Category: Bruce Hillowe Archive
February 12, 2026
NGS Medicare begins enforcing ban on handwritten claims. The ban was effective November 13, 2017, but has begun to be enforced just recently. All Medicare claims must be either printed from typewritten fillable pdf’s or...
HEALTH LAW SUPPLEMENT Summer 2018
February 12, 2026
Mental health diagnosis by unlicensed staff at NYS agencies will be phased out beginning next year . For over a decade, in order to render mental health diagnoses as part of psychotherapy practice in a private setting in the
HEALTH LAW SUPPLEMENT Spring 2018
February 12, 2026
Proposed expansion of NYS’s Managed Care Bill of Rights. The current Bill of Rights protects managed care panel members from being terminated as providers without a written explanation and a hearing that includes a clinical
HEALTH LAW SUPPLEMENT Winter 2018
February 12, 2026
Selling a psychotherapy practice: So you’re planning for retiring or moving, or just want or need a change and are wondering whether you might be able to sell your psychotherapy practice. The first consideration is whether
HEALTH LAW SUPPLEMENT Fall 2017
February 12, 2026
The duty to investigate Medicare overpayments. Clients sometimes ask if they need to take any action when they think that they may have been overpaid by Medicare either because of an error in billing by the practitioner, or...