On July 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule outlining financial penalties, referred to as “disincentives” throughout the rule, for healthcare providers that engage in conduct...more
In June of 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously held in American Hospital Association v. Becerra that the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Centers for Medicare and...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) has announced that several notifications of enforcement discretion issued during the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”) will expire...more
4/25/2023
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