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House Votes to Repeal and Replace Obamacare When It Really Matters

Robert James Cimasi, Todd A. Zigrang, and Jessica L. Bailey-Wheaton, Health Capital Consultants, St. Louis, MO

On May 4, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 217 to 213 (largely along party lines) to pass a bill entitled the American Health Care Act (AHCA) to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a/k/a Obamacare.

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The American Health Care Act Targets Medicaid Reform

Felicia Y Sze, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, San Francisco, CA

The American Health Care Act (H.R. 1628) envisions a number of significant changes to the way in which states may operate their Medicaid programs.

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Federal Court Interprets Revised Writing Requirements to Stark Law Exceptions

Scott R. Grubman and Gregory A. Tanner, Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever, LLP, Atlanta, GA

On March 15, 2017, Chief Judge Joy Flowers Conti of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued a decision in U.S. ex rel. Tullio Emanuele v. Medicor Associates Inc. et al., which contains the first judicial interpretation of recent clarifications of the Stark Law’s writing requirement issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2015.

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House Votes to Repeal and Replace Obamacare When It Really Matters

The American Health Care Act Targets Medicaid Reform

Federal Court Interprets Revised Writing Requirements to Stark Law Exceptions