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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - May 9th - 10th, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance education on a wide variety of current and emerging topics...more

Snell & Wilmer

Scope of FCA Liability Illustrated In Recent Actions Against Higher Education Institutions

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In the past five years, the Federal Government and “Qui Tam” Realtors have ramped up False Claims Act (“FCA”) actions against higher education institutions. These actions highlight the scope and breadth of potential FCA...more

Butler Snow LLP

Health Care Due Diligence: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

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Due diligence properly performed in connection with the purchase and sale of a health care entity is simply different—vastly so—than due diligence performed in other contexts. Failure to recognize this reality can lead to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] 2024 Managed Care Compliance Conference - January 29th - 30th, Coronado, CA

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Explore the unique issues that are pertinent to managed care professionals! This annual event dedicated to compliance management for health plan providers is returning to an in-person format for 2024. Join your peers and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] 2023 Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 5th - 7th, Washington, DC

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Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference to...more

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News Briefs: July 2023

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Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 32, no 25 (July 2023) Hospices in four states will face heightened oversight. “CMS is placing newly enrolling hospices located in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Texas in a provisional...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | April 2023 Recap

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This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for April 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions related to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the...more

Buchalter

Taste-Testing Cybersecurity Compliance: A Recipe for Disaster in Government Contracting

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative continues to raise the stakes for government contractors. This initiative uses the False Claims Act (“FCA”) to hold government contractors accountable for knowingly...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 7th - 9th, 8:55 am - 3:30 pm CST

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Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us virtually at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance...more

Harris Beach PLLC

OIG Enforcement Summary: July 16, 2022 – July 31, 2022

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The following is a summary of the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported are...more

Goodwin

Pharma Manufacturer Federal Government Price Reporting: Recent Litigation and Settlements

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​​​​​​​Litigation involving drug price reporting under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (MDRP)  has been very active in 2022. Most recently, on August 3, 2022, an Illinois federal jury levied a $61 million verdict against Eli...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Continued: Summary of Fraud and Abuse Enforcement Yields Insight for Health Care Compliance and Risk Assessment

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The following is a summary of the federal Health and Human Services agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported are based...more

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Summary of Fraud and Abuse Enforcement Yields Insight for Health Care Compliance and Risk Assessment

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The following is a summary of the federal Health and Human Services agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported are based...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

The Importance Of Updating Compliance Programs For Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living And Other Residential Care Facilities

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Skilled Nursing Facilities in particular and to a lesser extent other types of Residential Care Facilities, including Assisted Living Facilities and Behavioral Health Facilities, have always been under the government’s...more

The Volkov Law Group

Merit Medical Systems Settles False Claims Act Case for $18 Million (Part I of II)

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Medical device maker Merit Medical Systems (“MMS”) agreed to pay $18 million to resolve allegations that the company submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE by paying kickbacks to physicians and hospitals to...more

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Universal Health Agrees to Pay $122 Million for False Claims Act Violations

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DOJ announced a False Claims Act settlement with Universal Health (“UHS”) and related companies for $122 million for billing for medically unnecessary inpatient behavioral health services, failing to provide adequate services...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 15. News Briefs: April 2020 #2

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Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 15 (April 20, 2020) - Maury Regional Medical Center in Tennessee has agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle false claims allegations over MS-DRG coding, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Justice Department recovers more than $3 billion from False Claims Act cases in FY 2019

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Compliance Today (March 2020) - In January, Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division announced that it “obtained more than $3 billion in settlements and judgments from civil...more

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Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 9. News Briefs: March 2020

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Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 9 (March 9, 2020) - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said March 5 it has filed a False Claims Act complaint against SpineFrontier Inc., Impartial Medical...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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 2. News Briefs: January 2020 #2

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Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 2 (January 20, 2020) - - The HHS Office of Inspector General has updated its Work Plan, which includes an item on early discharges from inpatient rehabilitation facilities to home...more

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White Collar Year in Preview: False Claims Act Trends in 2020

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Editors’ Note: This is the fourth in our start-of-year series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. Our previous entry discussed anti-corruption trends in 2020. Up next: a look...more

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Boston Heart Diagnostics Pays $26.67 Million to Settle False Claims Act Case

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Boston Heart Diagnostics, a Massachusetts company, agree to pay $26.7 million to settle a False Claims Act case involving allegations of paying illegal kickbacks to physicians....more

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Focusing on “Payments” to Healthcare Professionals (Part I of III)

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The United States healthcare industry poses an infinite number of risks when it comes to interactions with healthcare professionals. Given the aggressive regulation and enforcement of prohibitions against kickbacks and...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Monitoring in Healthcare: An Innovative Strategy for Compliance

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This week, I am running a special five-part podcast series, Monitoring in Healthcare. In it, I take a deep dive into healthcare monitoring and how the pro-active use of a healthcare monitor can positively impact all...more

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