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Lash & Goldberg LLP represented a national health care system against a vendor that had been contracted by certain of its hospitals to recover denied insurance claims.  The health system terminated the contract after it learned that the vendor had violated HIPAA via the unauthorized release of protected health information from hospital records.

Lash & Goldberg LLP secured a final summary judgment on behalf of a Florida medical center against a physician’s claims of race discrimination in federal district court.  The physician had sued when his medical staff membership and privileges were revoked.

The Final Payment Amount is Reduced, Not the Payment Rates

In an April 17, 2014 letter to the American Hospital Association, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) clarified the application of the sequestration by Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAO) to reduce payments to providers.