Center for Medicare Services (CMS) Issues Final Rules on Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) CMS recently issued final rules on ACOs (under the Medicare Shared Savings Program) that encourage a variety of health care providers to form networks to deliver more efficient care. Initially, CMS proposed that ACO’s share not only in the cost savings generated, but… Read more »
Pittsburgh’s Federal District Court was recently named, among a handful of other federal courts across the country, as a Patent Pilot Program court. In a June 2011 press release, Chief Judge Gary L. Lancaster of the Western District of Pennsylvania announced: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has selected the United States District Court… Read more »
Background Facts of Case Claimant, a stagehand, sustained a back injury on September 11, 2007 while working at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, due to a fall. His injury had been legally described as involving a lumbar level L3-4 disk herniation and a lumbar strain. As a result of the injury, Claimant was paid partial disability… Read more »
Products liability cases often involve out-of-state or out-of-the-country defendants, and a recurring question in such cases is whether the defendant is subject to the jurisdiction of the court in which the case is brought. Near the end of the Supreme Court’s recently completed term, the Court issued opinions in two such cases, which were argued… Read more »
According to a recent special edition article in the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) online MLN Matters, a publication for Medicare professionals, physicians who enrolled in Medicare before March 25, 2011 and provide health care for Medicare patients will be required to revalidate their Medicare enrollment upon receiving notification from their individual administrative contractors…. Read more »
Eight lawyers from Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.) The attorneys who received this distinguished honor are listed below: William Pietragallo, II (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation- Defendants) Mark Gordon (Workers’ Compensation Law- Employers)… Read more »
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On March 25, 2011, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued final regulations implementing the broad and sweeping changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 (“ADAAA”).[1] These final regulations take effect May 24, 2011 and cover employers with 15 or more employees. Congress has stated that the purpose of the ADAAA is… Read more »