As the federal government continues to take action in response to events impacting the healthcare landscape, stakeholders must ensure that they are staying up-to-date with health information privacy and security developments...more
4/29/2024
/ Business Associates ,
Covered Entities ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Final Rules ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Medicare ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently announced two settlement agreements, both involving durable medical equipment (“DME”) companies, following allegations that the companies had violated the Anti-Kickback...more
10/20/2022
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Corporate Integrity Agreement ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Durable Medical Equipment ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Manufacturers ,
Medicaid ,
Medical Devices ,
Medicare ,
OIG ,
Settlement ,
TRICARE
With the enactment of the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”) in 2018, the permissibility of commission-based compensation to laboratory sales representatives based on volume, revenue, or profit has come under...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published an Interim Final Rule in the Federal Register on September 2, 2020 to supplement and strengthen the agency’s enforcement of COVID-19 reporting requirements. The...more
9/11/2020
/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
CLIA ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Interim Final Rules (IFR) ,
Medicare ,
MIPS ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Virus Testing
On Mach 27, 2020, President Trump signed the CARES Act, providing in part for $100 billion in relief funds to eligible health care providers and suppliers affected by COVID-19. The funding is intended to support...more
On Monday, April 6th the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) adopted an interim final rule to change a wide range of Medicare payment policies during the COVID-19 public health emergency so that Medicare...more
With the aim of enabling providers to focus attention and resources on fighting the COVID1-19 pandemic, CMS announced over the weekend that it intends to alleviate some of Medicare participating providers’ and suppliers’...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased the number of patients and providers seeking to implement and use telehealth visits and other digital health solutions – and rapidly, at that. The challenge of implementing...more
3/23/2020
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Emergency Response ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Licensing Rules ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
State of Emergency ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
On March 17, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) each issued policy statements which expand access to telehealth...more
3/19/2020
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Emergency Response ,
Health Care Providers ,
Joint Policy Statements ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
OIG ,
State of Emergency ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
Medicare reimbursement for remote patient monitoring has taken a number of steps forward throughout this year. New and proposed rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services both expand the billing options...more
The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) released a proposed rule to eliminate safe harbor protection under the anti-kickback statute for drug price reductions that pharmaceutical...more
2/6/2019
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Comment Period ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Manufacturers ,
MCOs ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Part D ,
OIG ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmacies ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Proposed Rules ,
Rebates ,
Safe Harbors
Many regulatory and legislative calls for modernizing the federal physician self-referral law (or “Stark Law”) in light of the move to value-based payment under Medicare have been made in recent months. Most recently, a...more
On February 9, President Trump signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (“BBA”) into law. The BBA funds the federal government through March 23 and included a bipartisan agreement to increase annual spending authority for a...more
2/22/2018
/ ACOs ,
Bipartisan Budget Act ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Health Care Providers ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Penalties ,
Physician Fee Schedule ,
Stark Law ,
Telehealth