Paycheck Protection Program Loans and Medicare Advance Payments -
On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act was enacted in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. The Cares Act provides...more
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As health care providers across the country take steps to initiate or increase use of telehealth to provide patient care while complying with “social distancing” or “shelter in place” directives, federal and state...more
On March 26, 2020, Gov. Bill Lee issued Executive Order No. 20 amending previous Executive Order No. 15, which significantly modified various licensing and other entry barriers to providing care amidst the COVID-19 crisis....more
On March 25, Gov. Bill Lee issued the following executive order restricting the provision of all (i) non-emergency dental and oral procedures (like hygiene visits and cosmetic procedures)...
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As you may know by now, the newly enacted Families First Coronavirus Response Act provides that employers may exclude health care providers and emergency responders from taking newly provided paid sick leave or expanded FMLA...more
Last evening, Gov. Bill Lee issued Executive Order No. 15 which, among other critical actions, sets forth a number of significant health care-related provisions summarized below for the benefit of our health care...more
As we begin to grapple with the unprecedented challenges arising out of the COVID-19 outbreak, a question that many employers are being faced with is this – what information can we disclose, and to whom can we disclose it,...more
Feedback Sought Regarding the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Civil Monetary Penalties Law -
The Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") Office of Inspector General ("OIG") issued a request for information ("RFI")...more
CMS is seeking input on ways to reduce the regulatory burdens of the physician self-referral law (commonly known as the Stark Law), particularly as it relates to the ongoing effort to transition from a fee-for-service to a...more
7/16/2018
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A new OIG opinion clarifies that providers are free to determine who will pay the transcription fees when separate parties perform the professional and technical components of a radiology exam.
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$48.5 million settlement with Health Diagnostics Laboratory, Inc. and Singulex, Inc. -
On April 9, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") announced a $48.5 million settlement with two cardiovascular diagnostic...more
On June 25, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of the Inspector General ("OIG") issued a Special Fraud Alert updating the previous guidelines concerning compensation by clinical laboratories to referring...more
On April 23, 2014, the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office issued Opinion No. 14-49 confirming that spinal injections may be performed in unlicensed settings only if the performing physician meets one of the statutory...more