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Bloomberg BNA’s Health Law Resource
Center. Select any of these options:
• First-Time User Setup –
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction. ................... 4
Overview of content/features
included in the Health Law
Resource Center.
Home Pages. ................... 5
Highlights of the user-friendly home
pages and menu bar.
Indexes. ....................... 8
Topical access to content.
Search/Advanced Search. ....... 9
Search for specific cases and
the other information needed
for your research.
Find Cases. ................... 10
Locate multiple cases.
Go To . ........................ 11
Using the citation, go to a case,
document, or Portfolio.
Search My BNA. ............... 12
Simultaneously search in all
Bloomberg BNA titles with
active subscriptions.
Search Results ................ 13
Highlights of the Search Results
page and toolbar.
News ......................... 14
Current News and Resource Center
Update of interest.
Federal Laws, Regulations,
Agency Documents............ 15
Primary source laws, regulations,
and agency documents.
Federal Health Care
Regulatory Alert . .............. 16
Track key regulatory actions.
CMS Manuals and Transmittals . 17
Browse or search CMS Manuals
and transmittals (2004 - present).
State Laws. ................... 18
Legislative and regulatory
developments and the Regulatory
Summary tool.
Legal Analysis. ................ 22
Health Law and Business Portfolios,
Health Care Compliance Guide, and
six e-treatises.
Practice Tools. ................ 25
Practical aids for the health
care legal professional.
Health Care Reform Adviser .... 26
Detailed analysis of the insurance,
tax, and benefits provisions of the
Affordable Care Act.
Settlement Agreement
Navigator. ..................... 27
Filter for Fraud Settlement
agreements by parties, date, type,
violation, court, settlement amount,
and related CIA.
My Folders. ................... 28
Save and retrieve charts,
documents, and searches.
BNA Insights, Video Insights. ... 29
Articles and videos offering
practitioner insights on the current
issues affecting
health law.
Print. ......................... 30
Information on how to print single or
multiple documents.
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ON THE GO APP
Bloomberg BNA Health Law Resource Center subscribers get comprehensive, on-the-go access to health law analysis, news,
integrated source material, and search features with the ON THE GO App for iPhone ® and iPad ® .
Go to www.bna.com/resource-centers-on-the-go/ to download the free Bloomberg BNA On The Go App. The Health Care
Law Resource Center application is available on iPhone and/or iPad devices. This app requires iOS 6 or greater for an iPad, and
installation of iTunes ® is required to download the app.
Bloomberg BNA ON THE GO App content is available to Bloomberg BNA subscribers only. Use your Bloomberg BNA
username and password to get started.
1. On your iPhone/iPad, go to the ON THE GO App on the iTunes store.
2. Select the FREE button to download the app of your choice; it will then become a green INSTALL button. Select the
INSTALL button to begin installation of the application. There is no charge for the ON THE GO application; however a
Bloomberg BNA Health Law Resource Center subscription is required to access the content.
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The Health Law Resource Center
provides intuitive and comprehensive
access to Bloomberg BNA’s health law
news, federal and state statutes and
regulations, analysis, treatises, case law,
and practice tools. The platform covers
all areas of health law, filtered into Business
& Taxation; Fraud, Abuse & Compliance;
Health Information Technology; Health
Insurance & Benefits; Hospital & Provider
Regulation; Medicare & Medicaid;
and Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences.
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Bloomberg BNA’s content is created
by the legal publishing industry’s largest
and most experienced editorial staff. Our
legal editors are subject-matter experts
— not generalists. The legal editors of
Bloomberg BNA’s Health Law Resource
Center review all health law cases, then
draw upon decades of experience to
carefully identify the significant points
that every health practitioner needs. The
editors also analyze and pull together
the relevant laws and regulations.
The Health Law Resource Center has an
intuitive search interface with advanced
search capabilities, and simple, easy-touse
navigation.
