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The differences between appropriate and fraudulent power wheelchair and scooter billing are very fact-specific, and attorneys need to understand application of the regulations

As employers respond to financial pressures by reducing retiree health care benefits, courts struggle to tackle the legal conflicts arising therefrom.

The “premium subsidy program” under the Affordable Care Act is intended to make it feasible for limited-income individuals to purchase individual health insurance coverage. But patients are going to need extensive attorney help to cope with program requirements.

New regulations increase the rigidity and formalization of medical coding, which may lead to an increase in providers’ legal disputes with patients.

The Department of Health and Human Services is moving ahead with a Medicare Shared Savings Program, a voluntary program that provides incentives to providers to increase their efficiency with patients — possibly raising the specter of malpractice.

 (Editor’s Note:  This is part four of a four-part installment on “How the New Health Care Plan Has Been Misunderstood, Misrepresented, and

Critics have painted a negative picture of the ACA as reducing choice by forcing individuals to purchase insurance. However, the new Health Plan actually improves the number of choices available to the consumer.

Though a single-payer model is more efficient, the public has demonstrated its preference for a “shopping model” for the Health Care System.

Due to legal challenges, 2010′s health care reforms have seen a lack of implementation that will cause headaches after the Supreme Court’s rules on these challenges.

No matter what ruling is handed down by the Supreme Court, the U.S. health care system is in for an extended period of trauma, while still immersed in highly partisan attacks and counter-attacks in the aftermath of the ruling.