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Medicare Advantage Programs’ Increasing Popularity Invites Heightened FCA and Regulatory Scrutiny

As Medicare Advantage attracts more eligible beneficiaries, it is also drawing attention from False Claims Act (FCA) prosecutors. In 2022, enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans reached 28.7 million Medicare beneficiaries, or...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Lessons Learned from FCA Settlement Involving Waiver of Medicare Coinsurance Amounts

The waiver of copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles owed by patients treated by out-of-network laboratories and other providers is a hot topic in the health care industry. Despite the near absence of clear legal...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Laboratories – 2015 Year in Review [VIDEO]

Over the past year, significant regulatory changes began to take shape that will have lasting effects on the laboratory industry for years to come. After publishing draft guidance regarding the regulation of laboratory...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

OIG and MA Plan Sponsor Settle Allegations of Altering Records Submitted During Audit

Bravo Health Pennsylvania, Inc. (Bravo), a Medicare Advantage Plan Sponsor and subsidiary of Cigna Corporation, agreed to pay $225,000 to the Government for allegedly misrepresenting or falsifying information furnished to the...more

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