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Triage: Rapid Legal Lessons for Busy Health Care Professionals is a podcast created by the K&L Gates health care practice group to inform our clients and friends of the firm about the latest developments in health law. If you would like to provide feedback or would like to suggest a topic for a future episode of Triage, please contact usUse the icons below to subscribe to Triage via your favorite podcast app to have our episodes delivered directly to you as they become available.

Nov 14, 2022

In this episode, Darlene Davis, Andrew Ruskin, and Lauren Norris Donahue review data that is now available in light of the hospital price transparency rule. They discuss the recent increase in compliance among hospitals, benefits of hospital price transparency data, antitrust considerations, and suggestions for...


Jul 5, 2022

In this episode, Gabriel Scott and Darlene Davis analyze the private payor rates reporting requirements under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act. They discuss the type of entities required to report, potential penalties for failing to report, and provide some suggestions for how to initiate the reporting process.


Jan 31, 2022

Andrew Ruskin and Gabriel Scott discuss how Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently promulgated rules implementing the provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act that affect a very large number of community hospitals. Specifically, due to CMS’s interpretation of Medicare graduate medical...


Nov 3, 2020

In this episode, Jackie Hoffman addresses the challenges of providers, and those who advise providers, to identify available resources and maximize reimbursement in the face of the costs of care of uninsured and underinsured patients with COVID-19, or where providers generally face reimbursement challenges due to...


Jul 17, 2020

In this week’s episode, Stephen Bittinger discusses the impending resumption of Medicare error-based audits, which were temporarily suspended following the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. Mr. Bittinger discusses the different forms of audits that are set to resume, potential focus points that auditors may target,...