Hospice Insights Podcast - Hospice Audit Updates: Hospices Fare Well in Federal Court
HHS OIG’s Nursing Facility: Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance
Podcast - Innovations and Insights in the Palliative Care Space
Hospice Insights Podcast - Hospice Audit Updates: David Beats Goliath
False Claims Act Insights - Trump DOJ Sharpens Its Focus on Healthcare Fraud
UPIC Audits
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 10: Anti-Kickback Compliance for Hospice and Skilled Nursing Providers
Healthcare Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidances (ICPGs)
Hospice Insights Podcast - One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Figuring Out What is Your Hospice+
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 27: U.S. Healthcare Reimbursement Guidance for Foreign Life Sciences Companies
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 8: Hospice Special Focus Program: Pumping the Brakes
Hospice Insights Podcast - Meet the New Laws, Same as the Old Laws: Overpayment Recoupment Update
Podcast — Drug Pricing: How the Demise of Chevron Deference and Other Litigation May Impact the Pharmaceutical Industry
Podcast — Drug Pricing: How Are Payers Responding to the IRA?
Hospice Insights Podcast - A Rise in Medicare Deactivations: Tips for Avoiding This Financial Pain
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 187: South Carolina Hospitals and Healthcare Industry Trends with Thornton Kirby, SCHA President
A Fond Farewell: Musings on the End of the Medicare Advantage Hospice Carve-In Demonstration
Video: Braidwood v. Becerra – Challenging the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Services Coverage Provision – Thought Leaders in Health Law
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 173: Improving rural health care with Dr. Kevin Bennett, the Director of the Research Center for Transforming Health and the
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 19
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In last year’s edition of EnforceMintz, we predicted that 2024 would bring an increase in False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement activity related to COVID-19 pandemic fraud. Those predictions proved correct. The COVID-19 Fraud...more
The following is a summary of selected federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported...more
In its August 15, 2023, Enforcement listserv notice, the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) published its Work Plan Updates for August. This article will highlight three of the...more
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Uninsured Program (UIP), which reimbursed providers for provision of COVID-19 related services to uninsured individuals, paid out more than $24.5 billion in claims....more
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
General and specialty compliance education from the comfort of your home or office - HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide practitioners with virtual compliance learning that covers a wide variety of...more
Digital health is one of the fast-growing segments of the healthcare market, with patients, clinicians and regulators increasingly aligned behind the opportunities that digitization presents. Over the last three years,...more
The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (EKRA) is a criminal statute that prohibits paying or receiving anything of value in exchange for the referral of patients to recovery homes, clinical treatment facilities, or...more
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
On December 19, 2022, OIG released its annual report analyzing Medicare Part B spending on laboratory tests over the past year. According to OIG, Medicare Part B spending on laboratory tests increased 17% from $8.0 billion in...more
On December 1, 2022, the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) Health Care Subgroup published a report about the use of telehealth in selected health care programs across six federal agencies during the first year...more
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicare coverage expanded to include a vast arsenal of tools that help patients access medical services while keeping patients and practitioners safe. Many of these tools involve telehealth...more
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has, for the last several years, been actively auditing hospices regarding their Medicare regulatory and billing compliance, with a national hospice audit in the works. Recently, OIG...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a report last month assessing the program integrity risks associated with Medicare telehealth services. After analyzing...more
OIG Warns That Proposed Drug Discounts May Warrant Sanctions - On October 5, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an advisory opinion assessing a proposal that involved...more
Recently, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) for the Department of Health and Human Services published its Report on Medicare Telehealth Services During the First Year of the Pandemic: Program Integrity Risks...more
A pair of reports recently issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) highlight the important role telehealth services have played in ensuring access to medical...more
Holland & Knight Health Dose Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector. ...more
On September 2, 2022, OIG published a report of its findings summarizing its investigation into whether providers appropriately billed for Medicare beneficiaries’ telehealth services. This report analyzed data from the...more
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a Data Brief summarizing the findings of a review of program integrity risks related to telehealth services reimbursed by...more
As part of the Federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the coverage of telehealth services by Medicare was greatly expanded by CMS through the COVID-19 telehealth waivers. Further expansion of...more
Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us virtually at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance...more
On June 6, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), released its spring 2022 semiannual report to Congress. The semiannual report covers the period of October 1, 2021 to...more
The following is a summary of the federal Health and Human Services agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported are based...more