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2/11/2022
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Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance. This year’s seminar will take place virtually on March 15, March 17, March 22, and...more
2/10/2022
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2/9/2022
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On December 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the final "Sprint Regulations," reinterpreting key aspects of the federal physician self-referral or "Stark" law. Most of the Sprint...more
There are three things that cannot be stopped: time, gravity, and the increasing complexity of the Stark Law. To be fair, complexity has not been the goal of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Rather, Stark's...more
On December 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the calendar year 2021 Final Rule implementing changes to the Medicare hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory...more
With the benefit of more than three decades of rulemaking and hundreds of submissions under the Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol, CMS has seized the opportunity in the final Sprint Regulations to adopt a number of...more
The Sprint Regulations’ value-based exceptions and related amendments have attracted much well-deserved attention. However, value-based matters aside, the Sprint Regulations portend significant positive changes to the Stark...more
The federal physician self-referral ban or Stark law has been a part of the legal landscape for almost 25 years. The breadth of the law’s prohibitions, its strict liability formulation and draconian remedies have made it the...more
7/28/2015
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False Claims Act (FCA) ,
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Physician Fee Schedule ,
Physicians ,
Qui Tam ,
Relators ,
Stark Law ,
Tuomey
On June 9, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Fraud Alert focused on physician relationships. The Alert cautions physicians who enter into compensation arrangements...more
On April 16, President Obama signed into law the “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015,” (“MACRA”) which repealed the Sustainable Growth Rate (“SGR”) payment formula used to limit annual updates to Medicare...more
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General ("OIG") just released a proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) that provides long awaited guidance on patient transportation services, relaxes the...more
10/6/2014
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Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Cost-Sharing ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Gainsharing ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Part D ,
OIG ,
Physician Payments ,
Physicians ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Retailers ,
Transportation Expenses