Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 10
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Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Regulatory and Enforcement Update
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Each summer in recent years, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and associated fraud enforcement partners have indicted many health care defendants, in multiple cases across the country. This summer continued the tradition....more
Historically, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has not aggressively pursued enforcement activity under the Sunshine Act. However, this may change in 2024. Late last year, CMS updated its Open Payments...more
On December 4, 2023, CMS issued an interim final rule (the Interim Rule) (RIN 0938-AV26) to implement new enforcement authorities that CMS may use if states fail to comply with new reporting requirements or with federal...more
After the publication of our Legal Alert on the Supreme Court decision lifting the stay on the Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination Interim Final Rule (the “Rule”) published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...more
On November 6, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked enforcement of the OSHA vaccination-or-testing rule. Citing “grave statutory and constitutional issues” with the rule, a three-judge panel issued the...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published a letter to State Survey Agency Directors describing revisions to Chapter 7 of the State Operations Manual (SOM) to reflect mandatory disciplinary...more
Directed Plans of Correction, or DPOCs, have long been part of the arsenal of enforcement sanctions available to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for survey deficiencies, just like civil money penalties (CMPs);...more