Navigating the Labyrinth of Private Equity Investments in Health Care – Diagnosing Health Care
HHS Office for Civil Rights Director Melanie Fontes Rainer on Progress and News at OCR
ERISA Blog | Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rules A Primer for Self-Insured Group Health Plans
Hospice Insights Podcast - A Refresh: What’s New in the New OIG General Compliance Program Guidance
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Special Edition | Episode 36 - Rolling Change: The DEA Turns Over a New Leaf on Marijuana Scheduling
Understanding the HHS OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance
OMG. . .The OIG is at it Again
The FTC's Health Privacy Enforcement Actions
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 19
Episode 303 --- Deep Dive into the HHS-OIG Compliance Program Guidance
Counsel That Cares - The Private Payer's Perspective on Value-Based Care
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 17
Podcast - Data Privacy and Tracking Technology Compliance
Podcast - A Conversation on Cannabis: Are Challenges or Changes Coming?
Heed Caution: Takeaways From the OIG's Advance Care Planning Report
2023 Human Resources Outlook Podcast Series: EMEA
Telehealth Risk Report: What the Government Found
UPIC Report Card: The OIG’s Evaluation of the UPICs Provides Insight Into the Future of Hospice Audits
HIPAA Tips With Williams Mullen - Telehealth After the Pandemic
Beyond Hospice: The OIG Renews Its Scrutiny of Home Health Agencies
The Department of Justice announced one if its most aggressive and wide-ranging enforcement actions to date, a coordinated two-week operation spanning 32 federal districts. The orchestrated effort involved the FBI, HHS-OIG,...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for February 2024. We discuss various regulatory developments, including guidance on the use of AI in coverage decisions and texting...more
Federal and state agencies continue to remain active this year, particularly with regard to laws that impact healthcare technology. As part of our ongoing efforts to track health technology-related legislation and...more
On June 3, President Biden signed the debt limit legislation into law, averting default and allowing Congress to return to regularly scheduled business. However, that return was short-lived in the House when a small group of...more
Medicare telehealth post-Public Health Emergency (PHE): With the COVID-19 PHE concluding on May 11, 2023, many of the telehealth flexibilities the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented during the PHE will...more
On June 6, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), released its spring 2022 semiannual report to Congress. The semiannual report covers the period of October 1, 2021 to...more
Takeaways: ..Telehealth greatly expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic, in large part due to regulatory waivers. Those regulatory waivers aren’t permanent, but lawmakers are evaluating ways to permanently expand some...more
This week in Washington: Senate agrees on infrastructure compromise, budget resolution with reconciliation instructions to be voted on....more
On July 19, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule). In...more
This week in Washington: Senate in recess, conversations continue on infrastructure and administration’s health initiatives. ...more
On May 28, 2021, OIG released its Semiannual Report to Congress (the Report). The Report describes OIG’s work during the 6-month semiannual reporting period of October 1, 2020, through March 31, 2021 (the Semiannual Reporting...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has created many new enforcement priorities for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). From selling ineffective personal protective equipment (PPE) to companies fraudulently seeking loan forgiveness under...more
Individual Prosecutions Down But Corporate Resolutions Steady for DOJ’s Fraud Section in 2020, with More in the Pipeline - The Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Fraud Section recently released a year-in-review report that...more
HHS Announces Final Rules Amending Stark Law Regulations and Anti-Kickback Statute - On November 20, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published...more
On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, the Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) proposed 2021 aggregate production quotas (APQs) for controlled substances in schedules I and II of the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and an Assessment of...more
This week in Washington: Senate stays in session this week as negotiations on the COVID-19 package continue, but is not expecting votes; House remains in district work period....more
This week in Washington: Senate to hold hearing on home healthcare in rural America, House to hold hearing on protecting women's access to reproductive healthcare....more
In this week's episode, Lindsey Rogers-Seitz forecasts a number of critical issues spanning the health care industry that are likely to be points of focus in the coming year. Among these issues, Ms. Rogers-Seitz discusses the...more
This week in Washington: Senate to markup the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act; House to hold hearings on improving maternal health and the Administration's apparent...more
In this second installment of the Healthcare Enforcement Quarterly Roundup for 2019, we cover several topics that have persisted over the past few years and identify new issues that will shape the scope of enforcement efforts...more
Congress - House - House Passes Short-Term Funding Extension for Medicaid Pilot Program - On July 30, the House passed a bill to keep a $1 billion Medicaid pilot providing mental health and addiction services running...more
This week in Washington: Senate to hold hearing on the enforcement of antitrust laws, while the House plans to cover a number of health care bills that reauthorize a variety of health programs for Americans. The House may...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Healthcare Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG), recently published its Spring 2019 Semiannual Report to Congress. The report, released June 3, 2019, covers the period October 1, 2018...more
This week in Washington: The Senate continues to hold hearings on the cost of health care, the House will hold hearings on the federal approach to opioid treatment and strengthening health care in the U.S. territories. ...more