Rick Hindmand featured on Coffee with Coker podcast

March 3, 2022

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McDonald Hopkins' Rick Hindmad was recently a guest on the Coker Group's Coffee with Coker podcast series, in an episode covering the No Surprises Act.

Rick explained the No Surprises Act, the legislation that protects patients from surprise billing by prohibiting balance billing unless the patient is notified and consents, and protects patients from cost-sharing obligations that exceed in-network amounts.

Rick and Andy Sobczyk, a senior manager with Coker Group, also discussed the act's impact on healthcare providers (facilities and providers that are out of network) and the act’s key provisions impacting their revenue stream.

Listen to the podcast below.

Over the past 24 months, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has brought notable enforcement efforts against several non-profit covered entities and business associates, resulting in instances of six and seven-figure penalties against providers across the county for incidents involving breaches of protected health information.

A new amendment to New York state law, which would have required all healthcare providers to obtain separate consents from patients for treatment and payment is on hold until further guidance is released, according to the New York Department of Health.

On November 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2025 final rule, which establishes new advanced primary care management billing codes that will expand opportunities for physician practices, federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics and other health care providers to get paid for services provided by clinical staff under the direction of a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant beginning January 1, 2025.

Rick Hindmand featured on Coffee with Coker podcast

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