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Regulations published by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that describe how employers offering workplace wellness programs can comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) went into effect Jan. 1. ADA rules ...
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Commentary: How the government targets medical necessity fraud
Health-care providers are generally familiar with medical necessity as a sometimes-pesky insurance issue. However, fraud cases are another dimension to medical necessity – and one that should not be ignored. The more that is known about this fraud, the more ...
Read More »Commentary: When health care fraud turns criminal
How does civil health care fraud result in criminal convictions? What might start small can quickly snowball when greed eclipses medical judgment. When supervision and peer review get overshadowed by revenue, civil fraud can be a crime. Some recent headlines ...
Read More »Commentary: Reproductive health care may take a hit in some states
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — On April 13 President Donald Trump approved a Congressional resolution, H.J. Res 43, that voided a regulation on Title X funding promulgated by the Obama administration in December. Before he did so, the ACLU warned that “reproductive ...
Read More »Commentary: Reasonable compensation paid to C corp doctors
It is a basic principle of federal tax law that, while a taxpayer is free to organize his affairs as he chooses, once having done so, he must accept the tax consequences of his choice, whether contemplated or not. A ...
Read More »Commentary: Trump had one good idea. Then he ditched it.
It wasn’t all that long ago – though it seems that way, admittedly, with the never-ending flood of Trumpian news – that I was prepared to acknowledge that President Donald Trump actually has a few good ideas. Or at least ...
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