Like it or not, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expanding its strong commitment to focus on quality and care improvement as the basis for payment throughout the continuum of care.

It used to be taken for granted that when a claim arose out of a construction project, contractors and subcontractors, and even some suppliers, could point the finger at those who provided labor or materials behind them in the contractual chain.

In 2020, North Carolina passed a temporary law authorizing Emergency Video Notarization ("EVN") to alleviate the requirement that notaries be in the physical presence of signers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Dewey-Beats-Truman results of last night show the current limits of Big Data and Predictive Analytics.

Movie buffs are familiar with a favored narrative arc: something with tremendous power, such as the Ebola virus, escapes from its clinical confines and proceeds to wreak havoc on the world. (It also works with aliens, ghosts, and supervillains). A digital variant of this trope appears to be playing out in a global tsunami of ransomware attacks.

​If the number of cranes visible on skylines of metropolitan areas such as Raleigh, Charlotte, and Atlanta are any indication of the resurgence of the commercial real estate (CRE) market for now, the resounding silence of so many construction sites abandoned by their workers and financiers during the financial crisis is past

It's coming. The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on May 25, 2018.

The GDPR is an intricate regime that will potentially require affected companies to make both technological and procedural adjustments.

​The IRS has proposed new rules that will require tax-exempt hospitals (and other tax-exempt entities) to review a variety of compensation arrangements to avoid unintended tax consequences.

In a recently filed lawsuit, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. CRST International Inc. and CRST Expedited Inc., the EEOC alleges that CRST violated the Americans With Disabilities Act . . .

Last summer, the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority announced it would no longer require LIBOR panel banks to report interbank transactions after 2021, thus ending the interest rate...

The NC Supreme Court recently affirmed the dismissal of a multitude of lender liability claims asserted against BB&T in a quasi-class action by purchasers of undeveloped lots in Brunswick County.

The Section has closed its satellite offices in Clinton and Asheville, effective October 2015. In addition, survey staff formerly housed at those offices will now be working remotely from their homes.

Like it or not, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expanding its strong commitment to focus on quality and care improvement as the basis for payment to providers throughout the continuum of care.

Published on July 14, 2016, CMS's proposed 2017 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule calls for site-neutral payments that would stop Medicare payments to many off-campus facilities at the same level as payments to hospital-based departments.

We typically think an attorney-client relationship is something that has an unmistakable beginning.

In February 2016, the President set up the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.

We're back with the second installment in our series on the IRS's Section 457 proposed rules. The first alert covered Section 457(f) basics and discussed the meaning of "deferred" compensation.

Husky provided electronic device components to Chrysalis Manufacturing Corp., accumulating indebtedness of nearly $164,000.00 for unpaid goods.

On August 4, 2017, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released its first revocation of a hospital's tax exemption under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3) for failure to comply with...