In December 2013, the Office of Civil Rights of the Federal Department of Health and Human Services, the agency charged with enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (commonly known as HIPAA), imposed a $150,000 penalty for alleged HIPAA violations against a dermatology practice, APDerm. The case is especially instructive for health care providers of all sizes.

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Peer review laws have been enacted in all 50 states. The intent of these laws is to improve the quality of health care by providing a system for health care institutions to evaluate the qualifications, competence and performance of health care providers.

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Two recent cases involving hospital bylaws and policies have resulted in pro-hospital and anti-doctor results.

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Maryland’s Health Services Cost Review Commission has submitted an updated application to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which, if accepted by CMS, would change the test under which Maryland hospitals could retain their waiver from the Medicare payment system.

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The Federal Trade Commission has recently launched antitrust challenges to a hospital system’s acquisition of the only other hospital offering meaningful competition in its region, another hospital system’s acquisition of 16 cardiologists and a third hospital system’s acquisition of a neighboring hospital.

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Since the passage of federal health care reform in 2010, tax professionals have been focused on the number 3.8 and its potential effect on two Medicare-related taxes.

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The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced last year that Delano Regional Medical Center, an acute-care hospital in California's San Joaquin Valley, agreed to pay $975,000 to settle a class action national origin discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of a class of approximately 70 Filipino-American hospital workers.

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The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the federal Department of Health and Human Services recently released two advisory opinions clarifying the reach of the federal anti-kickback statute. That law makes it illegal for anyone to pay or receive money or other benefits designed to induce the referral of a patient for items or services payable by a federal health care program, such as Medicare.

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In August, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new “Stage 2” rules for the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR).

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Michael C. Powell is the new managing member and chief operating officer of Gordon Feinblatt LLC.

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