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 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 15 days from receipt of its June 21 warning letter to elaborate on corrective actions to address violations of federal requirements...more
Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance education on a wide variety of current and emerging topics...more
Board Oversight of the Compliance Program - The GCPG cross-references the US Sentencing Guidelines board responsibility requirements of the organization’s compliance program, and provides that the board shall “be...more
Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, no. 10 (October, 2023) The HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) will have two new members when it meets this month. In an email sent to its...more
On May 23, the White House revealed three new steps advancing the research, development and deployment of AI technology nationwide. The Biden Administration has updated the National Artificial Intelligence R&D Plan for...more
Why is bias in AI an issue? One reason: A natural human fear of trusting AI’s vaunted omniscience, whether for individuals or groups. AI is a blessing for business and big data analysis of every kind, the support of...more
On March 18, 2022, the Advanced Medical Technology Association (“AdvaMed”) announced revisions to its Code of Ethics on Interactions with Health Care Professionals (“Code”). The revised Code will take effect June 1, 2022. ...more
On April 8, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) issued guidance discussing how HHS human subjects protection regulations....more
The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) released guidance earlier this week in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, encouraging researchers to prioritize public health and safety. The guidance clarifies how the...more
This two-day Regional Compliance and Ethics Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 1 (January 2020) - ? A man from Richland, Washington, is facing life in prison after being convicted of 47 counts of fraud for staging clinical trials that purportedly enrolled dozens of...more
The Office of Inspector General of Health and Human Services expects board members, board audit/compliance committee members, and senior level leaders of organizations to be experienced in compliance oversight. The Board &...more
In its first update in a decade and effective January 1, 2020, the revised Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) Code of Ethics in Interactions with Health Care Professionals (Code) in the United States contains...more
At a time when prescription drug prices keep skyrocketing and Americans pay hundreds of billions of dollars for medications that account for as much as 15 percent of all U.S. health care spending, federal law enforcers...more
Deadlines are looming to come into compliance with sweeping changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for long-term care facilities (LTC) participating in Medicare and Medicaid. The CMS final...more
According to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations—and similar provisions found in other guidelines worldwide—an organization’s governing body is responsible to “exercise reasonable oversight with respect to the...more
Earlier this month, privacy and security professionals from around the globe gathered for “Privacy. Security. Risk. 2015”—the second joint conference between the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the...more
On July 16, 2015, the Federal Register published Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule to reform the requirements for Long Term Care Facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid. CMS will be...more
New guidance for boards of directors on what it means to have “reasonable oversight” for the implementation and effectiveness of corporate compliance programs could signal the beginning of a global trend towards more—and more...more
The Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010 – can anyone remember back that far? The ACA required Medicare and Medicaid providers to have an ethics and compliance program....more
This week, the Privacy and Security Workgroup within the Health IT Policy Committee was tasked by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to discuss certain patient data protections. Specifically, they were...more