Author: creative@emmatang.com
February 13, 2026
The new federal prohibition on “information blocking.” Beginning April 5, 2021, a portion of the federal “21st Century Cures Act,” Section 4004, called “Interoperability, Information Blocking and ONC Health IT...
HEALTH LAW SUPPLEMENT Winter 2020
February 13, 2026
Waiver of co-payments and deductibles and insurance fraud. This topic has been addressed before briefly in the Supplement but bears in-depth review now. There have recently been a spate of audits by the New York State...
HEALTH LAW SUPPLEMENT Autumn 2020
February 13, 2026
New and revised CPT codes. Codes for mental health services have been revised or added for: cognitive function intervention services (usually for older patients with a focus on compensatory strategies); online assessment and
HEALTH LAW SUPPLEMENT Summer 2020
February 13, 2026
Will COVID be the cause of a paradigm shift toward delivery of mental health services by telehealth? The American Psychiatric Association in May found that 86% of psychiatrists responding to a survey were seeing 75% or more...
HEALTH LAW SUPPLEMENT Spring 2020
February 13, 2026
An advantage of a duty to warn statute: relative immunity for practitioners. In the last issue, I discussed the uncertainty that exists in New York State about whether mental health professionals are obligated to make...