Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 206: Supporting Patient Care with Darra Coleman of Prisma Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 196: Regulation Trends in Healthcare and Certificate of Need with Rebecca Thornhill of Maynard Nexsen
A Fond Farewell: Musings on the End of the Medicare Advantage Hospice Carve-In Demonstration
Video: Braidwood v. Becerra – Challenging the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Services Coverage Provision – Thought Leaders in Health Law
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 178: Life Sciences Industry Impact with Bob Coughlin, JLL Director and Former MassBio CEO
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 175: Healthcare Inequity with Kim Smith, Healthcare Advocate and Founder of Health Evolve Technologies
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 173: Improving rural health care with Dr. Kevin Bennett, the Director of the Research Center for Transforming Health and the
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The No Surprises Act: A Cost Saving Opportunity for Employer Plan Sponsors
La reforma del sistema de salud
Counsel That Cares - Value-Based Care as a Long-Term Investment
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Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 117: Chris Severn, Co-Founder & CEO, Turquoise Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 115: Dr. Michael Havig, CEO, HealthMe
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care & Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 107: A legislative update with SC Speaker Murrell Smith
On the Ballot 2020: Health Care Policy Outlook - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
Jones Day Talks Health Care: The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act
Value-based health care: the role of payors
Episode 09: Behold "AHCA"! – Demystifying Employment Law Implications of Proposed ACA Replacement
Polsinelli Podcast - Republicans Gain Control of the U.S. Senate - How That May Impact Health Reform
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for July 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including a final rule on provider...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for June 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including guidance regarding hospital...more
The long-awaited final reg is upon us! The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a final regulation earlier this week...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for May 2024. We discuss several notable cases and enforcement resolutions, including the US Court of Appeals for the District of...more
During this election year, McDermottPlus is actively monitoring annual regulations that federal agencies are expected to release, as well as “ad hoc” regulations that will be released at the discretion of federal agencies. ...more
The upcoming election, and the approaching end of the President’s four-year term, introduce additional dynamics into the agencies’ rulemaking process and even the guidance process. From now through the November election, the...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for March 2024. We summarize a US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision interpreting the intent standard under the federal...more
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia recently dismissed an appeal by the Pharmaceutical Coalition for Patient Access (“PCPA”) that challenged a negative opinion issued by the U.S. Department...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is tasked with providing objective oversight to protect the integrity and promote the efficiency of Medicare, Medicaid, and more than...more
In a case that may hit a raw compliance nerve, Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital in Michigan has agreed to pay $100,000 in a settlement with the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) over free services provided to certain...more
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Sept. 7 announced a proposed rule to bar discrimination based on disability.[1] “The rule, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal...more
This favorable OIG opinion relates to Requestor who provides consulting services to physician practices and the Requestor’s proposed arrangement (“Proposed Arrangement”) to offer its current physician practice customers...more
On October 30, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule establishing penalties for healthcare providers who violate the information blocking rules implemented under the 21st Century...more
For the better part of a decade, the U.S. Justice Department has led the way on calls for a strong, independent corporate compliance function – until recently, that is. Then the Department of Health and Human Services leaped...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for October 2023. We discuss several enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) and the...more
In 2020, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its Final Rule to implement the information blocking prohibitions of the 21st Century Cures Act, HHS left healthcare providers wondering what...more
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) rejected a manufacturer’s proposal to provide free hearing aids to certain patients if they receive one of the...more
On November 1, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a proposed rule titled “21st Century Cures Act: Establishment of Disincentives for Health Care Providers That Have Committed Information...more
In September, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an unfavorable advisory opinion to a pathology laboratory concerning a proposed services arrangement with referring...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for September 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act (FCA), the...more
On October 13, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion 23-07, approving a physician practice’s proposal to pay its physician-employees a portion of the...more
Late last week, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) posted Advisory Opinion No. 23-07 affirming the broad protection available for compensation to employed physicians under the...more
On September 25, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion 23-06, in which it declined to approve an anatomic pathology laboratory’s proposal to purchase...more
Last week the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion 23-06 (AO), which advised that a proposed arrangement between certain laboratories for the purchase...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for August 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act...more