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Q: When do the DOT's new refund rules go into effect? Have there been any court cases seeking to block the rule? Can you explain exactly how the rules affect [...]

Billing in healthcare can be extremely complicated, especially when trying to get all the stakeholders on the same page. New legislation, in the form of the No Surprises Act, introduces [...]

Q: In last week's Legal Briefs column, you answered a bunch of questions about the DOT's new refund rule that will go into effect on Oct. 26. I have few [...]

Objective: To assess longitudinal primary care organization participation patterns in large-scale reform programs and identify organizational characteristics associated with multiprogram participation. Data Sources: Secondary data analysis of national program participation data over an eight-year period (2009-2016). Study Design: We conducted a retrospective, observational study by creating a unique set of data linkages (including Medicare and Medicaid Meaningful Use and Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organization (MSSP ACO) participation from CMS, Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) participation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and organizational characteristics) to measure longitudinal participation and identify what types of organizations participate in one or more of these reform programs. We used multivariate models to identify organizational characteristics that differentiate those that participate in none, one, or two-to-three programs. Data Extraction Methods: We used Medicare claims to identify organizations that delivered primary care services (n = 56 ,287) and then linked organizations to program participation data and characteristics. Principal Findings: No program achieved more than 50% participation across the 56,287 organizations in a given year, and participation levels flattened or decreased in later years. 36% of organizations did not participate in any program over the eight-year study period; 50% participated in one; 13% in two; and 1% in all three. 14.31% of organizations participated in five or more years of Meaningful Use while 3.84% of organizations participated in five years of the MSSP ACO Program and 0.64% participated in at least five years of PCMH. Larger organizations, those with younger providers, those with more primary care providers, and those with larger Medicare patient panels were more likely to participate in more programs. Conclusions and Relevance: Primary care transformation via use of voluntary programs, each with their own participation requirements and approach to incentives, has failed to broadly engage primary care organizations. Those that have chosen to participate in multiple programs are likely those already providing high-quality care. KEYWORDS health care reform, national health policy, primary care, 1 | INTRODUCTION To address persistently high spending and variable population health outcomes, US policy makers have experimented with different approaches to care delivery and payment. (1) Over the past [...]

Late payments are the bane of a credit manager's existence because they are often difficult to navigate. When a business relationship kicks off, both parties are eager for the new [...]

Businesses that deferred VAT payments during the early stages of the pandemic which remain outstanding need to act by the end of June in order to avoid penalties -- and [...]

Byline: CityBusiness staff reports LSU Law is expanding its Loan Repayment Assistance Program for recent graduates working in public service positions. The program has received more funding from the Louisiana [...]

A Searcy lawyer stands accused by a judge of hoodwinking a contractor who helped build his 4,200-SF custom house. In a scathing ruling, Circuit Judge Robert Bynum Gibson Jr. said [...]

Since 2013, the examination arm of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made it a priority to focus on payments advisers and mutual funds make in connection with the [...]

Labour peer Lord Mendelsohn has today introduced a Private Members Bill to the House of Lords aimed at addressing late payments and strengthening the powers of the Small Business Commissioner. [...]

The Fed says it will build a real-time interbank payments system. Eventually IN SEVERAL countries--Britain, say, or Sweden--bank transfers are more or less instant. The moment your wages leave your [...]

Byline: Carina Perkins It may not be best practice but food and drink firms aren't actually breaking any rules by negotiating lengthy payment terms. UK legislation states payment terms between [...]

Byline: Hannah Lang An appeals court has rejected claims by a state housing finance agency that the National Homebuyers Fund is barred from offering down payment assistance in Washington state. [...]

Byline: Tanaya Macheel Let's regroup: Citibank, which for two years has been testing compact, tech-heavy branches featuring ATMs and self-service kiosks but only a few employees, is scrapping the idea. [...]

Byline: John Heltman WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday said it has commissioned a third-party study into the costs and causes of payments fraud, following a recommendation of [...]

Meeting this goal can sometimes be a challenge when it comes to successfully navigating through the Medicare coding, billing, and reimbursement system. For years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]

USDA issued administrative complaints against two U.S. produce businesses under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). The agency alleged C & D PRODUCE OUTLET INC. failed to pay seven sellers [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Lenders in Houston and other flood-ravaged parts of Texas are bracing for a wave of missed payments -- particularly on auto loans and residential mortgages -- as [...]

Byline: Lalita Clozel WASHINGTON -- State regulators are modernizing their common licensing platform for nonbank financial institutions, hoping the update will help convince wary fintechs that they don't need to [...]

Byline: Nick Bourke With a change in leadership at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the federal agency regulating large national banks is poised to tackle some big [...]

New European payments regulation has the potential to shake up the banks IN BRITAIN alone millions of people make formal complaints each year about their banks. For them, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, [...]

Introduction The Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act ('PACA') confers a preferred 'super-priority' status upon eligible sellers of fresh produce. They are the beneficiaries of a trust, consisting of all of the [...]

Byline: JIM HENRY Just over half the states have franchise laws that include a specific formula for dealerships to follow in documenting the rates they charge customers for retail service [...]

USDA released two notices Jan. 18 regarding an administrative action and a citation under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). USDA filed an administrative action under PACA against AMERICAN FRUIT [...]

Byline: John Adams London has been a magnet for technology startups, buoyed by a favorable regulatory environment and proximity to many of the world's largest financial institutions. While it's still [...]

Byline: Brian Collins WASHINGTON -- The inspector general for the Department of Housing and Urban Development is not backing down on his concerns about premium pricing associated with Federal Housing [...]

Byline: Ian Rubin Lots of industry attention has been focused on the speed of faster payment transactions. Is a transaction completed in less than 15 seconds sufficient? Should we set [...]

Byline: Steven L. Antonakes Both banks and fintech firms have reached an innovation crossroads. Before now, nonbank fintech firms could do no wrong in the public eye. They enjoyed a [...]

Byline: Eric Grover The financial services industry has been battered by bad law, but worse by an administrative regime on steroids. The economic malaise -- highlighted by an April labor-force-participation [...]

Byline: Penny Crosman If he's worried about fintech upstarts or bitcoin offering a high-tech alternative to Western Union's bread-and-butter business of money transfer, Chief Information Officer David Thompson doesn't let [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack The steady stream of bad news continues for online marketplace lenders. State officials in California have asked top online lending firms a series of probing questions regarding [...]