On March 30, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Alex Azar, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (the “Secretary), used his authority under Section 1135 of the Social Security Act to waive...more
4/1/2020
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This Client Alert serves as the third in a three-part series in which we describe and analyze the rules proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as part...more
10/31/2019
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On June 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published in the Federal Register a “request for information” regarding potential reforms to the federal physician self-referral law (or the “Stark Law”). ...more
On October 3, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) published a proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) to add new safe harbors to the federal health care program anti-kickback statute...more
10/21/2014
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