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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Missing COI Program, Fabricated Outreach, Job, Health Records: The Many Types of Falsehoods

Report on Research Compliance 21, no. 9 (September, 2024) - How many types of falsehoods might sully applications for research funds and the studies they support? Unfortunately, the most recent semiannual report to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In This Month’s E-News: March 2024

The Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR) are among a handful of groups “urging the Biden administration to rescind a policy proposal that would threaten the American...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hospital Settles CMP Case Over Free APPs; 'Bona Fide' Use Shouldn't Inspire Fear, Lawyer Says

In a case that may hit a raw compliance nerve, Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital in Michigan has agreed to pay $100,000 in a settlement with the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) over free services provided to certain...more

Harris Beach PLLC

HHS Office of Inspector General October 2023 Enforcement Activity

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The following is a summary of selected federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

DOJ: Stanford FCA Case Involved Failures to Disclose Foreign Support From Seven Countries

Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 11 (November, 2023) It wasn't just China. China is among the countries whose support for Stanford University investigators wasn’t reported to five federal research funding agencies,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | April 2023 Recap

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for April 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions related to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 25. News Briefs: July 2020

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 25 (July 13, 2020)  -  Ophthalmic Consultants PA in Sarasota, Florida, agreed to pay $4.8 million to settle false claims allegations that it billed Medicare and other federal payers...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 20. News Briefs: June 2020

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 20 (June 1, 2020) - The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has unveiled its “OIG Strategic Plan: Oversight of COVID-19 Response and Recovery.” Its goals are protecting people, funds...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 7. News Briefs: February 2020 #4

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 7 (February 24, 2020) -  Guardian Elder Care Holdings Inc., which operates more than 50 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, and its related...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 4. News Briefs: February 2020

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 4 (February 3, 2020) - ? Central Coast Inpatient Consultants Inc. in California has agreed to pay $750,000 in a civil monetary penalty settlement with the HHS Office of Inspector...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

After $5.5M FCA Settlement, Institutions Face Bigger Risks for Mishandling Foreign Support

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 2 (January 23, 2020) - Acting with “deliberate ignorance” and “reckless disregard” are not words that any institution wants to hear associated with its name. But these are at the heart...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 2. News Briefs: January 2020 #2

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 2 (January 20, 2020) - - The HHS Office of Inspector General has updated its Work Plan, which includes an item on early discharges from inpatient rehabilitation facilities to home...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 28, Number 44. News Briefs: December 2019

Report on Medicare Compliance 28, no. 44 (December 16, 2019) - ? Korunda Medical LLC, a Florida-based company that provides primary care and interventional pain management, has agreed to pay $85,000 to settle a potential...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance, News Briefs: November 2019

Report on Medicare Compliance 28, no. 36 (Oct. 14, 2019). - NIH should “update its guidance on vetting peer reviewer nominees to identify potential foreign threats to research integrity” and “develop a risk-based approach...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Health Care Investigation Trends: Corporate Integrity Agreements No Longer a Given

2017 was slightly above average for new corporate integrity agreements (CIAs), with 46 entered into by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) and companies and individuals...more

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