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Ropes & Gray LLP

[Podcast] Patient Assistance Programs: Enforcement Trends and Regulatory Challenges

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On this Ropes & Gray podcast, health care partner Michael Lampert and counsel Sam Perrone, and litigation & enforcement partner Andrew O’Connor, rejoin to discuss patient assistance programs, recent enforcement actions, and...more

Venable LLP

OIG Reminds Us that Flat Fee Business Arrangements Aren’t Immune from AKS Scrutiny

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On July 1, 2025, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued Advisory Opinion No. 25-08, concluding that a medical device manufacturer’s proposed payment to access a...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In Biggest Stark-Based FCA Settlement Ever, Indiana Hospital Pays $345M, Has Unusual CIA

Community Health Network (CHN) in Indiana has agreed to pay $345 million to settle false claims allegations that it paid over-the-top salaries to hundreds of physicians and rewarded them for their referrals in violation of...more

Mintz

EnforceMintz — COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Unlikely to Slow Down in 2024

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The government continued to dedicate enormous resources to investigating and prosecuting fraud against COVID-19 pandemic relief programs in 2023. While we observed some civil False Claims Act settlements, criminal enforcement...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

HHS-OIG Year in Review 2023

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is tasked with providing objective oversight to protect the integrity and promote the efficiency of Medicare, Medicaid, and more than...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

[Webinar] How Not to Lose $1M: Preparing for HHS-OIG Info Blocking Enforcement - August 15th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT

The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued a final rule to implement its authority under the 21st Century Cures Act to investigate allegations of information blocking and...more

Alston & Bird

OIG Adds New Teeth to the Information Blocking Rule

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Our Health Care Group shares what you need to know about how the Department of Health and Human Services implemented civil monetary penalties and enforcement authority for information blocking....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Special Report - A Million Reasons to Share: OIG’s Final Rule on Information Blocking Enforcement

On July 3, 2023, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its long-awaited final rule implementing the 21st Century Cures Act provisions authorizing OIG to investigate claims...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

OIG 2022 Advisory Opinions: Year in Review

The Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) is responsible for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse in federal health care programs. The OIG has...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Public Health Emergency Ends May 11: What Telehealth Companies Need to Know

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On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced its intent to end the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023. The PHE has been in place for over three years during which time many telehealth and...more

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Increased Federal Attention to Skilled Nursing Facility Compliance and Quality Improvement Results in Modified Program...

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The Biden Administration has embraced an aggressive and multi-part agenda designed to improve the safety and quality of care nationally in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The Biden Administration’s nursing home agenda...more

Goodwin

OIG Alert and DOJ Enforcement Action Summary: Telemedicine Arrangements

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The July 20, 2022 Special Fraud Alert describes findings from what OIG describes as “dozens of investigations of fraud schemes involving companies that purported to provide telehealth, telemedicine, or telemarketing services”...more

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Environmental Criminal Enforcement/Alleged Water Samples Falsification: U.S. EPA Office of Inspector General Announces Tumwater,...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a June 16th news release stating that Clearwater Utility Services of Tumwater, Washington, and its owner pleaded guilty to...more

Pullman & Comley - Connecticut Health Law

Short Staffing May Still be Hindering Health Care in Connecticut but OIG's Exclusion Authority Remains Alive and Well

Can a 40-year-old fraud and abuse law that compared to many others is relatively straightforward still get providers into trouble?  Answer: You bet!  In fact, in the first quarter of 2022 alone, the U.S. Attorney for the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Two Washington Universities Ink Settlements For Exceeding Salaries, Falsified Application

Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 12 (December, 2021) - Washington State University’s (WSU) recent settlement with the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) for more than $800,000 followed a university-wide audit that...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 30, Number 7. News Briefs: February 2021 #2

Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 7 (February 22, 2021) - A Michigan woman is the first in the nation to be charged criminally with misappropriating money from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF), the Department of Justice...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Interoperability and Information Blocking: What Providers, Payers and IT Developers Need to Know about New Enforcement Timelines

- On May 1, 2020, the ONC Interoperability, Information Blocking, and Health IT Certification Program Final Rule and the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule were published in the Federal Register, marking the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 4. News Briefs: February 2020

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 4 (February 3, 2020) - ? Central Coast Inpatient Consultants Inc. in California has agreed to pay $750,000 in a civil monetary penalty settlement with the HHS Office of Inspector...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

OIG’s Latest Congressional Report Sees Continued Emphasis on Fraud and Abuse Enforcement

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In the final quarter of calendar year 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) released its Semiannual Report to Congress (the “Report”). The Report covers the six-month period...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance 28, no. 38: News Brief - October 2019 #3

Report on Medicare Compliance 28, no. 38 (Oct. 28, 2019) - - Doctors Hospital of Augusta in Georgia agreed to pay $180,000 in a civil monetary penalty settlement over alleged violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment...more

Baker Donelson

HRSA to Enforce 340B Program Oversight of Drug Manufacturers Next Year and Share 340B Ceiling Prices with Covered Entities

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Two recent announcements by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) highlight the agency's plans for increased oversight in the next year of drug manufacturers under the 340B drug pricing program and...more

K&L Gates LLP

K&L Gates Triage: Internal & External Health Care Investigations

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In this episode, Mark Rush and John Lawrence discuss the federal government’s expectations related to health care organizations conducting internal investigations and demonstrating a commitment to compliance. The episode also...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review 2017

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A LOOK BACK... A LOOK AHEAD - While the uncertainty associated with legislative efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) dominated most of the headlines for the healthcare industry last year,...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Healthcare Leaders cite Fraud and Abuse Laws as Obstacle to Value-Based Arrangements

As the healthcare industry moves towards value-based purchasing, pay-for-performance, and other payment reform models, industry leaders have identified federal fraud and abuse laws as a barrier to full implementation of such...more

King & Spalding

OIG Issues Revised Policy Statement Regarding Permissive Exclusion

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On April 18, 2016, the Office of Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued a revised policy statement containing the new criteria that OIG intends to use in implementing its...more

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