The End of COVID Waivers and Exceptions: What Now?
I Wish I Knew What I Know Now: Conversations with AGG on FDA Issues - Fee Waivers for Small Businesses: Who Qualifies for the Small Business User Fee Waiver for Drugs and Biologics and How to Apply
NGE On Demand: COVID-19 and IP Waiver for Patent Protection with Kevin O'Connor and Olivia Luk Bedi
Prohibitions on Use of Chinese Telecommunications Equipment and Services, Complying with the NDAA
COVID-19: Where are we now?
Compliance Perspectives: Changes to the Physician Self-Referral and Anti-Kickback Rules
Value-based health care: fraud & abuse laws
What patients misunderstand about their right of informed consent
Bill on Bankruptcy: ResCap Report, a Bargain at $83 Million
As healthcare moves increasingly from fee-for-service model to one focused on outcomes and value-based payments, the traditional fraud and abuse laws, such as the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law, pose obstacles to...more
Amidst the cavalcade of regulatory and policy changes from federal and state governments intended to help health care providers confront the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 21, 2020 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...more
On April 21, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued additional guidance explaining the scope and application of the Stark Law blanket waivers to certain financial relationships. CMS issued the Stark...more
On April 3, 2020 the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Policy Statement to notify health care providers and other parties subject to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) that the OIG will not impose administrative...more
On March 30, 2020, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services ("Secretary") announced a blanket waiver ("Waiver") of sanctions for violations of Section 1877 of the Social Security Act, also known as the...more
On March 30, 2020, pursuant to Section 1135 of the Social Security Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued “blanket waivers” concerning several Stark Law requirements in response to the COVID-19...more
In what will be welcome news to the provider community, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a policy statement on April 3, 2020, announcing that it will not impose administrative sanctions relating to the commission...more
On March 30th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued blanket waivers (Blanket Waivers) of sanctions under the federal physician self-referral law (Stark Law) to relax regulatory requirements related to...more
WHO: The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services - (HHS) WHAT: Issued nationwide “blanket waivers” of the federal Stark Law (Section 1877 of the Social Security Act) pursuant to his authority Section 1135...more
On March 30, 2020, in response to the public health emergency resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued blanket waivers from section 1877 of the Social Security Act (the...more
To address the ongoing national emergency from the COVID-19 pandemic, on March 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued blanket waivers of the federal Physician Self-Referral Law, otherwise known as the...more
On March 30, 2020, following President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) issued blanket waivers of enforcement of...more
On Monday, March 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an array of temporary regulatory waivers and new rules to equip the American health care system with maximum flexibility to respond to the...more
Are changes to the landscape of physician hospital ownership ahead? The Affordable Care Act amended the federal Stark Law to eliminate the “whole hospital exception” that permitted self-referrals provided the referring...more