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Quarles & Brady LLP

Accessing Opioid Settlement Funds

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While federal funding for addiction treatment programs and research is being cut, more than $50 billion is being distributed to state and local programs from opioid-related lawsuits. There is great debate on the use of these...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

From $5,000 to $800,000: Days Apart, OCR Security Settlements Show Puzzling Math

A single incident that may have started as a personal vendetta or an extortion threat seven years ago has cost a Florida health care system $800,000, and comes on the heels of an unrelated breach suffered by a different...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Connecticut Dentists Bite Off More Than They Can Chew; Settle False Claims Allegations for Nearly $500,000

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On May 9, Connecticut Attorney General (AG) William Tong, in collaboration with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, announced a $495,721 false claims settlement with Advanced Dental Center PC (Advanced...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Health Law Diagnosis - Stark Settlement Targeting Hospital and Physicians a Reminder for Health Care Organizations

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On March 29, 2023, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced a notable set of three settlements (collectively, the Settlement) in excess of $69 million dollars total with a...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Stark Settlement Targeting Hospital and Physicians a Reminder for Health Care Organizations

On March 29, 2023, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced a notable set of three settlements (collectively, the Settlement) in excess of $69 million dollars total with a...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Recent FCA Settlements Warn Providers of Improper Billing Practices

Two recent multi-million dollar False Claims Act (“FCA”) settlements demonstrate the vigor with which the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) is investigating and prosecuting allegedly fraudulent health care billing practices....more

Jones Day

Public Branding, the OIG's New Method of Punishing Health Care Entities?

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The Situation: The total number of Corporate Integrity Agreements ("CIAs") between the Office of Inspector General ("OIG") and health care entities has been decreasing, and the OIG recently decided it would spotlight entities...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

OCR Announces $125,000 Settlement for Disclosure of Patient Information to Reporter

The United States Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement this week with Allergy Associates of Hartford, P.C. ...more

Mintz

Health Care Qui Tam Update

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In this issue, we provide an overview of 62 recently unsealed qui tam cases and take an in-depth look at four of those cases. Two of the featured cases concern alleged schemes to provide unnecessary therapy to residents of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Fresenius Pays OCR $3.5M for Five Separate Data Breaches Affecting a Total of 521 Individuals

In the first settlement for HIPAA violations in 2018, Fresenius Medical Care North America (Fresenius) has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to settle allegations against it relating to five data...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

OCR Enters into $750,000 Settlement with Physician Practice for HIPAA Violations

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On September 2, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Cancer Care Group, P.C., a thirteen-physician oncology practice in Indiana related to violations of the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

OCR settlement reiterates importance of proactive security rule compliance

On September 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced that Cancer Care Group, P.C. (CCG), a physician practice located in Indiana, agreed to pay $750,000 as part of a settlement to resolve...more

Saul Ewing LLP

$750,000 Settlement Agreement Reiterates Importance of HIPAA Security Rule Compliance

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On September 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") announced that it had entered into a Settlement Agreement with an Indiana-based medical practice for alleged violations of the Health Insurance...more

The Volkov Law Group

Mead Johnson: Baby Formula and Bribes

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Last week, the SEC announced a settlement of an FCPA enforcement action for $12 million against Mead Johnson Nutrition for payment of bribes in China to health care professionals at state-owned hospitals. Mead Johnson’s...more

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