Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 194: Workforce Development for the Life Sciences Industry with David Stefanich of Rymedi
Changes in FDA, Cannabis Policies and AI Developments
Episode 185: America’s Bioeconomy with Sarah Glaven, White House Research Biologist
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 181: South Carolina’s Life Sciences Economy with Ashely Teasdel, Deputy Secretary of SC Department of Commerce
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 169: Shirley Paddock, Senior VP of Clinical Development, Syneos Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 166 — Christine Vannais, COO of Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 165: Doug Edgeton, President and CEO of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Podcast: Direct Access Laboratory Testing - Future FDA Proposed Regulations on LDTs - Diagnosing Health Care
Episode 150 - Jane Pine Wood, Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, BioReference
Jones Day Talks Health Care: The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act
In June 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced a new item in its Work Plan: “Medicare Payments for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests in 2024.” This annual review,...more
Compared with other issues, healthcare enforcement during President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming second term has received little attention. When he takes office again on January 20, should industry actors like pharmaceutical...more
In September, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an unfavorable advisory opinion to a pathology laboratory concerning a proposed services arrangement with referring...more
On September 25, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion 23-06, in which it declined to approve an anatomic pathology laboratory’s proposal to purchase...more
Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference to...more
It has been four years since Congress enacted the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 220. EKRA initially targeted patient brokering and kickback schemes within the addiction treatment and...more
OIG has updated its FAQs regarding the application of its administrative enforcement authorities to arrangements directly connected with COVID-19 with the addition of two new FAQs. On August 4, 2020, the OIG issued an FAQ...more
The first publicly disclosed prosecution under the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”) occurred last month, a little over a year after EKRA became law. As we described in a previous blog post, EKRA criminalizes...more
On June 25, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of the Inspector General ("OIG") issued a Special Fraud Alert updating the previous guidelines concerning compensation by clinical laboratories to referring...more
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services recently issued a Special Fraud Alert regarding laboratory payments to referring physicians. The Special Fraud Alert reaffirms OIG’s...more
Craig Holden co-presented "New Compliance Red Flags Workshop," a workshop hosted by G2 Intelligence. Over the past five years, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services have recovered $19.2 billion from...more
The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services recently posted an Advisory Opinion describing a proposed arrangement by a clinical laboratory. ...more