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Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | July 2025 Recap

This issue of McDermott Will & Schulte’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for July 2025, including the results of the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, DOJ...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Opportunities and Risks in Remote Patient Monitoring and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring for 2026

The Calendar Year 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule (see Orrick’s analysis of the proposed rule here) contains important signals for the future of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

A Prescription for Caution: Senators Release Investigative Report on Direct-To-Consumer Telehealth Models

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On July 17, the offices of Senators Durbin (D. IL.), Warren (D. MA.), Sanders (I. VT.), and Welch (D. VT.) (collectively, “Senators”) released a report summarizing the results of a nine month investigation into...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, V 2, Issue 7, July 2025

Welcome to our seventh issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at the so called “One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act” and its impacts on Medicaid and healthcare, the...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | April 2025 Recap

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for April 2025, including Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updates to Medicare Advantage (MA) and other Medicare programs....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | February 2025 Recap

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for February 2025, including long-awaited proposed and final rules regarding the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

HHS-OIG Year in Review 2024

In 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) provided useful insights to the healthcare industry regarding how it approaches various fraud and abuse issues in an...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, Issue 7, November 2024

Welcome to our seventh issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. This will be our final issue of 2024. When we started this publication earlier this year, our goal was to provide our clients,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Health Care Enforcement: “Tea Leaves” in the 2024 National Health Care Fraud Summer Takedown

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Each summer in recent years, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and associated fraud enforcement partners have indicted many health care defendants, in multiple cases across the country. This summer continued the tradition....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Healthcare Execs Face Federal Drug Charges in Landmark Telehealth Case

In a first-of-its-kind prosecution, federal prosecutors have charged two healthcare executives with unlawfully distributing controlled substances, such as Adderall, through a telehealth website. These charges demonstrate...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | May 2024 Recap

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for May 2024. We discuss several notable cases and enforcement resolutions, including the US Court of Appeals for the District of...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

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

False Claims Act Case Unsealed Against Cerebral, Showing Continued Scrutiny of Telehealth Prescriptions

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A qui tam False Claims Act (FCA) complaint was recently unsealed against Cerebral, a telehealth startup that provides virtual mental-health therapy, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa....more

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Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | August 2023 Recap

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for August 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Healthcare Regulatory Check-up Newsletter | June 2023 Recap

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for June 2023. We discuss several civil enforcement actions involving false claims, the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | May 2023 Recap

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for May 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act (FCA)...more

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Health Care Enforcement: Review of 2022 and A Look Ahead to 2023

This is the third part in our 2023 series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations. Up next: congressional investigations. Health care fraud enforcement remained a top priority at both the national...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Telemental Health Laws: Overview - 2022

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Since 2016, Epstein Becker Green (EBG) has researched, compiled, and analyzed state-specific content relating to the regulatory requirements for professional mental/behavioral health practitioners and stakeholders seeking to...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

The DOJ Continues to Prosecute Providers for Fraudulent Telemarketing and Telehealth

A physician in Washington state pled guilty on September 28, 2022, to a criminal charge of conspiring to accept kickbacks related to fraudulent genetic testing. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the physician...more

Burr & Forman

The DOJ Continues to Scrutinize Telemedicine

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Telemedicine saw a dramatic increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent study from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), released in December 2021, showed an increase in Medicare telemedicine visits...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Don’t Just Phone It In – Avoiding Fraud in Telehealth Contracts

To facilitate the provision of care during the pandemic, the federal government and many state governments enacted changes that encouraged physicians and other nonphysician practitioners (collectively, Practitioners) to use...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Suspect Characteristics Identified under a Telehealth Special Fraud Alert

HHS-OIG issued a new Special Fraud Alert on relationships with “purported telemedicine companies” on July 20, 2022. The Special Fraud Alert comes on the heels of a nationally coordinated takedown charging dozens of...more

Burr & Forman

Health Care E-Note - March 2022

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HELPFUL HINTS - Justice Department Reports More Than $8B In Alleged Fraud Related to COVID-19 Relief Programs - The Washington Post reports, “Since the U.S. government first marshaled its historic economic response...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Medicare to Implement CJR: Mandatory Bundled Payment Program for Joint Replacement Surgeries

On Nov. 24, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will publish in the Federal Register the final rule for the Comprehensive Care Joint Replacement (CJR) Program. The CJR Program is a new payment model that requires...more

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Recent Developments in Massachusetts Health Policy

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Building on the momentum of early October hearings on the state’s growing health care expenditures, the Health Policy Commission (HPC), the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, Governor Charlie Baker, and others spent...more

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