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Taking it Seriously: Unusual Lease Violations in Virginia
Following Judge Frederic Block's March 31, 2025, issuance of a temporary restraining order (TRO) temporarily halting New York state's push to consolidate the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) under a...more
Nassau County Judge Jerome C. Murphy issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Jan. 27, 2025, preventing the New York State Department of Health (DOH) from moving forward with the consolidation of the Consumer Directed...more
This seventh edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, sees a continuation of the trend we identified last week: shutdown challenges, workers' compensation claims, and wrongful death lawsuits...more
Recent opinions by the Fifth Circuit, the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas, and the District of South Carolina offer hope to providers seeking relief from substantial monetary recoupments during the Medicare appeals...more
For the first time in the District of South Carolina, and the Fourth Circuit, a Medicare provider has successfully obtained a district court order enjoining CMS from recouping Medicare payments following an overpayment...more
Medicare’s implementation of post-payment review through overly aggressive zone program integrity contractors (ZPICs) and unified program integrity contracts (UPICs), combined with an ineffective review process at the first...more
A home health agency has scored a second win in its fight to prevent CMS from withholding Medicare payments (to effectuate a recoupment of alleged overpayments), at least for the time being. We previously reported on the...more
Medicare’s implementation of post-payment review through overly aggressive private contractors, combined with an ineffective review process at the first two levels of the administrative appeal process (redetermination and...more
On March 27, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit published an opinion that provides Family Rehabilitation, Inc. (Family Rehab) a second chance to postpone recoupment of about $7.6 million in...more
Recently, we have noticed an alarming increase within the Spilman footprint of revocations by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") of physicians' Medicare billing privileges. In particular, CMS has been...more
2018 AG Elections- Republican Sam McClure Announces Bid for Alabama Attorney General - Sam McClure, a Birmingham adoption lawyer, announced his candidacy to become the Alabama AG. McClure is the fourth Republican to...more