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

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

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

The Anti-Kickback Statute and its Implications on Medical Practices

The Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) protects healthcare beneficiaries from the influence of money in their medical decision-making. Overall, the AKS criminalizes renumeration “intended to induce patient referrals or influence the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Unpacking the Anti-Kickback and Stark Reforms: Promoting Value-Based Care and Easing Regulatory Compliance - January...

A New Manatt Webinar Guides You Through New Reforms Promoting Value-Based Care and Easing Regulatory Compliance—the Most Significant Changes to the Federal Fraud and Abuse Landscape in the Last Decade. On November 20,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Big Changes for Health Care Fraud and Abuse: HHS Gifts Providers Updates to the Stark Law and the AKS, Just in Time for the...

On November 20, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) promulgated much-anticipated and significant final rules intended to “modernize” and “clarify”...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Re-Mapping the Fraud and Abuse Landscape: Understanding Proposed Reforms - February 13th, 1:00 pm ET

What larger healthcare goals are fueling the proposed revisions to AKS and Stark? What safe harbors and exceptions are introduced in the proposed rules? And what would the potentially transformational changes mean for...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

New Safe Harbors In A Storm of Risk and Regulations: A Review of the OIG’s Proposed Changes to the Federal Anti-Kickback Laws

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In an effort to modernize and clarify a statute that looms large in the minds of health care providers across the nation, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

CMS and OIG propose changes to existing rules for donations of electronic health records and new rules for donations of...

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On October 9, 2019, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released proposed changes to the regulations interpreting the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). On the same day, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...more

WilmerHale

Proposed Changes to Stark and Anti-Kickback Regulations May Provide New Flexibility for Healthcare Providers

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On October 9, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced proposals for a number of new and revised exceptions to the Stark Law and safe harbors for the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) that are intended to...more

Holland & Hart - Health Law Blog

Sports and Student Physicals: Legal Issues

It’s that time of year when many healthcare providers offer free or discounted sports or student physicals as a community service or marketing ploy. If you participate in such programs, make sure you consider the legal...more

King & Spalding

OIG Warns Information Blocking May Affect Safe Harbor Protection

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In an alert published October 6, 2015, the OIG reminded the public that “information blocking”—generally described as individuals or entities knowingly and unreasonably interfering with the exchange or use of electronic...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Final EHR Donation Rules Issued in Time for the New Year

On December 27, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued final rules revising the Stark exception (42 CFR...more

BakerHostetler

OIG and CMS Issue Proposals to Extend Safe Harbor and Exception for EHR Donations

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In the April 10 Federal Register, two agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published proposed rules that many healthcare providers have been anxiously awaiting affecting donations of electronic...more

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

OIG Provides Direction and CMS Seeks Direction Relating to Electronic Activities in the Health Care Delivery System

The OIG recently posted an Advisory Opinion which concluded that a hospital's proposal to provide free access to an electronic interface between the hospital and area physicians for laboratory and diagnostic services was not...more

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