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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District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser’s FY 2026 Budget introduces a new Basic Health Program (BHP) that will fundamentally reshape health coverage options for thousands of District residents beginning next calendar year....more
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A group of 22 Democratic AGs submitted comments opposing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’s (CMS) Proposed Rule, which would change enrollment, eligibility, and coverage under the Patient Protection and...more
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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more
Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to demonstrate the importance and effectiveness of telemedicine as a means of providing patients with access to safe and quality medical care through the use of technology... Originally...more
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The Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) has agreed to pay $57 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that alleged it billed the Medicare and Medicaid programs for hundreds of millions of dollars in home care visits...more
On March 17, 2020, acting under the Coronavirus Preparedness And Response Supplemental Appropriations Act (the “Act”) and section 1135(b) of the Social Security Act, the Secretary waived certain telehealth reimbursement...more
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and other Federal and State agencies and...more
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