The Resource Center contains:
• BNA’s Health Care Daily Report
• BNA’s Health Law Reporter
• CMS Medicare Manuals
• Health Law Analysis and Practice Tools
• BNA Insights articles and videos
featuring expert analysis from leading
practitioners on key developments and
trends in health law practice
• Bloomberg BNA Books – seven
health-related titles
• Federal Health Care Regulatory Alert
• State Health Care Regulatory Alert
• Health Care Legislative Alert
• People on the Move newsfeed
which tracks personnel changes
in the legal industry
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HOME PAGES
The main home page contains links to all
content included in your subscription,
including BNA’s Health Care Daily Report,
BNA’s Health Law Reporter, BNA Insights,
and BNA Video Insights.
Access all topic pages with the tabs at the top
of every page, or by photo icons for selected
topic pages on the left side of the home page.
MENU BAR
The menu bar is located above the banner and contains links for Site Map, Preferences, My Folders, Account Profile,
Getting Started, About, Contact Us, Help, Sign Out, and Text Size.
BANNER
The banner displays on all pages in the Health Law Resource Center. In addition to the menu bar, find the Quick Search text box,
and links to: Search History, Saved Searches, Saved Reports, Advanced Search, Go To, Find Cases, Health Care Blog,
Facebook, Bloomberg BNA Authors and Advisors, and Search My BNA.
Quick Search – search in all collections included in your subscription. When you are working in a collection, the banner displays the
added option to search in All or the Selected Collection.
Search History/Saved Searches/Saved Reports – searches are retained in the Search History queue for 90 days. Save them to retain
a search past 90 days. To access a saved search or saved report, click Saved Searches or Saved Reports.
Advanced Search – use the Advanced Search template to design a search within a specific collection. Options for field searching and
date limiters are also available on the template.
Go To – use Go To to locate a document, case or Expert Analysis with a full or partial citation.
Find Cases – locate case law with full or partial citations.
Health Care Blog – written by Bloomberg BNA’s editors, keeps you abreast of the latest news in health care.
Facebook – follow Bloomberg BNA on Facebook.
Sign up for email updates – see page 2 for detailed information.
Authors and Advisers – list of the leading health law experts contributing to the Health Law Resource Center.
Search My BNA – conduct a cross-product search in all of your subscriptions. Note: this feature only displays if you subscribe to more than
one Bloomberg BNA service.
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HOME
The Resource Center opens to the home page.
Set As My
Home Page
To choose an
alternate home page,
click the Set As My
Home Page link.
The Resource Center
will open to the
selected home page.
Topic Home Pages
Either click the tabs
or the photo icon in
the left column to
access selected
topic home pages.
Today’s Top
Headlines
Daily health care
law related news.
Legal Analysis
Health Law &
Business
Portfolios, BNA
Compliance
Guidance, and
BNA Books.
Federal Laws,
Regulations, and
Agency Documents
Includes access
to federal regulatory
alerts and CMS
Manuals and
Transmittals.
Latest Health
Care Case
Recent case law
relevant to health law.
State Laws &
Regulations
Includes access to
the legislative and
regulatory alerts.
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Topic Home Pages
Topic home pages consolidate cases, news, and analysis content pertinent to the topic of each tab. Click the drop-down menu under
More Search Tools to display the additional option to Search This Tab. Click Search This Tab to use a preloaded Advanced
Search template with all content included on a topic home page.
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INDEXES
Bloomberg BNA Indexes are compiled by a dedicated staff of legal-subject specialists. To search, use the Advanced Search
template. To browse, use the Topical Index links on the Legal Analysis frame, or the Index links available on the news publication.
Index links on the news publications are listed under Finding Tools on the publication home pages.
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SEARCH
Search the Health Law Resource
Center using the Search frame on
the Home page and on each topic
home page.
Use Quick Search to search all
material included in your subscription.
Enter the search terms and click Go.
Case Searching
Search the cases by citation or
keyword. When searching by citation,
choose whether to Find this case, or
Find cases citing this case.
Search My BNA
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conduct a cross-product
search across all Bloomberg
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to a username and password.
Note: This feature only appears
if you subscribe to more than
one Bloomberg BNA service.
Advanced Search
Select Advanced Search to launch
the Advanced Search template.
Advanced Search
Advanced Search provides maximum flexibility when
formulating a search. Limit the search to a specific
collection(s) and use the optional search fields and
date restrictions to structure a search.
1. Select the collections to
be searched.
2. Enter the search terms or
search string into the search box.
3. [Enter] or click Search.
