CLIENT ALERTS

	CLIENT ALERT: Supreme Court Will Determine Constitutionality of Affordable Care Act
	CLIENT ALERT: Washington State Supreme Court Overturns Extension of Higher Burden of Proof Requirement to Non-Physician Licensure Proceedings
	CLIENT ALERT: Legal Challenges to Medicaid Rate Reductions Frustrated by Proposed Federal Rules
	CLIENT ALERT: Washington State Supreme Court Recognizes New Civil Action Against Physicians Who Fail to Report Child Abuse
	CLIENT ALERT: Court of Appeals' Decision Requires Hospital to Search its Quality Assurance Database to Respond to Discovery Requests
	CLIENT ALERT: U.S. Supreme Court Will Address Challenges to Medicaid Rate Cuts
	CLIENT ALERT: CMS Unveils Long-Awaited Stark Self-Disclosure
	CLIENT ALERT: CMS Seeks Public Comment on Rule Clarifying Physician Disclosure Requirements for Imaging Services
	CLIENT ALERT: Washington Supreme Court Invalidates Ninety Day Notice of Intent to Sue Requirement for Medical Malpractice Claims
	CLIENT ALERT: Supreme Court to Consider Restrictions on Communications with Non-party Healthcare Providers: Bennett Bigelow & Leedom, P.S. files amicus curiae brief on behalf of WSHHA and others
	CLIENT ALERT: CMS Mandates Non-Teaching Hospitals Submit FY 07 and 08 Informational-Only Medicare Advantage Claims And Attestation That All Such Claims Have Been Submitted
	CLIENT ALERT: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Makes Significant Changes to Federal Physician-Self Referral (“Stark”) Law and Anti-Kickback Statute
	CLIENT ALERT: Washington Supreme Court Decision: Corporate Practice of Medicine, Anti-Rebating and Other Issues in the Employment of Physical Therapists by a Physician Practice
	CLIENT ALERT: The Future in IRS Enforcement for Exempt Organizations
	CLIENT ALERT: HHS Issues HITECH Breach Notification Interim Final Rule
	CLIENT ALERT: Washington Law Changed to Apply “Privileged” Status to Communications Between Certain Mental Health Practitioners and Patients
	CLIENT ALERT: Proposed CY 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Other Part B Payments Rule
	CLIENT ALERT: Medicare's Proposed FY 2010 Inpatient and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System Rule
	CLIENT ALERT: Federal Court Enjoins Medicaid Pharmacy Cuts
	CLIENT ALERT: OIG: No Stark-Only Disclosures Under Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol
	CLIENT ALERT: CMS Publishes 2009 IPPS Proposed Rule Containing Modifications to Stark Regulations
	CLIENT ALERT: Excess Benefit Transactions - Final Regulations Issued
	CLIENT ALERT: CMS Withdraws Effort to Survey Hospitals on Stark Compliance/Financial Arrangements with Physicians
	CLIENT ALERT: Proposed DOH Mandatory Reporting Rules--Chapter 246-16 WAC
	CLIENT ALERT: Hospitals Beware: 990 Nonprofit Tax Form Undergoes Major IRS Overhaul
	CLIENT ALERT: DOH's Draft Mandatory Reporting Rules Raise Many Issues
	CLIENT ALERT: CMS to Require 500 Hospitals to Provide Detailed Information on Physician Financial Arrangements, Including Indirect Ownership Interests
	CLIENT ALERT: IRS Increases Scrutiny of Hospital Charity Care (Wendy S. Pearson)
	CLIENT ALERT: CMS Issues Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule for CY 2008
	Bad Faith CLE PowerPoint (Tim Allen)
	CLIENT ALERT: CMS Issues Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule for CY 2008
	Gainsharing
	Regulatory Developments Affecting Physician Retainer Fees
	Medicare/Medicaid 101
	From Bright Line to Hot Spot: Stark and Physician Fraud and Abuse Issues in 2005
	CLIENT ALERT: IRS Preliminary Response to Public Comments Signals Likely Revisions to Form 990 (Wendy S. Pearson, Of Counsel)
	CLIENT ALERT: Washington Supreme Court Invalidates Commercial Carrier's Mandatory Arbitration Contract Clause
	CLIENT ALERT: Washington Supreme Court Decision Interpreting Anti-Rebating Statute
	CLIENT ALERT: Proposed CMS Rule on Direct/Indirect Graduate Medical Education (GME/IME) For Training in Nonhospital Sites
	CLIENT ALERT: OIG Report on Hospital Wage Data Reporting Errors