Since the Fall of 2017, the Trump Administration has used its executive and regulatory authority to roll back coverage requirements for Affordable Care Act[1] (ACA) health plans and expand access to association health plans that would be offered outside of ACA’s exchanges to small businesses and self-employed individuals.
Read MoreOn October 12, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order “to reform the United States healthcare system to take the first steps to expand choices and alternatives to Obamacare plans and increase competition to bring down costs for consumers.”
Read MoreThe United States Department of Justice has filed an action seeking to enjoin a hospital from enforcing provisions in its contracts with health insurers that prohibit the insurers from steering policyholders to lower cost providers1.
Read MoreOn October 6, 2015 California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 575, requiring annual notifications of certain nonforfeiture benefits under long-term care insurance contracts. Under current law, an insurer is required to offer, at the time of application for a long-term care insurance contract, an option to purchase a shortened benefit period nonforfeiture benefit.
Read MoreOn April 16, 2015, the Cybersecurity Task Force of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners adopted 12 principles for effective cybersecurity insurance regulatory guidance.
Read MoreRecent efforts by hospitals, physician practice groups and health insurance and managed care companies to lower health care delivery costs and better align their respective interests following the passage of the Affordable Care Act was the focus of a Bloomberg BNA article from Locke Lord LL lawyers Jon Biasetti, Baird Allis and Benjamin Sykes.
Read MoreAs further analyzed in our QuickStudy, available here, New Jersey has enacted a new law (P.L. 2014, c. 88, codified at N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 56:8-196 – 56:8-198) effective August 1, 2015, requiring health insurance carriers authorized to issue health benefits plans in New Jersey to encrypt personal information that they store electronically.
Read MoreLocke Lord Edwards’ latest Healthcare Update discusses that CMS proposes to update the EHR Incentive Program; that HHS announced timeline for medicare payment reform; that OIG issued favorable advisory opinion regarding patient assistance program; and the HIPAA settlement following breach caused by malware.
Read MoreEdwards Wildman’s latest Healthcare Update discusses that the New CMS Guidelines on Telemedicine Reimbursement; that OIG Releases 2015 Work Plan and OCR Issues Bulletin on Privacy in Emergency Situations.
Read MoreEdwards Wildman’s latest Healthcare Update discusses how OIG issues favorable advisory opinion for Medigap “Preferred Hospital” network arrangement; the FDA issued a draft guidance on stem cell same surgery exception; and the $840 million in grants that are available through new HHS Transformation Initiative.
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