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Fielded Searches
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The searchable fields are specific to the collections being searched, and multiple fields can be searched simultaneously.
After the collections are
selected, use as many fields
as needed to complete the
search string.
1. In the Fields frame, choose
to Show shared fields, or
Show fields from all
selected collections.
2. Select a field(s) from
the Choose a field
drop-down menu.
3. Enter your search terms in
the text box next to Choose
a field.
4. Click Add to Search to
add the terms to the search
string in the Search Term(s)
text box.
5. Click Search to launch
the search.
FIND CASES
To find cases by citation, click Find Cases on the banner and open the Find Cases template.
Enter a full or partial citation and click Go. Use wildcards as needed.
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GO TO
Click Go To on the banner to locate documents, cases, or Portfolios with a full or partial citation.
Use the drop-down menus and enter a full or partial citation, then click Go. Use wildcards as needed (see Find Cases, page 10).
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SEARCH MY BNA
Search across all Bloomberg
BNA products registered under
a user name and password.
Search My BNA only appears if
you subscribe to more than one
BNA product.
Click Search My BNA on the
banner or search frame to access
the cross-product search function.
To include subscriptions to other
Bloomberg BNA products with
additional user names and
passwords, click SIGN IN FOR
ADDITIONAL CONTENT.
Subscriptions are arranged
by product category. Drill down
a product category and either
select individual product(s), or
click the checkbox next to a
category name to select all
products included in a category.
Enter search term(s) and set
an optional date restriction.
Click SEARCH.
Search My BNA Search Results
Click a document title to view the full text of the document. Search results may list similar documents also published in other titles.
Click the Hide Similar (X) link to hide the document list. To access full functionality (e.g.: Share and Add to My Folders), choose
to view a document in its original source publication.
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SEARCH RESULTS
Search results are initially returned by category: Portfolios,
Analysis & Guides, etc. Click the relevant category to view
the search results list for that category. Search results for
cases are organized by court and are sequential by date
within each court grouping.
Search Results Toolbar
The search results toolbar resides on top of the split screen or full screen of the Search Results display.
On the Search Options bar:
• Search Within Results – use this link to refine a search and limit the results by adding additional search terms or criteria
(available only when using Advanced Search).
• Add a Search to My Folders –save a search string to a folder, click Add to My Folders on the Search Options bar.
See page 28 for information about My Folders functionality.
• Go to Hit – view highlighted search terms and navigate through a document(s).
Results in – toggle between/among the content types listed in the Search Results.
Print – click the Print icon
to launch the print function.
Add a Document to My Folders – click to add a document or chart to a folder. See page 28 for information about
My Folders functionality.
Share – email a link to this document. To access the document, the recipient must have a valid username and password
for the Health Law Resource Center.
Split-Screen View
Simultaneously view the search results list and the full text by using the Split Screen option.
Click Split Screen on the search results toolbar.
Full Screen – click this link to toggle back to the full-screen display.
This Case Cited In – click a category to view where the current case is cited.
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NEWS
Keep up to date with the latest health news:
• Click the Health Care Daily Report tab to access the latest news and updates.
• Click the Health Law Reporter tab for major health care legal news.
• Find direct links to all Bloomberg BNA Health Reports in the All BNA Health Law News Reports frame.
• Link to the latest cases in the Latest Health Care Cases frame.
RESOURCE CENTER UPDATE
Check the Resource Center Update frame and find the content added to the Resource Center.
The updates are arranged chronologically.
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FEDERAL LAWS, REGULATIONS & AGENCY DOCUMENTS
Find specific, pertinent federal source
documents in the Federal Laws, Regs, &
Agency Documents frame. Click a title to
browse the available documents. Use the
Advanced Search template to search in
individual collections.
The Federal Laws, Regs & Agency
Documents frame customizes for
the content included on each subject
tab. Depending on what is included in
your subscription, Agency Documents
can include:
• Antitrust – documents from the
Department of Justice Antitrust Division
and the Federal Trade Commission.
• Fraud & Abuse Compliance –
documents from the Department of
Health & Human Services Office of
Inspector General, Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services, the Department of
Justice Civil and Criminal Divisions, and
the United States Sentencing
Commission; and a separate collection
including DOJ health care fraud
settlements and HHS OIG Corporate
Integrity Agreements beginning in 2006.
