In This Issue: - Third Circuit Panel Liberalizes “Protected Activity” Immunity for Employees Claiming Whistleblower Status - Doing Time: A Requirement for White Collar Crime? - Casting a Smaller Net:...more
4/23/2013 - CMS Continuing Medical Education Financial Conduct Authority Fraud GPOs Protected Activity Publicly-Traded Companies Sarbanes-Oxley Settlement Shareholders Sunshine Act Transparency Whistleblower Protection Policies Whistleblowers White Collar Crimes
The final regulations implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act take effect April 9, 2013. Pharmaceutical manufacturers, group purchasing organizations, academic medical centers and physicians need to be ready to...more
4/9/2013 - Affordable Care Act CMS Compliance Final Rules Healthcare Pharmaceutical Physicians Sunshine Act
Physician-owned distributorships continue to attract federal scrutiny. A new OIG Alert highlights health care transactions that make these distributorships vulnerable to enforcement activity. ...more
3/28/2013 - Anti-Kickback Statute Fraud HHS Medical Devices OIG Physician-Owned Distributors Physicians Sunshine Act
The OIG recently posted an Advisory Opinion which concluded that a hospital's proposal to provide free access to an electronic interface between the hospital and area physicians for laboratory and diagnostic services was not...more
1/7/2013 - Anti-Kickback Statute CMS Electronic Medical Records Electronics Hospitals OIG Physicians Remuneration
On October 30, 2012, the Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services ("OIG") posted an Advisory Opinion stating it would not challenge an arrangement in which a non-profit hospital pays per diem...more
11/30/2012 - HHS OIG
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