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Individual Liability for Medicare Overpayment Claims

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(February 24, 2015): Medicare recently finalized regulations allowing enrollment as a Medicare provider to be denied if any owner or control person of the enrolling provider is affiliated with another provider which owes money to Medicare. These regulations are based on sections of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). They provide CMS an indirect means […]

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Supreme Court Rules That the ACA is Constitutional

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(June 28, 2012): In a landmark case for the healthcare industry, the Supreme Court ruled today that the “individual mandate” provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), colloquially known as “Obamacare,” were indeed constitutional. As such, ACA was largely upheld by the Court. This decision further expands Congress’ legislative powers and maintains some of the

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