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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Employees’ Misdeeds, Lack of Risk Analysis Cost NY Hospital $4.75M; OCR Issues Warning

Although the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) described its recent $4.75 million agreement with a Bronx, New York, hospital as settling a “malicious insider cybersecurity investigation,” the agency considered a total of 11...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hospital Settles CMP Case Over Free APPs; 'Bona Fide' Use Shouldn't Inspire Fear, Lawyer Says

In a case that may hit a raw compliance nerve, Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital in Michigan has agreed to pay $100,000 in a settlement with the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) over free services provided to certain...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

False Claims Act Settlements to Know from Q2 2023

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There have been several noteworthy False Claims Act (FCA) settlements in the second quarter of 2023.  Four of these settlements have come in over $20 million. This post summarizes key settlements of interest....more

McDermott Will & Emery

HIPAA Compliance 101: Lessons from a Recent OCR Settlement

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The US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced a settlement with a community hospital resolving an investigation under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

11th Annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review 2022

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We are pleased to bring you our 11th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review. Our Review provides comprehensive coverage of the most significant civil and criminal enforcement issues facing healthcare providers. Each year, we...more

ArentFox Schiff

Texas Hospital to Pay Over $3 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

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John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) agreed to pay more than $3.3 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by upcoding hundreds of claims submitted to federal healthcare programs. Texas Hospital to...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

An Active Year For Health Care Antitrust Enforcement

All eyes were on health care in 2020, as the industry faced unprecedented challenges presented by the global coronavirus pandemic. Stories and images of overburdened frontline health care workers dominated the news cycle...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Beware the Bright Lights

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The Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services has announced settlements with three different Boston-area hospitals for allegedly compromising the privacy of protected health information by inviting...more

Polsinelli

Five Things to Know About CMS's Second Round of Settlements for Hospital Appeals

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that beginning December 1, 2016, it is offering to settle certain inpatient-status claims to eligible hospitals willing to withdraw from the administrative...more

The Volkov Law Group

Tenet Healthcare Settles Fraud Case for $514 Million

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If you work in compliance in the healthcare industry, you have a tough job. The number and variety of risks that healthcare providers face is daunting. The False Claims Act is a mighty weapon in the hands of federal...more

King & Spalding

DOJ Announces Settlement with Tuomey CEO Following Yates Memo Directive to Hold Individuals Accountable

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The Department of Justice’s recent settlement with a healthcare system executive indicates a continued focus on pursuing individuals in enforcement actions. On September 27, 2016, the DOJ announced it reached a $1 million...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Huge Stark Law Hospital Settlements and Physician Culpability - The New Normal Post-Tuomey?

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After the federal government’s victory against Tuomey Hospital, we have seen an increasing number of large False Claims Act (FCA) settlements with hospitals involving Stark Law allegations. Relators are even citing, as...more

Polsinelli

Practices, Optics and Implications: A Cautionary Tale from the North Broward Hospital District Settlement

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The $69.5 million settlement by North Broward Hospital District in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to resolve False Claims Act allegations paints a cautionary tale of the importance of hospital practices and optics in connection...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Hospital Chain Pays Heavy Price for Being Too Clever

Finding that Community Hospital Systems had been “too clever by half” in negotiating a global settlement agreement for seven whistleblower suits, a federal judge ordered the chain to pay the attorneys’ fees of all the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Regulators Sue Four Michigan Hospitals for Agreeing to Restrict Marketing Activities

As most people know, agreements between competitors to fix prices or allocate or divide markets are clear violations of the antitrust laws and can result in serious penalties. In industries as diverse as foreign exchange...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update - July 2015

Lessons From the Frontlines: Strategies for Supporting Informed Consumer Decision-Making in the Health Insurance Marketplace - Editor's Note: As marketplaces prepare for the third open enrollment period, consumers are...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Recent HHS Settlement Highlights Risks of Electronically-Sharing Protected Health Information

On July 10, 2015, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its second settlement of the year for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more

Buchalter

Texas Hospital Settles Stark Statute and False Claims Act Allegations for $21.75 Million

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According to a press release from the Department of Justice, Citizens Medical Center (“CMC”), a county-owned hospital in Victoria, Texas, will pay $21,750,000 to the federal government to settle allegations that it entered...more

King & Spalding

Phoebe Putney Reaches Settlement with FTC

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On March 31, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) entered into a settlement with Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc. (Phoebe Putney), the Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County, and HCA Inc., finally resolving the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Patient Dumps Can be Costly (But Cheaper than Missing Signature under Stark)

Continuing an accelerating series of EMTALA investigations and settlements in 2014 and this year, a Newton, Kansas hospital has agreed to pay $45,000 to settle allegations by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the...more

Cozen O'Connor

Special (Limited) CMS Offer to Settle Claims on Appeal

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With little fanfare just before the Labor Day weekend, CMS announced a program in which it would enter into administrative agreements with eligible providers in exchange for the providers’ withdrawal of pending appeals...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Acute Care Hospitals Settle FCA Lawsuits for $98 Million

Community Health Systems, Inc. (CHS) and Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation, together a national owner and operator of acute care hospitals, and 119 of their hospitals, agreed to pay $98 million to...more

Dickinson Wright

HIPAA Violation Results in $4.8 Million Settlement

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While most healthcare providers know to pay close attention to the HIPAA rules when setting up their information technology systems, recent events have demonstrated that this close scrutiny should also be applied to computer...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Halifax Health Gets In More Hot Water

You probably didn’t think Florida’s Halifax Health could make its situation any worse. After all, only two months ago Halifax agreed to pay $85 million to settle just the first half of a Medicare fraud case. That still...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Kentucky Hospital Pays $41 Million To Settle Fraud Charges

Yesterday Kentucky’s largest hospital, King’s Daughters Medical Center, in Ashland, announced its agreement to pay $40.9 million to settle charges that it committed Medicare and Medicaid fraud by billing for coronary...more

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