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Healthcare Regulatory Check-up Newsletter | April 2024 Recap

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This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for April 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including the Calendar Year (CY) 2025...more

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HHS-OIG Year in Review - 2022

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The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continues to offer valuable insights to the healthcare industry as to how best to approach increasingly complex healthcare fraud...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Advisory Opinion 22-08: OIG Declines to Impose Sanctions for Loaning of Smartphones for Receipt of Telehealth Services

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On April 27, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 22-08 (Advisory Opinion) in which it declined to impose sanctions against a federally qualified health center (Requestor) for an arrangement...more

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OIG Greenlights Digital Health Program Offering Free Smartphones to Patients

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Last week, the federal HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) gave the greenlight to allow a virtual care company and pharmaceutical manufacturer to loan patients free smartphones, so the patients (which include Medicare...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Healthcare Law Update: December 2018

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Regulation - OIG Issues Advisory Opinion Addressing Eligible Managed Care Organizations' Safe Harbor - On Oct. 11, 2018, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Healthcare Law Update: September 2018

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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

Ruder Ware

OIG Opinion on Donation of Telehealth Equipment

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A recent Advisory Opinion (Advisory Opinion 18-03) from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services addresses potential kickback issues involved in the donation of telehealth...more

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Advisory Opinion 18-03 Confirms OIG's Focus on Telehealth

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In prior articles regarding the OIG's Work Plan (July 2017 and November 2017) and its recent telehealth claim audit, we have noted how telehealth is clearly on the OIG's radar. Now, the first advisory opinion addressing...more

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OIG Posts Telemedicine Advisory Opinion

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The Office of Inspector General (OIG), Health and Human Services issued an Advisory Opinion allowing an arrangement proposed by a federally qualified health center look-alike (FQHC look-alike) to provide free technology items...more

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