Topic
Physician Supervision
10 published works
Health Care Law Matters
Relaxed Direct Physician Supervision Requirements during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Shortly after the State of New York relaxed its direct physician supervision requirements in response to the rampant spread of Novel Coronavirus 2019 (“COVID-19”), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
Antitrust Alert
FTC Encourages VA to Adopt Proposed Rule Preempting State Laws to Allow Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to Provide Services Without Physician Oversight
On July 25, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) submitted comments to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) supporting a proposed rule only affecting VA facilities that would authorize Advanced…
Iowa Healthcare Law Blog
Telemedicine Proposed IBM Rule Requires Physicians Personally to Assess Care Providers Subject to Physician Supervision
By Jeanine Freeman, J.D., Brick Gentry P.C.
This October 22, 2014 posting addresses the proposed telemedicine rule's requirement that physicians using telemedicine must personally assess the education, training, experience and abilities of each non-physician health care provider…
Health Law Rx
Failure to Comply with Physician Supervision Requirements Can Be Costly
The Department of Justice recently announced two large settlement agreements with provider organizations and individual physicians based on failure to provide proper physician supervision for diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy…
Med Law Blog
Colorado State Court Rules CRNAs May Practice Without Physician Supervision
In Colorado Medical Society v. Hickenlooper, a Colorado appeals court ruled the state of Colorado may op-out of the CMS rules requiring physician supervision of CRNAs in hospitals, ambulatory surgery…
Health Care and Life Sciences
New Rule on Physician Supervision Requirements
Responding to healthcare providers’ concerns about the need for more flexibility in the direct supervision of hospital outpatient services, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final…
Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Transmittal on Physician Supervision Requirements
CMS has issued a transmittal to further clarify CMS policies requiring physician supervision of diagnostic and therapeutic services provided to hospital outpatients. In this update, CMS is clarifying policies regarding supervision…
Life Sciences Legal Update
CMS Proposes to Relax Controversial Physician Supervision Requirements for Hospital Outpatient Services
On July 1, 2009, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") proposed to relax its controversial position concerning physician supervision of hospital outpatient services. The hospital industry had recently…
Health Care Law Matters
A Recent Case on Physician Supervision of Incident-To Services
The Medicare incident-to rules permit a physician to bill for the services of auxiliary personnel as if the physician performed those services himself. You may already know that the incident-to rules require…
Cam Law
Medical Spa Legal Issues: Laser Therapy
Physician supervision requirements can make delivery of medical spa therapies expensive. Some spas opt to have medical directors off-site and on the books in name only, thus providing a panoply…