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Increasing Hospital Reimbursement by Paying to the Upper Payment Limit

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This post is the first in a series dedicated to Colorado’s Medicaid finance and payment systems, challenges faced by those programs, and opportunities for expansion. The Colorado Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability...more

The Volkov Law Group

Telehealth: A New Opportunity for Fraudsters

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Whenever new technologies emerge or new pots of government funds for assistance are available, you can count on one thing (as the sun rises and sets) – fraudsters will figure out a way to steal money from innocent persons and...more

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Defense Contractors Will Face Higher Risks as Spending Increases

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Ongoing geopolitical developments such as Russia’s war in Ukraine and tensions between China and Taiwan have continued to fuel higher US military spending. The demand for military weapons is the strongest it has been in...more

King & Spalding

OIG Report Finds Texas May Have Claimed More Than $30 Million in Federal Funds for Medicaid Uncompensated Care Payments That Did...

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On September 29, 2022, OIG published a report of its findings summarizing its investigation into whether Texas properly claimed uncompensated care (UC) payments (the Report). The Report by OIG found that Texas incorrectly...more

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Beltway Buzz - September 2022 #4

Lawmakers Avoid Shutdown, Extend Government Funding Deadline. The U.S. Congress narrowly averted a federal government shutdown this week, as it approved a stopgap continuing resolution to keep the government funded and...more

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Holland & Knight Health Dose: September 13, 2022

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Holland & Knight Health Dose 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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 19, Number 6. In This Month's E-News: June 2022

Report on Research Compliance 19 no. 6 (June, 2022) - Auditors for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Inspector General (OIG) questioned $35,316 of costs claimed by the University of Idaho (UI) among $42.7...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 19, Number 1. In This Month's E-News: January 2022

Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 1 (January, 2022) - Although a continuing resolution is now in place that funds the federal government through Feb. 18, committees are still working on bills that could contain...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

NSF Award Mismanagement, Publication Ban Among Costly Actions by Researchers

Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 1 (January, 2022) - During the second half of fiscal year 2021, which ended Sept. 30, the National Science Foundation (NSF) collected more than $2.5 million from six universities and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

After Investigation Finds ‘Mismanagement’ UT Austin Suspends PI, Repays NSF $1.3M

Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 10 (October, 2021) - A University of Texas at Austin principal investigator (PI) who, in the words of the National Science Foundation Office of Inspector General (OIG), “generally...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 18, Number 9. In This Month’s E-News: September 2021

Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 9 (September, 2021) - A former Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researcher who was the principal investigator on a 2014 NIH award of $939,495.27 and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 18, Number 8. In This Month’s E-News: August 2021

Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 8 (August, 2021) - “As a steward of the nation’s biomedical research enterprise, NIH is dedicated to ensuring that when data and biospecimens are shared, that it is done ethically and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 18, Number 5. In This Month’s E-News: May 2021

Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 5 (May 2021) - Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Florida, has relaunched the bipartisan Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus with new co-chair Rep. David McKinley, R-West Virginia, who replaced...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

NSF OIG Deploys 'Redesigned' Audit Approach: Assess the 'Environment,' Then Target Inquiries

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 3 (February 20, 2020) - Institutions with federal research dollars, particularly from the National Science Foundation (NSF), know they may be subject to an audit by the funding...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update - February 2020

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Governor Newsom proposes new plan for San Joaquin River Delta - Governor Gavin Newsom revealed a novel approach Tuesday to managing the San Joaquin River Delta that would keep more water in the fragile delta while restoring...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

After $5.5M FCA Settlement, Institutions Face Bigger Risks for Mishandling Foreign Support

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 2 (January 23, 2020) - Acting with “deliberate ignorance” and “reckless disregard” are not words that any institution wants to hear associated with its name. But these are at the heart...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

HHS Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion Permitting Community Health Center to Purchase Real Estate From an Excluded Individual

On September 6, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued OIG Advisory Opinion No. 19-05 (Advisory Opinion) permitting a community health center (Requestor) to...more

Baker Donelson

OIG's List of Excluded Individuals/Entities – What Employers Need to Know

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OIG maintains a list of all currently excluded individuals and entities called the "List of Excluded Individuals/Entities," or LEIE. Covered entities that hire – or continue to employ or work with – an individual or entity on...more

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OIG December 2017 Work Plan Update

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The OIG added six items to its Work Plan with the December 2017 update, as listed in the chart below. Interestingly, three of the new items relate to Medicaid, and two relate to the opioid abuse problem. Medicare Advantage...more

Hogan Lovells

Pursue Innovation or Maintain Eligibility? A Unique Faculty Model Could Cost an Institution $713 Million and its Future...

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Instructor. Regular. Substantive. Those three words, as defined by the U.S. Department of Education (“ED”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”), resulted in OIG’s recent recommendation that Western Governors University (“WGU”)...more

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OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion for Cost-Sharing Waiver and Stipend Arrangements in a Government-Funded Clinical Research...

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The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a favorable advisory opinion (Advisory Opinion) to a university health system (Requestor) regarding two arrangements: (1) a proposal to waive cost-sharing obligations of...more

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Insights Conversations: How Government Health Care Investigations May Be Shifting

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has long had the advantage when investigating False Claims Act (FCA) cases against health care companies. However, recent changes in the courts, including a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court...more

Jackson Walker

Employing Excluded Individuals a Continuing Risk to Providers

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Since June 1st, two different skilled nursing facilities in Texas have settled cases with the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) involving the employment of individuals...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

OIG Defends Its Hospital Compliance Reviews in Response to AHA Criticism

The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services(“OIG”) responded to concerns expressed by the American Hospital Association (“AHA”) regarding the OIG’s hospital compliance reviews,...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Five Takeaways from the OIG’s Special Advisory Bulletin on Exclusion

This week the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued an updated Special Advisory Bulletin on the Effect of Exclusion from Participation in Federal Health Care Programs, an...more

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