For the past four years, AHLA has been publishing an annual list of the top ten issues it sees as the biggest issues for the upcoming year. This year, AHLA's staff identified the following issues as top issues for 2012 in the February edition of AHLA Connections, the official magazine of the AHLA:
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- Healthcare Reform/Supreme Court Ruling on the Constitutionality of the individual mandate.
- Accountable Care Organizations
- Fraud and Abuse Enforcement: Overpayments and Self-Disclosures
- HIPAA Enforcement
- Final Rule Issued on Medical Loss Ratio Requirements Under Healthcare Reform
- The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine
- State-based Health Law Initiatives
- Retail Health Clinics
- Community Benefit, Community Health Needs Assessment
- Sunshine Act--Disclosure of Drug and Devise Manufacturers' Payments to Physicians
If you don't recognize what some of these issues are, I recommend googling them. Otherwise, you can ask your health law attorney if you can borrow a copy of their AHLA Connections. Better yet, you can join AHLA to help you stay abreast of current legal issues in health law. If you join, tell them that I sent you!
More important than these issues, though, is the fact that we can worry about these issues at all. Fortunately for everyone, NASA has determined that the world will not end in December 2012 as the ancient Mayans predicted. It turns out that the planet Nibiru is not going to slam into Earth -- at least so reports the Huffington Post in this article. I'm so relieved. If you read that article, you too can stop worrying about the end of the world and start worrying about micro loss ratios. Although frankly speaking, the planet Nibiru is a more exciting topic than micro loss ratios.
