False Claims Act Insights - Are All Healthcare “Kickbacks” Subject to FCA Liability?
Hospice Insights Podcast - Stories of Successful Hospice Leadership: The CEO and Chief Medical Officer Relationship
Understanding Trends and Challenges in the Behavioral Health Sector
The DEA Is Knocking at Your Door . . . Are You Prepared? – Diagnosing Health Care
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 4: What to Do When Insurance Companies Deny Behavioral Health Claims
Hospice Insights Podcast - A Refresh: What’s New in the New OIG General Compliance Program Guidance
The Latest on Healthcare Enforcement
The New FTC Rule Explained: Will Your Non-Compete Be Enforceable?
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 192: Business Issues for Healthcare with Ira Bedenbaugh and Randi Branham of Elliott Davis
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 191: South Carolina Lowcountry Healthcare with Walter Bennet, MUSC Orangeburg CEO
Understanding Scope of Practice
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 188: Healthcare Valuation with Darcy Devine, Founder of Buckhead FMV
#WorkforceWednesday: Navigating Physician Non-Compete Litigation - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Podcast - Conversions of Public Hospitals
Findings from Gibbins’ Annual Healthcare Bankruptcy Report
Compliance, Project Management, and Process Improvement
How One Hospice Owner Got Convicted of Healthcare Fraud and How You Can Avoid That Fate
Year in Review: Key Regulatory Updates in 2023
Episode 172: Matthew Roberts and Lauren DeMoss, Maynard Nexsen Health Care Attorneys
Counsel That Cares - Value-Based Care as a Long-Term Investment
As previously reported, British Columbia, Alberta, and New Brunswick have all launched biosimilar initiatives which require that patients switch from certain reference biologics to biosimilars for certain indications. On May...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 39 (November 2, 2020) - CMS said Oct. 28 that Medicare will pay hospitals extra when they treat inpatients with drugs or biologicals approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...more
Based on their extensive experience advising health care industry clients, Epstein Becker Green attorneys and strategic advisors from EBG Advisors are predicting the “hot” health care sectors for investment, growth, and...more
• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a new proposed reimbursement model for certain Medicare Part B drugs and biologicals. • The proposed structure, called the International Pricing Index (IPI)...more
On February 22, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the tissue graft manufacturer MiMedx Goup, Inc. and its failure to report payments to physicians under CMS’s Open Payments Program established by the Centers...more
• Congress amended current law to prevent CMS from applying the “MIPS” payment adjustment to separately billed items like drugs and biologics, which will drastically reduce the total amount of payment adjustments to clinical...more
The New Jersey Attorney General plans to finalize new limits on payments and other benefits that New Jersey licensed prescribers may accept from pharmaceutical manufacturers, although the expected final rule is less...more
On November 28, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule titled “Medicare Program; Contract Year 2019 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Cost Plan,...more
Lessons From the Frontlines: Strategies for Supporting Informed Consumer Decision-Making in the Health Insurance Marketplace - Editor's Note: As marketplaces prepare for the third open enrollment period, consumers are...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched this week REMS@FDA, a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) database website. The new, user-friendly website contains a table of all currently approved individual...more
This Week: House Ways & Means Committee Holds Markup; Makes Significant Legislative Changes to Health Care Bills... Senate Finance Committee Holds Markup on Medicare Appeals Process Bill... CMS Issues Final Rule on...more
On February 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule implementing the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (the “Act”). The Act requires certain manufacturers of covered drugs, devices, and...more
The Final Rule implementing the Physician Payment Sunshine Act was announced on February 1st and published in the Federal Register on February 8th. The Final Rule establishes procedures for drug and device manufacturers to...more
On February 8, 2013, 16 months after the statutory deadline, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published in the Federal Register the final regulation implementing the physician payment transparency...more
Reports on Physician Ownership and Investment Interests The Sunshine Act requires applicable manufacturers, as well as applicable GPOs, to report to the Secretary, in electronic form, certain information concerning...more
This afternoon, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the long-awaited final rule (Final Rule) implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act). The Sunshine Act requires manufacturers of...more