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Guide to a Proactive Healthcare Cybersecurity Stance

Healthcare IT Today

For a healthcare entity, the data and information are viewed as extremely valuable as it includes PII as well as other health information that can be used for insurance fraud and identity theft. Troy serves clients in a variety of industries including communications and media, technology, health care, and higher education.

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CMS Proposes Minimum Staffing Requirements and Enhanced Facility Assessments for Nursing Homes

C&M Health Law

Interestingly, both the proposed standard and the evaluated range of standards are below the standard that this same outside consultant recommended in 2001 of 4.1 HPRD, which is often cited in False Claims Act cases and enforcement actions by the Department of Justice and state Medicaid Fraud Control Units. HPRD consisted of 0.75

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Health Provider News

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nursing homes to pay $4M over claims of substandard care Mass. officials take aim at anti-abortion centers with new public awareness campaign Massachusetts, DC loosen CRNA supervision requirements Nursing home chain with 3 Central Mass.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

How did we get here? Nonprofit hospitals under growing scrutiny over how they justify billions in tax breaks States increase pressure on nonprofit hospitals as charity care scrutinized Senate proposal would give hospitals $385M for emergency preparedness.

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CPAP MDL Overinflates Plaintiffs’ Claims

Drug & Device Law

2001). “[A] federal court in a diversity case should be reluctant to expand state common law.” 341 (2001). Basically, CPAP II purported to do precisely what Buckman itself prohibited: using express preemption to limit the “ordinary working” of implied preemption of fraud on the FDA claims. 2001), aff’d , 358 F.3d

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Another RICOdiculous Decision

Drug & Device Law

What’s worse, the fraud on the FDA claim, if brought under state law, would be preempted by Buckman Co. 341 (2001). Fourth, similar factual problems were shoved under the rug with respect to the purported “pattern of racketeering activity” – allegations of “mail fraud and wire fraud.” Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S.

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Another Reason Why The FDA, Not Litigants, Approves Products

Drug & Device Law

Last week these concerns were graphically confirmed when two of the “purportedly contrary studies” mentioned by the FDA, and relied upon six times by the District Court in its unprecedented opinion, were withdrawn by the academic journal in which they were published − for apparently pervasive academic fraud. Longbons T., Harrison D.J.,

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