bankruptcy in the September 2013 American Bankruptcy Institute Journal. Peninsula Hospital’s bankruptcy case illustrates the various elements that make health care and hospital bankruptcy cases so different from other
Proposed “Fairness” Amendments to the False Claims Act
Earlier this month, a bill to amend the False Claims Act (“FCA”), the “Fairness in Health Care Claims, Guidance and Investigations Act,” was introduced in the House of Representatives. According to one of the bill’s sponsors, Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC), the bill’s purpose is to ensure that unintentional billing disputes are not penalized as
Photocopiers and HIPAA – Health Plan Settles with HHS for $1.2 Million
Is your office photocopy machine a HIPAA time-bomb? Affinity Health Plan recently learned that the answer is yes, to the tune of a $1.2 million settlement with the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Affinity is a not-for-profit managed care organization which includes one of the New York metropolitan