On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) issued a Notice (NOT-OD-25-068) entitled “Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates” (the “Notice”), though which NIH announced...more
It has been four years since Congress enacted the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 220. EKRA initially targeted patient brokering and kickback schemes within the addiction treatment and...more
In September 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) announced its annual healthcare-related “takedown.” The takedown,...more
In an effort to ensure that health care providers have the regulatory flexibility they need to adequately respond to COVID-19 concerns during the current public health emergency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more
On March 17, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a Policy Statement and a companion Telehealth Factsheet[2] notifying health care providers that they will...more
This past June, a federal district court in the District of Columbia made headlines when it declined to dismiss an action brought by a qui tam plaintiff (“Relator”) against defendant Boston Heart Diagnostics (“Boston Heart”),...more