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Final North Carolina CON Opportunities for New MRI and PET Scanners and Operating Rooms

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North Carolina’s 2021 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP) includes chances for interested providers to apply to acquire new MRI and PET scanners and to add new Operating Room (OR) capacity in the final certificate of need...more

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Biden Executive Order Targets Competition in Healthcare, Life Sciences to Spur Economic Activity

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On July 9, 2021, President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order (the “Order”) designed to promote competition in the American economy. The Order describes the administration’s concerns with competition in several markets,...more

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COVID-19 Medical Care Costs Eligible For FEMA Public Assistance

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Private nonprofit (“PNP”) organizations that own and/or operate medical facilities, such as hospitals and long term care facilities, are eligible for FEMA Public Assistance (PA) Program disaster relief funds. Under the...more

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Hospital Ventilator and Resource Allocation Guidelines: Minimizing Criminal and Civil Liability

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The surge in COVID-19 cases in the past several weeks has had many hospitals scrambling to put in place allocation guidelines for ventilators or other potentially scarce treatment resources. Many forward-thinking state...more

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HHS Releases Notices of $30 Billion to Healthcare Providers and Suppliers

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On Mach 27, 2020, President Trump signed the CARES Act, providing in part for $100 billion in relief funds to eligible health care providers and suppliers affected by COVID-19. The funding is intended to support...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Making Sense of FDA’s Recent Guidances on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

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To address the COVID-19 public health crisis, FDA issued two immediately in effect guidance documents:  FDA Guidance for Industry (April 2020) Enforcement Policy for Face Masks and Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

COVID-19 Update: Data sharing requests and orders for hospitals

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Recently, health care providers – in particular hospitals – have been requested by the federal government to share data related to the treatment of COVID-19 (coronavirus) patients and have been ordered by the Ohio Department...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 6. News Briefs: February 2020 #3

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Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 6 (February 17, 2020) - Tenet Healthcare Corp. and an affiliated hospital, Desert Regional Medical Center, have agreed to pay $1.41 million to settle False Claims Act (FCA)...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

OIG Releases 2017 Work Plan

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On November 10, 2016, the Office of Inspector General (“the OIG”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”) is charged with ensuring the integrity of more than 100 programs administered by DHHS, including...more

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Health Care Advisory: Highlights of the OIG’s 2016 Work Plan

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On November 2, 2015, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2016 (“2016 Work Plan”).1 The 2016 Work Plan outlines the areas of...more

King & Spalding

D.C. Circuit Remands HHS’ “Per-Click” Equipment Lease Rule to District Court

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The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently considered HHS’s authority to enact a 2008 rule that prohibited physicians who lease equipment to a hospital from doing so on a “per-click basis” while...more

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OIG’s Compendium of Unimplemented Recommendations Highlights Opportunities for Action in FY2013

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The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released its 2012 Compendium of Unimplemented Recommendations (the “Compendium”), a report that summarizes significant monetary and nonmonetary recommendations as a result of...more

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