COURT ADDRESSES CONFIDENTIALITY UNDER THE PATIENT SAFETY ACT
Last week, the Appellate Division issued its decision in a case involving the scope of the confidentiality provisions of the New Jersey Patient Safety Act. The Patient Safety Act, or PSA, requires licensed health care facilities to develop patient safety plans to improve the health and safety of patients within their facilities. The patient safety […]
Massachusetts Health Care Plan
As we have stated in prior blogs, the health care plan developed in the State of Massachusetts is a model which must be watched as a precursor of what most likely will happen under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). As we previously pointed out in my July 3rd blog, legislation is pending in Massachusetts which […]
Update on Sustainable Growth Rate
Legislation has been proposed in regard to the Sustainable Growth Rate (“SGR”) to avoid adversely affecting physician payment for another year, effective January 1, 2013. The Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) has scored the proposal. The CBO has determined that “a one-year Medicare physician payment “patch” that would block a scheduled 27 percent reimbursement cut Jan. […]