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Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 19
Episode 303 --- Deep Dive into the HHS-OIG Compliance Program Guidance
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Telehealth Risk Report: What the Government Found
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HIPAA Tips With Williams Mullen - Telehealth After the Pandemic
Beyond Hospice: The OIG Renews Its Scrutiny of Home Health Agencies
In a prior post, we discussed the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) lawsuit against U.S. Anesthesia Partners (“USAP”) and the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (“Welsh Carson”). Most recently, the U.S....more
A recent case before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit addressed the issue of which persons qualify as “patients” of a 340B program participating entity (covered entity). Court-ordered filings in ongoing...more
Over the last year, covered entities participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program) have anxiously monitored a flurry of litigation that could determine the scope of the 340B Program. The litigation and related...more
In July 2020, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order (the EO) directing the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take certain actions and finalize rulemakings designed to “support the...more
An Arizona District Court judge held last week that the court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction over a home health agency’s (HHA) procedural due process claim because the HHA had failed to present its claim to HHS first and...more
On January 21, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted in part and denied in part a motion challenging a new HHS policy for allocating livers to transplant patients in the United States. The...more
Bingham v. HCA, Inc., a recent Eleventh Circuit case, highlights the centrality of fair market value to Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) analyses. This decision is significant for several reasons and we expect to see Bingham cited...more
“Plaintiffs claim that marijuana has extended their lives, cured seizures and made pain manageable. If true, these are no small things.” So wrote Judge Calabresi on behalf of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has demonstrated that it will not hesitate to use one of its most crippling administrative enforcement tools—the revocation of Medicare billing privileges—against one of...more
The Indiana Health Department sent a team to the Nightingale home health care and hospice group, in response to complaints. When CMS received the team’s report, it notified Nightingale that its Medicare certification was...more
If that sounds familiar, your child may have a future as a lawyer for Health & Human Services. Because that’s one of the primary arguments asserted by HHS last Friday in its motion to dismiss the lawsuit by the American...more
In Bagnall v. Sebelius, No. 3:11-CV-01703 (D. Conn.), a federal district court in Connecticut recently granted a motion to dismiss the complaint of fourteen Medicare beneficiaries seeking to invalidate an HHS policy allowing...more