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On January 3, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion No. 23-12, approving a physician-owned hospital’s offer to redeem over a two-year period the...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for September 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act (FCA), the...more
On July 11, 2023, OIG posted Advisory Opinion 23-04 regarding the use of an online healthcare directory for Federal healthcare program beneficiaries to find and book appointments with medical providers. Requestor sought OIG’s...more
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
This special inaugural issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights noticeable enforcement activity, OIG regulatory developments, CMS regulatory developments and other key developments for healthcare...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued an advisory opinion under the federal physician-self referral law (the “Stark Law”) (Advisory Opinion No. CMS-AO-2021-2) (the “Advisory Opinion”) clarifying...more
In an advisory opinion posted November 10, 2021 (AO 21-15), the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) appeared to soften a disturbing position that it had taken in...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released Advisory Opinion No. CMS-AO-2021-01 in June 2021, which gave the requestor the green light to provide designated health services (“DHS”) through wholly-owned...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued Advisory Opinion No. CMS-AO-2021-01 on whether a wholly-owned physician practice that provides designated health services (“DHS”) through one or more wholly-owned...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued Advisory Opinion No. CMS-AO-2021-01, clarifying that physician groups that furnish designated health services (e.g., laboratory, imaging) through wholly-owned...more
A recent advisory opinion issued by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has generated a great deal of buzz in the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) world. However, in some ways, the buzz is overstated and does not...more
William F. Gould In United States v. Merino, No. 19-50291, 2021 WL 754589 (9th Cir. Feb. 26, 2021), the court of appeals reversed the conviction of Marina Merino of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in violation of 18...more
Although often well-intentioned, offering free or discounted items or services to patients (e.g., gifts, rewards, writing off copays, free screening exams, free supplies, etc.) may violate federal and state laws governing...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated its advisory opinion regulations, codified at 42 CFR §§ 411.370 through 411.389, in a final rule issued November 15, 2019. The update liberalizes and...more
As reported previously, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently published two proposed rules that seek to implement wholesale changes to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and...more
In the calendar year 2020 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule (“PFS”), which was published in the Federal Register on November 15, 2019 (available here), CMS finalized changes to the advisory opinion process under the...more
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) each released their long-anticipated proposed rules to revise the federal...more
A physician-owned hospital with operating rooms at a second campus that have been inactive since before March 23, 2010 received approval from CMS to include such spaces within the hospital's aggregate capacity limits,...more
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sought input on ways to address the undue burdens of the Stark law through a Request for Information (RFI) in June 2018, its anticipated focus was care coordination,...more
On July 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the CY 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule, which included substantial changes to the physician self-referral law (Stark Law)...more
While the industry awaits more sweeping value-based related changes to the Stark Law regulations, on July 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took a small step toward updating its Stark Law advisory...more
Regulation - CMS Contemplating Telemedicine Changes - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published what it described as a "major proposed rule" that covers a number of topics that could have...more
Many North Carolina hospital systems have separate business corporations or limited liability companies to house the physician component of their integrated health care delivery systems. Hospitals may take this step for any...more
A clinical laboratory has received a green light from CMS to offer pop-up notifications alerting physicians of various potential issues (Laboratory Alerts) through its web-based portal for ordering and reporting results of...more
On October 21, 2015 the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General posted Advisory Opinion No. 15-13. This Opinion relates to a request for Advisory Opinion about a plan to offer free van shuttle...more