Hospice Insights Podcast - Where’s the Line: When Does Poor Quality Create False Claims Liability
AI and the False Claims Act
HHS OIG’s Nursing Facility: Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance
Hospice Insights Podcast - Hospice Audit Updates: David Beats Goliath
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)
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 7: OIG Report Reveals Gaps in Hospice PRF Compliance: What Providers Need to Know
Hospice Insights Podcast - A Refresh: What’s New in the New OIG General Compliance Program Guidance
Understanding the HHS OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance
OMG. . .The OIG is at it Again
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 19
Episode 303 --- Deep Dive into the HHS-OIG Compliance Program Guidance
Navigating GSA Audits Compliance Strategies and Best Practices
DE Under 3: US DOL Inspector General’s Office Report Cites IT Modernization & Security Concerns
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 17
Episode 280 -- Healthcare Compliance and Fraud
Heed Caution: Takeaways From the OIG's Advance Care Planning Report
Telehealth Risk Report: What the Government Found
UPIC Report Card: The OIG’s Evaluation of the UPICs Provides Insight Into the Future of Hospice Audits
COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series | Pulling the Strings: New OIG Audits Scrutinize How Hospices Used Provider Relief Funds
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
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
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for April 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including the Calendar Year (CY) 2025...more
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
On June 28, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG”), along with other federal and state law enforcement partners, announced a...more
Walking away from the American Health Law Association’s annual conference, I’m feeling energized from (re)connecting with friends and colleagues, inspired by the complex and transformational work being done throughout the...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
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued two notable compliance updates, of which health care organizations should take note as the COVID-19 public health emergency ends and regulatory compliance activities ramp...more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued two notable compliance updates today, of which health care organizations should take note as the COVID-19 public health emergency ends and regulatory compliance activities ramp up....more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continues to offer valuable insights to the healthcare industry as to how best to approach increasingly complex healthcare fraud...more
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
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
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
For the last few years, we have been closely monitoring and reporting on COVID-19 related fraud enforcement efforts by federal agencies. We detailed those findings in our Health Care Enforcement 2020 Year in Review & 2021...more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently created a new webpage related to telehealth. The purpose of the webpage is to summarize the OIG’s telehealth oversight work to provide a summary of its findings and...more
The federal Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently published a report (OIG Report) as part of a series of analyses of the expansion and utilization of telehealth in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. In...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has intensified its already aggressive crackdown on fraud related to COVID-19, recently announcing criminal charges against a telemedicine company executive, a physician, marketers and medical...more
The Justice Department, in coordination with HHS-OIG and the FBI recently announced the arrest and prosecution of 35 individuals for a massive genetic testing fraud scheme involving dozens of telemedicine companies and cancer...more
In this episode, Hilary Bowman summarizes recent updates to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) 2017 Work Plan. Specifically, she discusses OIG’s plans to investigate and audit...more
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) can share costs of telehealth and remote patient monitoring services among their hospitals, providers/suppliers, and other ACO participants, according to federal regulations under the...more
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Telehealth continues to be an innovative alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar medicine. The number of providers offering telehealth services is rapidly increasing and states are enacting laws requiring health plans to...more