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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
On November 20, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Office of Inspector General released final rules amending the regulations to the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute and Beneficiary Inducement...more
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
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
On November 20, 2020, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released final rules amending the regulations to the physician self-referral law (Stark Law) (Stark Rule) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and...more
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
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
As another part of the Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care, OIG proposed revisions to the existing EHR Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor and added a cybersecurity component. The initial EHR Safe Harbor was developed in response...more
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
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
Chinese Hackers Infiltrate Health System Network Affecting 4.5 Million Individuals – Community Health Systems, Inc. (“CHS”) reported this week that the information of approximately 4.5 million individuals has been affected by...more
Ordinarily, the donation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology, services or training to a provider would raise fraud and abuse concerns and potentially implicate the Stark law and Anti-kickback Statute. In order to...more
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
On April 10, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (‘‘CMS'') and the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (‘‘OIG'') published twin proposed rules that amend and extend...more
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
On April 10, 2013, CMS and the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) each published proposed rules to extend the sunset dates for the Stark exception and anti-kickback statute safe harbor permitting donations of EHR software...more