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A Fond Farewell: Musings on the End of the Medicare Advantage Hospice Carve-In Demonstration
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Counsel That Cares - The Private Payer's Perspective on Value-Based Care
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Show Me the Money: New Study Confirms Hospice Saves Money for Medicare
An Unwanted Spotlight: DOJ Announces Hospice Fraud Is Top Priority
The Chartwell Chronicles: Medicare & Medicaid
Navigating EMTALA Rules
Heed Caution: Takeaways From the OIG's Advance Care Planning Report
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Patient Steering and Charting
Telehealth Risk Report: What the Government Found
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News Briefs - HHS Drops Appeal of Court's Ruling in Hospital Web Tracking Case - The Department of Health and Human Services is dropping its appeal of a June U.S. District Court ruling that vacated the government's...more
Physician Fee Schedule Faces Cuts in CY25 - Overall Medicare payments to physicians and clinicians would be cut by a proposal to decrease average base payment rates by 2.93% from calendar year 2024 under a proposed rule...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
KCP supports House bill to restore original intent of Medicare Secondary Payer Act - Kidney Care Partners (KCP) commends the 36 co-sponsors of the bill before the House, who come from both sides of the aisle and represent...more
With the end of the first quarter of 2024, we highlight five developments, changes, or challenges that health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, physician practices, health insurers, and other health care providers,...more
Telemedicine companies are supposed to facilitate medically necessary services to beneficiaries over the telephone via licensed medical professionals. In reality, however, many of these “telemedicine companies” are...more
ACI’s Advanced Forum on Managed Care Disputes and Litigation offers an unparalleled learning experience, specifically designed for the MCO legal community. Attend and develop winning legal strategies and business best...more
The following is a summary of selected federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported...more
Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published favorable Advisory Opinion No. 23-15 on January 3, which concluded that a consultant’s proposal to provide gift cards to existing...more
In its December 18, 2023, Enforcement listserv notice, HHS’s Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) published its Work Plan Updates for December. Although six updates were published, this article will only highlight the...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)—recently published a...more
From 1998-2008, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published compliance program guidelines for various industries in the Federal Register....more
News Briefs - Lawmakers Reintroduce Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act - Federal lawmakers are trying again to push through immigration reform that would allow officials to recapture unused visas and reprocess them for...more
The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented a final rule, effective November 13, 2023, designed to enhance the oversight of hospice providers throughout the United States and increase regulatory...more
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on Oct. 13, 2023, posted Advisory Opinion No. 23-07 detailing a favorable response to a proposal by a Requestor to pay bonuses to its...more
News Briefs - Google Cloud Unveils AI to Help Doctors with Search Capabilities - Google Cloud announced new artificial intelligence-powered search capabilities that it said will help healthcare workers quickly pull accurate...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for May 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act (FCA)...more
The recently passed Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) of 2023 includes a new Stark Law exception and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) safe harbor, allowing hospitals and other health care entities to offer their physicians...more
At the end of 2022, Congress enacted the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (“CAA”), for which there has been much fanfare. As it relates to health care, this legislation included provisions addressing issues such...more
General and specialty compliance education from the comfort of your home or office - HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide practitioners with virtual compliance learning that covers a wide variety of...more
The Federal False Claims Act (“FCA”) imposes civil liability for presenting a false claim to the government for payment. The Federal Anti-Kickback Statue (“AKS”) prohibits medical providers from making referrals in return for...more
After a rare False Claims Act (FCA) trial—especially one premised on violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS)—a federal jury in Minnesota returned a $43 million verdict against Precision Lens, a distributor of medical...more
On Dec. 23, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the fiscal year (FY) 2023 omnibus appropriations bill. The legislation was passed by the Senate (68-29) on Dec. 22 and the House (225-201-1) on Dec. 23. The bill provides...more