702-307-4880

 702-307-4880

 702-307-4880

 702-307-4880

 702-307-4880

 702-307-4880

  • Home
  • Firm Overview
  • Professionals
  • Practice Areas
    • > Healthcare
    • > Business & Corporate Law
    • > Administrative Law
    • > General Counsel Services
  • News
  • Make A Payment
  • Contact
  • Menu
    • Home
    • Firm Overview
    • Professionals
    • Practice Areas +
    • > Healthcare
    • > Business & Corporate Law
    • > Administrative Law
    • > General Counsel Services
    • News
    • Make A Payment
    • Contact

Humana, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna fall in new MA star ratings

October 10, 2024

Nona Tepper  
Tim Broderick 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sought to make it more challenging for Medicare Advantage insurers to win top quality scores and the payment bonuses that go along with them. It’s working.

On Thursday, CMS released the latest Medicare Advantage star ratings, and the contrast to just a few years ago is stark. In 2022, 74 Medicare Advantage with prescription drug coverage contracts garnered five-out-of-five stars. For the 2025 plan year, only seven did.

2025 Medicare Advantage market takes shape amid turmoil

October 07, 2024

Lauren Berryman   

Next year’s Medicare Advantage landscape appears relatively stable on the surface. But beneath that lie notable coverage cutbacks health insurers made to recover margins after a turbulent year.

The large number of Medicare Advantage plans available for 2025 and a lower average premium tell one story. Insurers exiting geographic markets, reducing benefits and imposing higher out-of-pocket costs reveal another. Just over half of nearly 67 million Medicare beneficiaries are on Medicare Advantage and open enrollment begins a week from Tuesday.

CVS' Oak Street Health pays $60M to settle kickback allegations

September 18, 2024

Katherine Davis

Chicago-based healthcare firm Oak Street Health has agreed to pay $60 million to resolve allegations from the U.S. Department of Justice that it paid kickbacks to third-party insurance agents in exchange for recruiting seniors to Oak Street’s primary care clinics.

The DOJ alleged in a statement today that Oak Street’s Client Awareness Program, designed to grow patient membership, had third-party insurance agents contacting seniors eligible for or enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, seeking to recruit them to Oak Street locations.

Specter of strict DEA prescribing rule rattles telehealth sector

September 04, 2024

Bridget Early   
Gabriel Perna 

Telehealth industry and mental health groups are scrambling amid fears the Drug Enforcement Administration is poised to place strict limits on remote prescribing of controlled substances such as Adderall and Vicodin.

The legal authority for clinicians to prescribe DEA-regulated medications through platforms such as Talkiatry expires in less than four months, and the law enforcement agency has moved slowly to issue a final rule after the draft version released last year triggered protests from providers and telehealth companies.

Federal judge blocks FTC noncompete ban

August 20, 2024

Caroline Hudson   

The Federal Trade Commission does not have authority to enact its ban on noncompete agreements, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Judge Ada Brown wrote the FTC’s near-total ban is “unreasonably overbroad without a reasonable explanation,” siding with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and tax firm Ryan LLC. Many healthcare organizations include noncompete agreements in employment contracts.

Maria Nutile named 2025 Best Lawyers® "Lawyer of the Year" in Las Vegas Area

August 15, 2024

Nutile Law attorney Maria Nutile was recently recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” for Health Care Law in the Las Vegas area.

Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this honor especially significant. Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review and reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Envision leaves California, dodging major private equity verdict

July 25, 2024

MICHAEL MCAULIFF   

Envision Healthcare, a top private equity-backed emergency physician staffing company, is exiting California and avoiding a lawsuit that threatened the legality of its business model in the state.

The Nashville, Tennessee-based company had been battling the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, which sued in 2021 after Envision Healthcare won a contract that the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group previously held at Placentia-Linda Hospital in Placentia, part of the Orange-based University of California, Irvine Health system.

Hospitals work through fallout from CrowdStrike outage

July 22, 2024

BROCK E.W. TURNER   
HAYLEY DESILVA   
GABRIEL PERNA 

Health systems and hospitals expect many applications, computers and other systems to be back online early this week after Friday’s global CrowdStrike outage.

On Sunday, large systems including Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health, Cleveland Clinic and Renton, Washington-based Providence said their systems were fully functional, or they expected them to be by Monday.

FTC, state scrutiny of noncompetes shifts labor market

July 17, 2024

ALEX KACIK  

Health systems are rethinking their use of noncompete agreements despite a Texas court ruling that may doom the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on those employment contract provisions.

Companies are girding for more litigation, regulation and legislation seeking to limit noncompetes, even if the FTC’s effort to eliminate those agreements falls short, attorneys said. Many healthcare employers are turning to nondisclosure and nonsolicitation provisions in place of noncompete clauses that restrict employees from working for a rival organization. If employers are still using noncompetes, physicians and other healthcare workers are increasingly pushing back, employment lawyers said.

HHS, FBI issue phishing, ransomware attack advisory for providers

June 27, 2024

BROCK E.W. TURNER   

The federal government is warning providers and public health entities about certain types of cyber attacks and advising them not pay ransoms.

An advisory issued this week by the Health and Human Services Department and the FBI said criminals are using social engineering campaigns to target healthcare, public health entities and providers. Phishing schemes are being used to steal login credentials that give bad actors access to payment information.

12345
Recent Posts
  • Health industry blasts Senate passage of $1T in healthcare cuts
  • Dozens of insurers vow to ease off prior authorizations
  • Medicare Advantage sector’s hopes dashed as Trump keeps up pressure
  • What the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ does on healthcare
  • Elevance Health dealt second ‘ghost network’ lawsuit
Archives
  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • May 2025
  • April 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • February 2017

CONTACT US

Phone: 702-307-4880

Toll Free: 877-307-4880

Fax: 702.307.4881
Address: 7395 S. Pecos Rd. Suite 103 Las Vegas, NV 89120
Email: info@nutilelaw.com

The State Bar of Nevada does not certify any attorney as an expert or specialist in any area of law.  References made to the practice areas of Nutile Law, and any individual attorney, describe experience and focus in such practice areas but do not represent any specialty or expertise.

Phone: 702-307-4880
Toll Free: 877-307-4880
Fax: 702.307.4881
Address: 7395 S. Pecos Rd. Suite 103 Las Vegas, NV 89120
Email: Maria@nutilelaw.com

The State Bar of Nevada does not certify any attorney as an expert or specialist in any area of law.  References made to the practice areas of Nutile Law, and any individual attorney, describe experience and focus in such practice areas but do not represent any specialty or expertise.

NAVIGATE

›  Home

›  Make a Payment

›  Health Care

›  Business & Corporate Law

›  Administrative Law

›  General Counsel Services

›  Firm Overview

›  Professional

›  News

›  Contact

OUR LOCATION

Copyright © 2017-2023 Nutile Law Powered by WebKitty