On December 4, 2017, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an Advisory Opinion No. 17-07 regarding a proposed pilot program involving a health technology collaboration funded by a pharmaceutical manufacturer and...more
Last month, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced that it would start updating its Work Plan website on a monthly basis instead of only once or twice per year. Consistent with this new initiative, the OIG...more
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently announced that, effective June 15, 2017, the agency will update its Work Plan website monthly instead of only once or twice per year. In developing its Work Plan, OIG...more
After narrowly passing the Budget Committee, the Republican-sponsored health reform repeal and replace bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), is scheduled for a floor vote for Thursday, March 23, 2017, seven years to the...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recently ruled in favor of HHS, overturning a $17 million district court decision, in a dispute dating back as far as the 1993 fiscal year over whether hospitals may include,...more
The Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued guidance regarding the importance of covered entities and cloud service vendors maintaining business associate agreements (BAAs) where electronic...more