Investigations, Penalties, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Investigations Newsletter: Federal Court Imposes Nearly $1 Billion in FCA Damages and Penalties Against Omnicare and CVS

ArentFox Schiff on 7/14/2025

Federal Court Imposes Nearly $1 Billion in FCA Damages and Penalties Against Omnicare and CVS - On July 7, Southern District of New York District Judge Colleen McMahon increased a False Claims Act (FCA) judgment from $136...more

DOJ and HHS Announce FCA Working Group

Rivkin Radler LLP on 7/11/2025

On July 2, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the formation of the DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group to strengthen “their ongoing collaboration to advance...more

Hospital Administrators – Is Your Hospital Cyber-Secure?

Lippes Mathias LLP on 11/20/2024

On October 2, 2024, New York adopted new regulations requiring general hospitals to implement heightened cybersecurity safeguards. General hospitals, as defined in Article 28 of the NY Public Health Law, generally must begin...more

21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule Finally Has Teeth With Respect to Providers

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 7/12/2024

On July 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published a final rule...more

Ensuring Child Labor Law Compliance Amid Growing Scrutiny

Foley & Lardner LLP on 8/21/2023

In February, the New York Times published an investigative report regarding alleged employment of underage migrants, many from Central America, at U.S. companies. While employment of certain minors is permitted under federal...more

Revised Privacy Rule May Not Emerge for Two Years; Info Blocking Penalty Regulation Published

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 7/17/2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 7 (July 2023) In two public talks this spring, Melanie Fontes Rainer, director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), said completing the 2021 proposed regulation extensively...more

Benefits Monthly Minute - July 2022

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL on 7/28/2022

The July Monthly Minute addresses a steep settlement and corrective action plan resulting from a widespread HIPAA breach, along with recent employer-friendly cases that highlight judicial support for inclusion of actively...more

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