October 18, 2019
FTLF Partners Kathy Ghiladi, Susannah Vance Gopalan, and Carrie Bill Riley will travel to Chicago, IL next week to participate in the 2019 NACHC Financial, Operations Management / IT (FOM/IT) Conference. During [...]
February 13, 2018
On February 9, President Trump signed into law the long-awaited Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Pub. Law 115-123). The major spending bill reauthorizes a total of $7.8 billion dollars in funding for [...]
November 9, 2016
If you have been overwhelmed by the number of HIPAA settlement announcements recently, you are not alone. Over the past sixteen months, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced seventeen HIPAA [...]
November 3, 2016
If, as we near the end of 2016, your health center has a lot of unaccomplished items on its compliance work plan or “to do” list, it may be time to develop [...]
October 24, 2016
Attorneys from FTLF’s health care practice group will be presenting at educational sessions during the NACHC 2016 FOM-IT conference from Thursday, November 3 and Friday November 4 in Las Vegas, NV. The training [...]
October 14, 2016
On May 18, 2016 the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities Final Rule implementing Section 1557 of [...]
October 5, 2016
Health centers save money when it comes to Medicaid recipients, according to a recent study that will be published next month in the American Journal of Public Health. Medicaid recipients who received [...]
August 30, 2016
At Sunday night’s opening session of the 2016 NACHC Community Health Institute in Chicago, IL, Senior Partner and Health Care Practice Leader, Jacqueline Leifer, was honored with the Wilford A. Payne Spirit [...]
August 25, 2016
On Tuesday, August 23, 2016, the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) released the highly anticipated DRAFT Health Center Program Compliance Manual and is requesting public comments online through 11:59 pm on [...]
August 18, 2016
It is the height of the 2016 election season. Not only will we soon have a new White House resident, but there may also be noticeable shifts in control of both the [...]