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Health Law and Compliance Update

Covering three years of important legal issues in health law and health care compliance.

Delivering the latest information on emerging issues in health law and health care compliance, the Health Law and Compliance Update provides chapters on legal issues in home health care, health care information technology and the medical health record, internal auditing, tax compliance issues, analysis of recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) Advisory Opinions on gain-sharing, and more. Each chapter is authored by an expert in the area and includes analysis of the latest cases and statutes.

The 2007 edition examines issues such as Stark, consent to treatment, labor and employment, role of in-house counsel in compliance, liability in research under the Civil False Claims Act (FCA), developments in electronic health records, government enforcement of quality of care and legal and financial implications of the patient safety and quality improvement. The "Year in Review" chapter addresses the False Claims Act (FCA), ERISA, antitrust litigation, medical malpractice, EMTALA litigation, health care affordability, health savings accounts, and end-of-life decision-making. In addition, the 2007 edition has been updated to include a variety of practical and user-friendly tools to help you stay on top of the ever-changing landscape of health law.

Features and Benefits

The Health Law and Compliance Update provides checklists, charts and tools including:

• Checklists for end-of-life decision-making
• Checklists for Stark law elements
• Stark Law exceptions
• Checklist for lease arrangements
• Reporting requirements under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959
• Outline of government investigation plan
• Sample memoranda to employees regarding government investigation and attorney-client privilege
• FCA statistics
• OIG draft compliance program guidance for PHS grant recipients
• Joint Commission 2007 National Patient Safety Goals
• Joint Commission ten principles for pay-for-performance programs
• States' adverse event mandatory reporting statutes and regulations

The Health Law and Compliance Update provides checklists, charts and tools including:

• Checklists for end-of-life decision-making
• Checklists for Stark law elements
• Stark Law exceptions
• Checklist for lease arrangements
• Reporting requirements under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959
• Outline of government investigation plan
• Sample memoranda to employees regarding government investigation and attorney-client privilege
• FCA statistics
• OIG draft compliance program guidance for PHS grant recipients
• Joint Commission 2007 National Patient Safety Goals
• Joint Commission ten principles for pay-for-performance programs
• States' adverse event mandatory reporting statutes and regulations

Part of the Health Law & Compliance Integrated Library, Health Law and Compliance Update links to the primary source material in the CCH Health Care Compliance Reporter. The Library combines the latest information regarding Health Law from CCH and Aspen Publishers.

Table Of Contents

Table of Contents:

1. Year in Review
2. Legal Issues in Home Health Care
3. HIPAA Privacy Rule, Confidentiality, and Litigation
4. Federal Income Tax Compliance Issues
5. The Growing Importance of Securities Regulation for Publicly Traded Entities in the Post—Sarbanes-Oxley Marketplace
6. Medical Staff Developments
7. Recent ERISA Health Care Developments
8. Health Care Information Technology and the Electronic Health Record
9. Internal Auditing of the Revenue Cycle
10. Analysis of Gainsharing in OIG Advisory Opinions 05-1 to 05-6 and Other Recent OIG and CMS Guidance
11. What Does Compliance Have to Do with Quality?