On May 31, 2017, the DOJ announced a $155 million settlement with eClinicalWorks (ECW), one of the nation’s largest electronic health records (EHR) vendors, to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by a whistleblower. ...more
On April 14, 2017, CMS issued the annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Rule for FY 2018 (the “Proposed Rule”) which will affect discharges on or after October 1, 2017. CMS estimates that IPPS operating...more
In an effort to align State leaders on Medicaid expansion, a group of Republican governors have drafted a proposal, available here, to allow States to obtain additional Medicaid expansion funding, even if those States did not...more
On September 20, 2016, CMS and the OIG jointly published a proposed rule, available here, to amend the largely unchanged 1978 regulation governing State Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs). Since the initial issuance of the...more