Sat.Jan 11, 2014 - Fri.Jan 17, 2014

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CRIMINAL LAW: Retroactivity of Supreme Court Decision in Padilla v. Kentucky and Possible Application for Health Professionals

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Our guest author of this is article is Mark Rieber, a legal research attorney with National Legal Research Group in Charlottesville, Virginia. In Padilla v. Kentucky , 559 US 356 (2010), the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires an attorney for a criminal defendant to provide advice about the risk of deportation arising from a guilty plea.

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Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals Suspends Assignment of Appeal Requests Because of Large Backlog of RAC Appeals

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By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Appealing a bad decision by Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) is taking longer than ever, according to an article on Modern Healthcare. The system is so overwhelmed by the number of appeals that some are calling it an “administrative quagmire that is denying basic due process rights.

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CMS Announced Proposed Rule to Possibly Ban Providers Labeled as Harmful Medicare Part D Prescribers

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By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law and Michael L. Smith, R.R.T., J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to exclude providers from Medicare if the government determines a pattern of abusive prescribing practices of Medicare Part D drugs.