By Reed Tinsley As the year winds to a close, it’s time to start thinking of any last-minute strategies that might benefit you. While there was no new tax legislation of note this year, the ramifications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) are still around and will be for years, absent any new legislation to unwind its provisions. Probably one of the most important areas of year-end tax planning is...
By Beth Anne Jackson and Allison D. Shelton, Brown & Fortunato, P.C. On October 17, 2019, two agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finally proposed rules (Proposed Rules) intended to reduce the regulatory risk of value-based arrangements (VBAs) in health care. Specifically, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new exceptions to the physician self-referral law (Stark Law). Meanwhile, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) proposed changes...
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By Mauro Ramirez and Felix Digilov, Fisher Phillips On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced significant changes to fundamental requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which will expand overtime pay obligations to an estimated 1.3 million additional workers. This new “overtime rule” will take effect in a few weeks, on January 1, 2020. Coupled with a historically tight labor market, the changes could place greater strain on health...
By Victor S. Sierpina, MD As the search for the Holy Grail of treating Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias sputters along at a painstakingly slow pace, it turns out we may have overlooked a remarkably effective and low-cost approach: using nature and gardens therapeutically. In a well-done scholarly review article (1), the benefits of a variety of gardening approaches have been demonstrated to improve the lives of dementia patients and their families. The article...
By Ted Shaw, President/CEO, Texas Hospital Association From October 2018 to September 2019, a coalition of health care providers in southeast Texas surpassed its goal of reducing patients’ glycated hemoglobin levels, an important marker of how well a person is managing their diabetes. With funding from the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program through Texas’ Medicaid 1115 Waiver, local hospital emergency departments, community paramedics, the local health department, a federally qualified health center and social...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center opened its newest free-standing facility in The Woodlands. Serving patients in The Woodlands, Spring, Conroe, and communities north of Houston, MD Anderson Cancer Center The Woodlands offers local, convenient access. To keep pace with population growth, MD Anderson relocated its previous facility in The Woodlands to a larger building designed for the best possible experience for patients and care providers. The new building, located at the corner of College Park...
A new study by researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston uncovered new information on why the Ebola virus can exert such catastrophic effects on the infected person. They’ve described for the first time how the virus disables T cells, an important line of immune defense, thus rendering the infected person less able to combat the infection. Ebola virus disease is one of the most devastating infectious diseases known to exist, with previous outbreaks...
The search for effective biological tools is a marathon, not a sprint, even when the distances are on the microscale. A discovery at Rice University on how engineered communities of cells communicate is a long step in the right direction. The Rice Lab of synthetic biologist transcriptional circuits that, when added to (and expressed by) the genomes of single-cell microbes, allows them to quickly form a network of local interactions to spur collective action, even...
Houston Methodist Primary Care Group is pleased to announce Johneca Broussard, D.O., is welcoming patients at the Riverstone practice, located at 18717 S. University Blvd., Suite 105, Sugar Land, Texas 77479. Broussard is a board-certified family physician providing preventive, chronic, and acute care for adult men and women. Her clinical expertise includes complete physicals, health screenings, routine immunizations, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes management, thyroid concerns, rash and skin problems, men health, women’s health,...
