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Medicare Revocations and Enrollment Denials: Proposed Rule Adds False Claims Act Judgments and Misdemeanors; Creates New “Stay of...

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Continuing a now annual tradition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has included expansions and enhancements to its authorities to deny enrollment or revoke a provider’s Medicare billing privileges...more

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Government Scrutiny Expected of Providers That Furnished OTC COVID-19 Tests to Medicare Patients

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In April 2022, CMS announced an initiative to pay for Medicare beneficiaries to receive free OTC COVID-19 test kits. Specifically, Medicare established a demonstration project to pay various eligible healthcare providers to...more

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What to Expect as OIG and CMS Audits Focus on COVID-19 Testing?

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an enormous need for testing and has spawned the creation of new labs and specimen collection agencies to (try to) meet that need. In 2020 alone, Medicare spent $1.5 billion on COVID-19 tests....more

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Healthcare Law Update: February 2020

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Neurosurgeons' Compensation in Top 10 Percent Nationwide Gives Rise to Stark Act and FCA Claims - In United States ex re. Bookwalter v. UPMC, 946 F. 3d 162 (3d Cir. 2019), the court ruled that the relators stated a Stark...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Designing Clinical Studies To Avoid Regulatory Scrutiny

Practical advice following the Primex Clinical Laboratories settlement - Earlier this year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a $3.5 million settlement against Primex Clinical Laboratories, a California laboratory...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The Life Sciences Report - Spring 2015

In This Issue: - The Rise of Companion Diagnostics in Personalized Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities - Department of Justice Imposes More Than $110 Million in Fines on Medical Device Makers - Life...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Courts of Appeals Continue to Limit the Government’s Aggressive False Claims Act Theories

This spring saw two significant victories for health care providers in the federal courts of appeals. In both cases, the courts rejected an aggressive government theory under the False Claims Act (FCA), the first related to...more

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