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What’s in Your Operating Agreement? Legal Tips for Healthcare Providers
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 26, 2025
Key Discovery Points: Don’t Get Caught with Your Hand in the Production Cookie Jar
Work this Way: An Employment Law Video Podcast | Episode 50: Creating a Competitive Advantage Through Employee Benefits with Connor Shaw of Gallagher
False Claims Act Insights - Will Recent Leadership Changes Lead to FCA Enforcement Policy Changes?
Podcast: Addressing Patient Complaints About Privacy Violations
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 236: Advocating for Accessible Diagnoses with Sydney Severance of Operation Upright
Podcast - Navigating the New Landscape of Private Equity in Healthcare
Taking the Pulse: A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 235: Revolutionizing Cancer Care with Eric Perrault of Kiyatec
Evolving AI Legislation: Federal Policies, Task Forces, and Proposed Laws — The Good Bot Podcast
CareYaya: A Revolutionary Approach to Elder Care
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 234: Life-Saving Collaboration in the Life Sciences Industry with John Crowley, President & CEO of BIO
False Claims Act Insights - Trump DOJ Sharpens Its Focus on Healthcare Fraud
Federal Court Strikes Down FDA Rule on LDTs - Thought Leaders in Health Law®
Breaking Down the Shifting Vaccine Policy Landscape – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
Criminal Health Care Fraud Enforcement: Projections for 2025 and Beyond – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
Healthcare Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidances (ICPGs)
Bass, Berry & Sims is pleased to announce the release of the 13th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review examining important healthcare fraud developments in 2024. Compiled by the firm's Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Task Force,...more
All indications appear to point toward a robust market for health care mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the coming year. Inflation — finally — appears to be easing. With that, we may continue to see interest rate cuts from...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for December 2024. We discuss several civil and criminal enforcement actions pertaining to healthcare fraud and abuse authorities,...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for November 2024. We discuss several US Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement actions involving the False Claims Act (FCA) and the...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for September 2024. We discuss several enforcement actions pertaining to healthcare fraud, including alleged violations under the False...more
Although private equity (PE) sponsors have been active investors in the health care services industry for the last decade, PE-backed health care providers today constitute only 4% of the United States health market by...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for August 2024. We discuss several enforcement actions pertaining to healthcare fraud, including alleged violations under the False...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for June 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including guidance regarding hospital...more
Previously, we discussed how the US Supreme Court’s opinion in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce could create opportunities for private litigants to challenge health...more
Meaningful progress has been made in value-based care, but the documented advances in reducing costs and improving patient outcomes have taken place predominately in the primary care sector. Significantly less headway has...more
Welcome to our inaugural issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter! As such, we wanted to pull together our insights and pass them along to you. Our goal is to create a publication that is...more
Despite the recent downward trend in DOJ healthcare industry settlements, the first quarter of 2024 saw many noteworthy False Claims Act (FCA) and civil healthcare fraud settlements related to alleged kickbacks, medically...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for March 2024. We summarize a US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision interpreting the intent standard under the federal...more
We are pleased to bring you our 12th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review. Our Review provides comprehensive coverage of the most significant civil and criminal enforcement issues facing healthcare providers. Each year, we...more
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
In a case that may hit a raw compliance nerve, Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital in Michigan has agreed to pay $100,000 in a settlement with the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) over free services provided to certain...more
Community Health Network, Inc. (“Community Health”) is a non-profit healthcare system with more than 200 hundred affiliated sites throughout central Indiana. As such, Community Health is one of the larger Midwest...more
The health care industry has a rich history of commitment and innovation in developing effective compliance programs. Going back to the 1990s, HHS elevated compliance program requirements for healthcare companies. Many of...more
In Short - The Situation: On November 6, 2023, the Office of Inspector General ("OIG") of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") released its "General Compliance Program Guidance" ("GCPG"). The GCPG...more
The Nelson Mullins 2023 Value Based Care Conference: Implementing Value Based Strategies, was held on November 2, 2023, at the Tower Club in Fort Lauderdale. By any definition, the event, which has become an annual “can’t...more
On November 6, 2023, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG) as part of its plan to renovate its library of compliance program...more
There are many rules and regulations governing attending physician visits and medical directors. Unfortunately, there is plenty of room for error when documenting attending physician visits, establishing medical director...more
Hospitals play a vital role in ensuring the well-being of communities by recruiting and employing skilled physicians. However, physician recruitment in compliance with the Stark Law can be a complex task for hospital...more
When the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) ended on May 11, 2023, many physician groups furnishing certain medical equipment, devices, and/or supplies to their Medicare patients became in violation of the federal...more
Fair market value (FMV) is a pinnacle issue with respect to healthcare regulatory compliance and compensation agreements. This article will analyze the issues related to an FMV defensibility analysis of compensation...more