The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with worsening mental health across the country, and California is no exception. Not surprisingly, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law multiple pieces of mental health treatment related...more
The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) recently issued yet another favorable Advisory Opinion on the use of gift cards to motivate patients to receive medically necessary or...more
4/6/2023
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Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Beneficiary Inducement ,
Cancer ,
Clinical Laboratory Testing ,
CMP Law ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Gift-Cards ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Incentives ,
Life Sciences ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
OIG ,
Preventive Health Care
On March 15, 2023, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll announced that the state’s COVID-19 public health emergency would end on May 11, 2023, in conjunction with the federal government’s...more
The United States continues to face an unprecedented health care staffing shortage at the end of 2022. As a result, we have seen a recent increase in federal and state legislative activity focusing on addressing these...more
11/23/2022
/ American Hospital Association ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Loan Forgiveness ,
Medicare Part B ,
Mental Health ,
Nurses ,
Price Gouging ,
Staffing Agencies ,
Work Visas