• Federal Tax – the Internal Revenue
Code, all Treasury Regulations,
and documents from the Internal
Revenue Service pertaining to
exempt organizations and other health
care issues addressed in the News
Reports and Health Law & Business
Series Portfolios.
• Health Insurance – includes
documents from the CMS Center for
Consumer Information and Insurance
Oversight, National Association of
Insurance Commissioners, and the IRS.
• Medicare Reimbursement –
CMS Medicare Reimbursement
Manuals and Transmittals, Provider
Reimbursement Review Board rulings
since 1997, CMS Administrator decisions
since 2006, CMS rulings since 1995,
and Medicare Appeals Council rulings
issued since 2008.
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Federal Health Care Regulatory Alert
The Federal Health Care Regulatory
Alert tracks key regulatory actions from
10 federal agencies across selected topics
with the Regulatory Summaries Report Tool.
Open the Federal Health Care Regulatory Alert
and click Create Report to access the
Regulatory Summaries Report Tool.
Use the Regulatory Summary Report
Tool to compile regulatory information into
customizable reports, selecting from 40 key
health-related topics.
Select Federal from the Choose
Jurisdictions frame.
Select Topics, Sort Order, and Summary Date.
Click Create Report.
The report displays as an Excel spreadsheet.
To change the format to either PDF or Word,
use the drop-down menu, select the format,
and click View Report.
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CMS Manuals and Transmittals
Browse or search for CMS Manuals and Transmittals.
To browse, click CMS Manuals and Transmittals.
To search, use the Advanced Search template, click Federal Agency Documents, and select any or all of the
CMS Manuals and Transmittals.
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STATE LAWS & REGULATIONS
Link to State Laws and Regulations, the
State Health Care Regulatory Alert, State
Health Care Legislative Alert, and State Law
Topical Surveys.
State Laws & Regulations
Either select a state from the dropdown
menu, or double-click the
state on the map to open the laws
and regulations.
Hover over a state and a pop-up
displays the availability of either
legislative or regulatory information,
or both. Click the state to display
the browsing menus.
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STATE LAWS & REGULATIONS
(CONTINUED)
Search state content with the
Advanced Search template.
State Health Care Regulatory Alert
State Health Care Regulatory Alert
keeps tracks of state regulations. Use
the customizable Regulatory Summary
Report to view specific issues for
specific states.
To access the Regulatory Summary Report
Tool, click Create Report.
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STATE LAWS &
REGULATIONS
(CONTINUED)
Select a Jurisdiction(s).
Select Sort Order, Limit by
Summary Date, and select
Topic(s).
Click Create Report.
The report displays as an Excel
document. To change the format
either to PDF or Word, use the
drop-down menu, select the format,
and click View Report.
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STATE LAWS & REGULATIONS
(CONTINUED)
State Health Care Legislative Alert
The State Health Care Legislative Alert tracks the
latest developments in state health care legislation with
the option to receive email updates
(see page 2 for information on
how to sign up for email updates).
Link to the full text of state laws
for easy browsing, and customizable
monthly recaps.
Click Create Custom Report.
Filter by jurisdiction and topic.
Click a heading to view each
specific filtering menu.
Click Add to My Folders to
save the chart.
State Law Topical Surveys
Comparative surveys that provide information on the health care law in each state for a particular topic, including relevant statutory
citations and summaries of key provisions. The State Law Topical Surveys are sorted by topic. Click the topic to display the full text.
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LEGAL ANALYSIS
Analysis explains the critical health care
issues and includes citations to legislative/
regulatory source materials and case law.
To browse Health Law & Business
Portfolios, the Health Care Compliance
Guide, or the seven Bloomberg BNA
Treatises, click the link in the Legal
Analysis frame.
To search Legal Analysis, use the
Advanced Search template.
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Health Care Program Compliance Guide
Click Health Care Program Compliance Guide in the Legal Analysis frame. Find health care regulatory compliance overviews,
guidelines, and checklists.
Drill down to locate the pertinent documents.
To search the Health Care Program Compliance Guide, use the Advanced Search template.
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BNA Books
Click a title to browse Bloomberg BNA Books
using the links in the Legal Analysis frame.
