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OIG Approves the Use of Gift Cards to Reward Customers' Marketing Efforts

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On January 3, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted Advisory Opinion 23-15, approving a physician practice consultant’s proposal to offer gift cards to its customers when...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In This Month’s E-News: January 2024

The Department of Commerce and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are requesting comments on a “draft guidance framework designed to help federal agencies evaluate when it may be appropriate to exercise...more

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief

OIG Issues Final Information Blocking Enforcement Rule and Highlights the Potential for Referrals to the FTC and FCA Liability

On June 27, 2023, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released its final rule (“Final Rule”) implementing penalties for information blocking....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In This Month’s E-News: May 2023

Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, Number 5. April 27, 2023 - - NIH should conduct “site visits to foreign facilities that perform NIH-funded animal research” or require third-party verification to offer “reasonable...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

[Webinar] Lunch and Learn Series: A Survey of OIG’s 2022 Advisory Opinions: What They Could Mean for Your Organization - January...

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Please join us for the first Lunch and Learn of 2023, as Geoffrey Kaiser and Jeffrey Ehrhardt present on the OIG. The program will: 1. Discuss select Advisory Opinions from last year on a variety of topics,...more

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Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | September 2022 Recap

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This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity between August 21 and September 20, 2022, including a guilty plea from a telemedicine physician who wrote prescriptions for...more

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New Safe Harbors Offer Opportunities for Innovative Arrangements, Including Digital Health

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Recent updates to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute give providers additional flexibility to enter into innovative arrangements, but before doing so, providers must ensure they understand the safe harbor requirements...more

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Stark and AKS Final Rules Will Facilitate Donations of EHR and Cybersecurity Technology and Services

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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

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Telemedicine Comes of Age: OIG is Prosecuting Telehealth Fraud

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You can now tell that telemedicine is a mature industry, because it has achieved enough critical mass that the fraud has started and the OIG is beginning to prosecute. There is a lag time between when the cash flow and profit...more

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Ten Things to Know About the CMS Long-Term Care Requirements Final Rule

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Deadlines are looming to come into compliance with sweeping changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for long-term care facilities (LTC) participating in Medicare and Medicaid. The CMS final...more

Mintz - Immigration Viewpoints

At the edge of a new frontier: USCIS begins transition to Electronic Immigration System

In July 2015, the White House announced a series of technology initiatives aimed at modernizing the application process for certain immigration benefits. As part of this effort, the United States Citizenship and Immigration...more

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Challenges Physicians Can Expect in 2015

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Reimbursement for medical services continues to decline. Continuing uncertainty about the Affordable Care Act persists. Government regulations create burdensome paperwork, busywork, and compliance headaches. Technology costs...more

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Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Legal Update: Proposed North Carolina drone legislation addresses economic benefits and civil...

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Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)—also commonly referred to as drones and the systems used to operate them—are ubiquitous in the American consciousness today, even though for most of us our experiences with UAS may be limited to...more

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