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Looking Back at 2024: Key Health Care Regulatory Legal Developments in Fraud and Abuse, Compliance, and Enforcement

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The health care regulatory space realized significant regulatory and enforcement developments in 2024 that are influencing how providers and industry stakeholders approach various compliance measures and enforcement...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

EnforceMintz — Medicare Advantage and Part D Programs to Remain in the Enforcement Spotlight in 2025

As government scrutiny and enforcement targeting the Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C) program continued in 2024, the industry’s response to agency actions escalated. Last year also resulted in the first sizable Part D...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

EnforceMintz — Significant 2022 Regulatory and Policy Developments

From an agency guidance and regulatory developments perspective, 2022 was fairly quiet until the latter part of the year. Consistent with past practice, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

CMS Proposed Rule for Refunding Overpayments Would Align With False Claims Act “Knowledge” Standard

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a rule late last year to harmonize the standard it would apply for providers to identify and refund overpayments with the “knowledge” standard under the False Claims...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - January 27th, Lake Buena Vista, FL

Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance education, including updates on the latest news in regulatory...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Will CMS’s Proposed Rule on “Identified Overpayments” Increase Reverse FCA Cases?

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On December 27, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule which, in part, seeks to amend the existing regulations for Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D regarding the standard for when an...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 31, Number 43. News Briefs: December 2022

HealthOne Critical Care Transport Service Inc., doing business as MedicOne Medical Response of Marion, Illinois, has agreed to pay $302,124 to settle allegations it improperly billed Medicare for scheduled, non-emergency...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hospital Settles FCA Case Filed by CO Over Modifiers; Make Sure People ‘Feel Heard’

Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 32 (September 13, 2021) - John Peter Smith (JPS) Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle false claims allegations in a case with a hot risk area, a...more

Stoel Rives - Health Law Insider®

AKS and Medicare Advantage Plans: Don’t Kickback and Relax!

Health care attorneys have long questioned whether there are significant Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) risks associated with financial transactions between Medicare Advantage plans and their participating providers. An ongoing...more

King & Spalding

OIG Hospital Compliance Program Audit Claims $22 Million in Extrapolated Overpayments

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A recent report issued by OIG finding an Indiana community hospital owed over $22 million in extrapolated overpayments carries some important lessons for hospitals audited under OIG’s hospital compliance program. As described...more

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Mintz Levin Health Care Qui Tam Update: Recently Unsealed Whistleblower Cases: October 2015

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Trends & Analysis: ..We have identified 15 health care–related qui tam cases that were unsealed since our last Qui Tam Update. Of those, 12 were filed from 2012 to the present. All but two cases had been pending more...more

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