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Daily Compliance News: August 1, 2025, The All AI Edition
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Daily Compliance News: July 23, 2025 the Pardon in the Wind? Edition
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Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Objective 3 – Control Activities
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On July 24, 2025, the OIG released reports evaluating the prevalence of patient harm in hospitals and the extent to which hospitals detect and report such events. These evaluations follow up on OIG’s 2022 report and provide...more
Increasing audit activity combined with certain decreasingly favorable audit appeal outcomes has resulted in hospices appealing audit results beyond the administrative law judge phase and into federal court. In this episode,...more
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)’s oversight of prior authorization criteria for behavioral health services (BHS) by Medicare...more
Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report determining that there is a nontrivial risk that prior authorization requirements, together with internal coverage criteria, may undermine the Medicare...more
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced plans to close six of the nation’s 10 regional offices for the HHS Office of the General Counsel (“OGC”). These closures, which...more
Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule (Final Rule) expanded the scope of providers subject to a provisional period of enhanced oversight (PPEO) to include...more
A new inspector general report finds that Medicare Part C reimbursement to private insurers increased by $4.2 billion in 2023 for diagnoses from home visits despite leading to no additional treatment. ...more
Over the past two years, federal and state government agencies have moved to regulate the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare setting, including in the utilization management (UM) and prior...more
On September 24, 2024, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a report titled, “Additional Oversight of Remote Patient Monitoring in Medicare Is Needed” (the...more
With the end of the first quarter of 2024, we highlight five developments, changes, or challenges that health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, physician practices, health insurers, and other health care providers,...more
The goal of value-based care (VBC) is to promote better care for individual patients and improved health outcomes for communities at reduced costs. This is an important and admirable purpose as many VBC stakeholders attempt...more
As we approach the conclusion of another transformative year, we are excited to present our comprehensive year-end review, shedding light on the trends shaping the healthcare market in 2023. Our team’s keen insights and...more
Recently the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced in a newly released MedLearn Matter (MLN7867599, July 2023) that effective as of July 13, 2021, any “new hospice agency” located in the states of Texas,...more
The healthcare enforcement landscape is shifting quickly. This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Enforcement Quarterly examines emerging trends and key issues for organizations that may become subject to enforcement scrutiny,...more
On February 28, 2022, the White House issued a fact sheet outlining several efforts aimed to increase safety, accountability, oversight and transparency in the senior services industry (Fact Sheet). Although the Fact Sheet’s...more
The False Claims Act (“FCA”) is a punitive civil statute that acts as the federal government’s primary tool for combatting fraud in government health care programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare. In fiscal year 2020...more
The 340B Program has gained national attention over the last decade, in part due to the opportunities it provides to generate revenue for participating entities without risk of significant enforcement penalties for...more
Celebrating its sixth program, McDermott+Consulting’s +Dx Diagnostics Forum is the premier annual program for the laboratory diagnostics community. Gain insight into how the industry addresses regulatory and business...more
Four separate government releases coming over a three-week period have once again highlighted the intense interest in the 340B drug pricing program, with a federal agency and two government watchdog groups issuing guidance...more
On January 13, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new streamlined survey and certification process for psychiatric hospitals as part of the agency’s “Patients over Paperwork” initiative. ...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) healthcare audit programs – including the Unified Program Integrity Contractors (“UPICs”) audit program, the Recovery Audit Contractor (“RAC”) program, the Comprehensive...more
In its final Calendar Year (CY) 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Rule released November 2, 2018 (the Final Rule), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized its proposal to make payments for...more
On October 25, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) describing a potential mandatory model to test Medicare reimbursement based on an "International...more
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia handed down a major victory to Medicare Advantage issuers on September 7, 2018, vacating a 2014 CMS regulation relating to Medicare Advantage overpayments. ...more