We are pleased to bring you our 12th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review. Our Review provides comprehensive coverage of the most significant civil and criminal enforcement issues facing healthcare providers. Each year, we...more
2/27/2024
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
CARES Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Kickbacks ,
Medical Devices ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physicians ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Qui Tam ,
Settlement ,
Stark Law ,
Telemedicine
Please join us for the 9th Annual Nashville Healthcare Fraud Conference hosted by Bass, Berry & Sims and the Tennessee Hospital Association. Eligible for more than seven hours of CLE credit (including ethics), this...more
11/27/2023
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
C-Suite Executives ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Chief Privacy Officer ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Criminal Liability ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement ,
Ethics ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Hospitals ,
Laboratories ,
Long-Term Care ,
MCOs ,
Mental Health ,
Physicians ,
Self-Disclosure Requirements ,
Substance Abuse ,
Webinars
Please join us for the 9th Annual Nashville Healthcare Fraud Conference hosted by Bass, Berry & Sims and the Tennessee Hospital Association. Eligible for more than seven hours of CLE credit (including ethics), this...more
11/27/2023
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
C-Suite Executives ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Chief Privacy Officer ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Criminal Liability ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement ,
Ethics ,
Events ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Hospitals ,
Laboratories ,
Long-Term Care ,
MCOs ,
Mental Health ,
Physicians ,
Self-Disclosure Requirements ,
Substance Abuse
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently posted Advisory Opinion 22-20, approving an acute care hospital’s arrangement under which its employed nurse practitioners...more
1/6/2023
/ Acute Facilities ,
Advisory Opinions ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Nurse Practitioners ,
OIG ,
Physicians ,
Remuneration ,
Stark Law
Ensuring compliance with the False Claims Act has never been more important for healthcare providers. By March 2020, we saw healthcare professionals standing at the forefront of one of the greatest health crises in a...more
2/4/2021
/ Annual Reports ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
CARES Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Long Term Care Facilities ,
Medical Devices ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) ,
Nurses ,
Nursing Homes ,
OIG ,
Opioid ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmacist ,
Physicians ,
Qui Tam ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Stark Law ,
Telemedicine
In a coordinated effort, on November 27, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published final rules to modernize regulations implementing the federal...more
12/22/2020
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Final Rules ,
Health Care Providers ,
New Value Exception ,
OIG ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Physicians ,
Rebates ,
Safe Harbors ,
Stark Law ,
Technology Sector
In a coordinated effort, CMS and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published proposed rules to modernize regulations implementing the federal physician-self referral law, commonly referred to as the “Stark Law” (Stark),...more
10/30/2019
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Beneficiary Inducement ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Comment Period ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
EHR ,
Health Care Providers ,
OIG ,
Proposed Rules ,
Public Comment ,
Safe Harbors ,
Stark Law ,
Value-Based Care
On July 17, 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee Subcommittee on Health ("Subcommittee") expressed its commitment to modernizing the Stark Law during a hearing in which industry and government...more
7/19/2018
/ ACOs ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Alternative Payment Models (APM) ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) ,
OIG ,
Request For Information ,
Stark Law ,
Ways and Means Committee