Supplement content displays with blue shading
when viewing the full text.
To search treatises, use the
Advanced Search template
and select the titles and
supplements under the
Treatises drop-down menu.
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PRACTICE TOOLS
Practice Tools are a collection of practical aids to assist health law
professionals. Click a linked title to access the tool.
To search selected Practice Tools, use Advanced Search.
Affordable Care Act Implementation Monitor
This table tracks the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as amended by the Health Care and
Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. The table is organized by type of reform, and provides a brief explanation of the provisions of
the act, with a link to the text of each provision.
Statutory provisions are grouped into categories: Insurance Reforms and Exchanges, Public Coverage Programs, Delivery
System Reform, Provider and Plan Payment Changes, Financing, Compliance and Transparency, and Other. Click the link
to jump to each grouping.
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Health Care Reform Adviser
View detailed analysis of PPACA provisions relating to tax, insurance, and benefits.
Checklists
Checklists and forms contain
practitioner-authored, annotated
checklists for handling various
transactional and compliance
issues, and related forms.
Corporate Integrity Agreement Navigator
The Navigator includes summary information for significant CIAs between the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General
and health care entities (both business entities and individuals) since 2005.
Click a column heading to filter the information, and create a chart.
To save the charts, click Add to My Folder on the Set Filters banner.
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Settlement Agreement Navigator
Access a collection of more than 300+ fraud settlement
agreements and corresponding corporate integrity agreements
(CIAs) from 2006 to present on the Practice Tools frame.
• To filter the chart, click any of the Set Filters categories.
• Save a chart by clicking Add to My Folders on the Set
Filters banner.
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MY FOLDERS
Use the My Folders feature
to retain a chart, search
string, or document. Log
into Preferences in order
to use this feature.
To retain a search string, click
Add to My Folders in the
Search Options toolbar.
To retain a document or chart,
click Add to My Folders
while viewing the item. Add a
chart, document, or search to
an existing folder, or create a
new folder. Add additional
information as needed, and
click Submit.
Accessing the Saved Items
To retrieve a saved document,
search, or a chart, click
My Folders on the menu bar.
To sort by any column, click the
column heading.
To filter files by type, use the Filter
Currently Applied drop-down menu
and select a filter type.
To display the Folder Options
drop-down menu, click the icon
on the Folders column.
Right-click on the item Name to display
the Item Options drop-down menu.
Click the Notes icon to create a note.
When a file has a note, the + sign next
to the icon is removed.
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INSIGHTS
BNA Insights
Authored by health law practitioners, BNA Insights
offer analysis of key legal, legislative, regulatory, or
business developments, with an emphasis on
practical implications and emerging trends. BNA
Insights are searchable using Advanced Search.
Each tab has subject-specific insights.
BNA Video Insights
BNA Video Insights are incisive analytical
commentaries that provide practical guidance
from practicing attorneys and other thought
leaders. Insights discuss today’s critical
developments and tomorrow’s emerging issues in
health law. The available Video Insights are listed
on the Home page and are searchable using
Advanced Search.
HEALTH CARE
NEWS MONITOR
If included in your subscription,
access information from
thousands of resources on the
Health Care News Monitor.
The News Monitor dashboard
displays filtered news for Health
Care Fraud & Compliance,
Health Insurance,
Pharmaceuticals & Life
Sciences, and Health Care
Blogs & Commentary.
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PRINT
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document(s) from a full-screen display,
document list, or search results page.
The selected documents are displayed in
the Print Dialog box.
To print multiple documents from the
search results list, click the checkbox next
to each document title, and then click the
Print icon. A maximum of 25 documents
can be printed simultaneously.
Segmented Printing
To print segments of Rules and Regulations
included in the Resource Center, click the
Print icon next to a segment.
Print Dialog Box
Select a text format
Print documents in either Printerfriendly
or Rich Text Format (RTF).
When printing more than one document,
select RTF in order to place section
breaks between each document,
otherwise, the documents print as one
concatenated file.
Print or Display your selections
To select and deselect document(s) prior
to printing, use the linked commands in
the print dialog box.
Click the Print/Display Selected
Documents button to launch the print
preview function.
Source Information
The print display opens in a separate window and
adds source and contact information to the top
and bottom of the document(s).
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