The Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) recently entered into a Resolution Agreement with Pagosa Springs Medical Center (“PSMC”), resolving HIPAA violations over five years after the initial investigation began.1 On June 7,…
This fall there have been a variety of federal initiatives aimed at expanding treatment options to address substance use disorder and mental illness. In late October, President Trump signed into law a comprehensive bipartisan opioid and substance…
Indiana Medicaid announced that, effective January 1, 2019, adults determined to be presumptively eligible for Medicaid will receive fee-for-service benefits during the presumptive eligibility (PE) coverage period. This change means that the…
Krieg DeVault is pleased to announce that attorney Kay Dee Baird has been elected as Vice Chair of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Commercial and Bankruptcy Law section. Her term begins January 1, 2019. Ms. Baird has previously served in various…
The Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) recently entered into a Resolution Agreement with a Florida physicians’ group, Advanced Care Hospitalists PL (“ACH”), after investigating an alleged HIPAA breach.1 Between November 2011…
Partner Brett J. Ashton addresses the responsibilities that banks must follow under Indiana law when faced with a security breach.
Just a few weeks ago, in Andrade v. City of Hammond, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the City of Hammond’s determination that a property owner’s building was unsafe pursuant to Indiana’s Unsafe Building Law (“UBL”). Specifically, the Court…
The Bipartisan Budget Act (“BBA”) of 2015, and its implementing regulations at 42 CFR 419.22(v) and 419.48 resulted in the movement of payments for nonexcepted provider-based departments (“PBD”) from the outpatient prospective payment system…
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recently announced changes to criminal and civil corporate investigation protocol during a speech on November 29, 2018. For the past several years, the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has attempted to…
Krieg DeVault is pleased to announce that health care attorney Brandon W. Shirley has been selected to the Indiana State Bar Association’s Leadership Development Academy (“LDA”) Class of 2019. Mr. Shirley, a Senior Associate at Krieg DeVault, was…
The US Department of Health & Human Services updated the National Practitioner Data Bank (“NPDB”) Guidebook, effective October 2018. The last time the Guidebook was revised was April 2015. While the 2015 revision included substantial updates to the…
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced plans to clarify application of federal anti-discrimination requirements on health care providers with Tricare enrollment agreements. The DOL and Tricare providers have long been at odds over…
