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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - September 2024 #1

News Briefs - HHS Drops Appeal of Court's Ruling in Hospital Web Tracking Case - The Department of Health and Human Services is dropping its appeal of a June U.S. District Court ruling that vacated the government's...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week in Review: CMS Issues Calendar Year 2025 Proposed Medicare Payment Rules for Physicians and Hospitals

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

12th Annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review - A Critical Resource for Healthcare Providers

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We are pleased to bring you our 12th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review. Our Review provides comprehensive coverage of the most significant civil and criminal enforcement issues facing healthcare providers. Each year, we...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Physicians Beware! Groups Providing DME, Prosthetic Devices, and Other Medical Supplies to Their Medicare Patients Risk Violating...

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When the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) ended on May 11, 2023, many physician groups furnishing certain medical equipment, devices, and/or supplies to their Medicare patients became in violation of the federal...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

False Claims Act Settlements to Know from Q2 2023

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There have been several noteworthy False Claims Act (FCA) settlements in the second quarter of 2023.  Four of these settlements have come in over $20 million. This post summarizes key settlements of interest....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

11th Annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review 2022

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We are pleased to bring you our 11th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review. Our Review provides comprehensive coverage of the most significant civil and criminal enforcement issues facing healthcare providers. Each year, we...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Questions aplenty about medical device-makers paying doctors $3.6 billion

Although Big Pharma has taken deserved heat for selling its drugs by slathering doctors with cheesy tchotchkes, lavish or even cheap meals, and pricey trips, as well as lucrative consulting and speaking opportunities, medical...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

The Philosophy for Investing in Urology: 5 Key Regulatory Risks

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In the wave of physician practice management transactions, urology is poised to be one of the next hot sectors. In addition to the issues to consider in connection with any physician practice transaction, below we discuss...more

Butler Snow LLP

Pro Te: Solutio – Vol. 12, No. 2

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Pro Te: Solutio returns for its second edition of 2019. As the year grinds on, our attorneys at Butler Snow are taking proactive and creative steps to confront and solve the issues that affect our areas of practice. The...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Patient Empowerment Through Technology is Focus of ENGAGE Conference

This follows the blog article posted November 28, “Connection and Innovation Take Center Stage at the Patient ENGAGE Conference” and is the second feature regarding the MedCity ENGAGE conference Nov. 6-7 in San Diego. Here,...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Sunshine Act Expands to Advance Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants

Drug and device manufacturers will need to update their reporting systems and provide new training to their sales staff in the coming years based on changes to the Physician Payment Sunshine Act included in the final opioid...more

King & Spalding

MedPAC Convenes to Discuss Open Payments, Payment for Post-Acute Care, and Other Issues

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On September 10-11, 2015, MedPAC held a meeting to discuss several issues related to the Medicare program, including (1) improving the Open Payments program, which makes public the payments from drug and device manufacturers...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Telehealth Commercial Coverage and Parity Laws: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

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There will always be differences among state laws on telehealth coverage, but what is remarkable is the rapidly increasing pace at which states have been adopting coverage statutes in the last few years, with currently 29...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Washington Healthcare Update

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This Week: FDA Begins Device User Fee Talks with Patients and Consumers Sept. 15... CMS Extends Partial Enforcement Delay of Two-Midnight Policy Through 2015... Alaska Legislature Sues Governor Over Medicaid Expansion....more

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Washington Healthcare Update

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This Week: Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Explores Post-Acute Bundling…CMS Releases First-ever Hospital Compare Star Ratings…Fiscal Year 2016 Proposed Inpatient and Long-term Care Hospital Policy and Payment Changes....more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

The Game Plan for Health Care Enforcement: Office of Inspector General Releases 2015 Work Plan

The Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) within the federal Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) is charged with protecting the integrity of HHS programs by combating fraud, abuse and waste. On Halloween of 2014,...more

Mintz - ML Strategies

Telehealth and Health IT Policy: Considerations for Stakeholders

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In recent months, as the conversation about reforming the health care system has shifted to achieving greater delivery system efficiencies, cost containment, and patient satisfaction, the role of health care...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Health Care: As Sunshine Act Deadlines Approach Physicians and Hospitals Should Prepare for Transparency in Their Financial...

On September 30, 2014, in accordance with the Federal Sunshine Act (the Sunshine Act), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will publically disclose payments and "other transfers of value" by pharmaceutical,...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Lawsuit Against Medtronic Alleges Racketeering Over Infuse Bone Graft

When one big industry sues another we learn a lot about how business as usual is conducted. In this case Humana, a giant health insurer, has sued the medical device company Medtronic, maker of the Infuse bone graft. ...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Cloudy Skies Ahead for Providers? CMS’ Release of Medicare Billing Data Combined with Physician Payment Sunshine Act Data May...

In February 2013, we reported (on our Healthcare Law Blog) that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the final rule for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. In the interest of providing more...more

Carlton Fields

Data Collection Under The Sunshine Act

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Data collection requirements under the Physician Payment Sunshine Act commenced August 1, 2013. This provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the corresponding regulations require an entity that is...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Getting the Best Medical Care: a Newsletter from Patrick Malone - July 2013

In This Issue: - Is There a Problem? Let Us Count the Ways - A Growing Awareness - Getting Objective Information - Recent Health Care News You Should Know About - Excerpt from Navigating Through Medical...more

King & Spalding

Senate Finance Committee Hearing Discusses Transparency in Healthcare Pricing

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On June 18, 2013, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing entitled, “High Prices, Low Transparency: The Bitter Pill of Health Care Costs.” Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) gave statements on ways to...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

OIG Special Fraud Alert Labels Physician-Owned Distributorships (PODs) as “Inherently Suspect”

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General (the “OIG”) issued a Special Fraud Alert (“Alert”) on March 26, underscoring its heightened focus on fraud and abuse risks posed by physician-owned...more

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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

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