Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 8
In one of the final advisory opinions of 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) took a broad view that a hospital's provisions of care by nurse practitioners to patients of...more
The Office of the Inspector General (the “OIG”) issued Advisory Opinion No. 22-20 on December 14, 2022, in which it determined from facts and circumstances presented that an acute care hospital providing physicians with the...more
On December 19, 2022, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (OIG) issued an advisory opinion blessing the use of hospital-employed nurse practitioners (NPs) to perform certain...more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently posted Advisory Opinion 22-20, approving an acute care hospital’s arrangement under which its employed nurse practitioners...more
On December 19, 2022, OIG posted Advisory Opinion 22-20, responding to a request submitted by an acute care hospital (the Hospital) regarding the utilization of its employed nurse practitioners (NPs) to perform services that...more
The primary educational and networking event for healthcare compliance professionals - As our flagship healthcare compliance conference, HCCA’s Compliance Institute (CI) has been providing educational resources and...more
The Compliance Institute is celebrating 25 years! Join us for the Compliance Institute's 25th anniversary, April 19-22, 2021. This year, HCCA is excited to celebrate over two decades of compliance excellence with our...more
On July 10, 2020, in United States v. Ruan, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the convictions of two Alabama doctors for running an opiate “pill mill.” Among many other things, the government charged that the doctors used...more