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OIG Issues Report Suggesting Medicare Advantage Companies Perform Chart Reviews and Health Risk Assessments to Drive Higher...

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On September 20, 2021 the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) issued a report suggesting that certain Medicare Advantage (MA) companies were leveraging chart reviews and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hooper, Kearney and Macklin on Cutting Edge Topics in the False Claims Act

While the pandemic put many things on hold, it did not do the same for the False Claims Act (FCA). To find out what is happening in FCA activity we spoke with Patrick Hooper, Jordan Kearney and Alicia Macklin, partners at the...more

Oberheiden P.C.

ZPIC Audits: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know

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Zone Program Integrity Contractors (ZPICs) are federal contractors that work under the direction of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to uncover fraudulent billings under Medicare. ZPICs have broad...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Payment Dispute Triggered First 2020 OCR Settlement

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 3 (March 2020) - A gastroenterologist in Utah who felt he was being held captive by an electronic health record (EHR) vendor found his 2013 complaint to the HHS Office for Civil Rights...more

K&L Gates LLP

K&L Gates Triage: The Impact of Allina — Potential Limitation on CMS’s Ability to Recoup Overpayments

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In this week’s episode, Adam Cooper discusses the Supreme Court’s decision in Azar v. Allina Health Services, as well as a related memorandum issued in late 2019 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) that...more

McDermott Will & Emery

New Guidance on Medicare Payment Rule Enforcement

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A few days before Thanksgiving, the news media published an internal memo by the Office of General Counsel (OGC) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (Department) to officials at the Centers for Medicare and...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

New York Medical Society Warns Providers to Avoid Percentage-Based Billing

A series of recoupment letters from the New York State Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) to healthcare providers who have management or billing company arrangements based on a percentage of collections has prompted the...more

Morgan Lewis

FDA Uses Summer to Issue Numerous Device Guidance Documents

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The Agency shows no signs of slowing regulatory activity. Although the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s or the Agency’s) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has been very active throughout 2016, it...more

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