The Health Law Firm

JANUARY 13, 2014

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to exclude providers from Medicare if the government determines a pattern of abusive prescribing practices of Medicare Part D drugs. CMS described these efforts on January 6, 2014, in a proposed rule.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The case asks whether the government has authority to dismiss an FCA suit after initially declining to proceed with the action, and if so, what standard would apply. Petitioner-Relator Polansky is a doctor and former consultant for Executive Health Resources (EHR), a company that submits claims to Medicare on behalf of health care providers.

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 22, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 11, 2016, a federal appeals court stated that a bankruptcy judge did not have the authority to block government health officials from cutting off Medicare and Medicaid payments to a Florida nursing home that was alleged to have violated patient-care regulations. Indest III, J.D.,

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

The government alleged that, between April 2014 and April 2019, Jet Medical introduced devices into interstate commerce that were misbranded under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) because Jet Medical did not obtain approval or clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prior to distribution.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 16, 2022

In a March 11, 2022, release by the Northern District of Georgia’s Office of the Department of Justice, it was reported that an investigation determined a Georgia nursing home knowingly submitted claims for unreasonable, unnecessary, and unskilled services for Medicare patients. This amount was based on the nursing home’s ability to pay.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 20, 2022

A federal jury convicted a New York ENT doctor for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by causing the submission of false and fraudulent claims for surgical procedures that were not performed. Specifically, between January 2014 and February 2018, the doctor billed Medicare and Medicaid approximately $585,000 and was paid approximately $191,000.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This is the second largest annual total in False Claims Act history, and the largest since 2014. Congress strengthened the False Claims Act by increasing incentives for whistleblowers to file lawsuits alleging false claims on behalf of the government. More than $5.6 Total recovery now totals more than $70 billion.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

At the time of the signing of HITECH, Medicare and healthcare costs were seen as a key driver of America’s long-term deficit spending at this low point in the national economy. Some historical perspective is useful for context. Beyond the local economic effects, think about the larger region or State.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 16, 2024

Because Medicaid is jointly funded by state and federal governments, there’s no standard approach to prioritizing or implementing technology reimbursement. About Anish Sebastian Anish Sebastian co-founded Babyscripts in 2014 with the vision that internet-enabled medical devices and big data would transform the delivery of pregnancy care.

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Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

billion, FY 2021 marks DOJ’s largest annual total FCA recovery since FY 2014, and more than twice the $2.3 According to DOJ’s statistics, the government paid out $238 million to relators in FY 2021, the lowest number since FY 2008. With collections amounting to $5.6 billion received in FY 2020.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

On April 29, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), issued the final rule on Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs (the “Final Rule”). With a few exceptions, the Final Rule is a wholesale codification of the proposed rule.

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Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 16, 2022

The co-defendants allegedly engaged in these acts in whole or in part, to avoid government sanctions, including a denial of payments for new admissions, additional monitoring, the imposition of civil monetary penalties, and other potential penalties.

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Verisys

MARCH 23, 2023

This is the largest amount recovered under the False Claims Act since 2014. Abuse of government healthcare programs is a federal offense with severe penalties. government or a government contractor. The Most Common False Claims The FCA primarily combats healthcare fraud and abuse associated with Medicare and Medicaid.

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

” The currently proposed provision has similar effect to the language CMS proposed in 2012 and, after consideration of comments, ultimately rejected in the 2014 Final Rule (Medicare Advantage and Part D) and 2016 Final Rule (Medicare Part A and Part B). ” United States ex rel. Healthfirst, Inc. , 3d 370, 389 (S.D.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimated that for payment year 2018 alone , it will recover $428.4 To address these concerns and other matters, CMS announced significant regulatory changes to the Medicare Advantage (MA) program beginning in 2024. million (net) and $4.7

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid. billion in 2014. Data, Fragmentation, and the Power for Good. Data, especially in an increasingly personalized healthcare system, is inevitably siloed.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Morgan Healthcare Conference, you would know that all three are waiting to see what the upcoming final rule on Medicare Advantage risk adjustment data validation (known as RADV) audits will mean for the industry when it drops in February. (Trying really hard not to start off with a “three health plans walk into a bar” joke…). to perhaps a 2.3

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Provider Trust

JULY 26, 2022

District Attorney alleges that Pickering was hired in 2019 as a licensed physician’s assistant at a family practice in Norcross, Georgia but had not been a licensed physician’s assistant in Georgia, or any state, since March 2014. According to the U.S. The Importance of Conducting License Verification and Monitoring.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I had asked some years ago, “what is a pharmacy” anymore, when CVS Pharmacy dropped tobacco from its SKUs and aisles in February 2014, rebranding as CVS Health; and, when Amazon purchased PillPack in June 2018. ” Dr. Cosgrove based that sobering forecast due to changes in the U.S.

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Immunization information systems (IIS) have received special focus as part of government health initiatives (Meaningful Use 1 and 2), so every state has one or more: More accurate information about the number of distinct IIS in the US: [link] — Lisa Bari (she/her/hers) (@lisabari) November 17, 2020. The government thought the same.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whistleblowers continue to be one of the federal government’s greatest assets in FCA cases, as whistleblowers filed 652 qui tam suits in 2022 with recovery totaling $1.9 The government initiated 296 FCA cases on its own last year without input of a relator, which is the highest volume of DOJ initiated cases since the 1986 FCA amendments.

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Bill of Health

JULY 15, 2022

The selections feature topics ranging from a discussion of potential pathways to enable government patent use before nonpatent exclusivities expire, to an examination of medical oncologists who receive more than $100,000 annually from pharmaceutical companies, to an analysis of the launch prices of new drugs from 2008-2021. JAMA Intern Med.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Before that she served as director of the State Innovation Models Initiative at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Before that, he spent 17 years as CEO of HealthPartners, a cooperatively governed health plan and care system in Minnesota. Isaiah Nathaniel. CIO, Delaware Valley Community Health. Philadelphia.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 10, 2023

5] But that Interstate Commerce Clause needs to be viewed also in balance with the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, which reserves to the states any powers not delegated to the federal government. 12] FDA Draft Guidance, “Framework for Regulatory Oversight of Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs)” (October 2014), available at [link]. [13]

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

in repairs Sutter Health faces possible $519M payout in alleged double billing case COLORADO Denver Health sued by sons after father’s jail death How a Kaiser Permanente worker strike could affect Colorado patients Kaiser names regional president Medical Office Building in Littleton Sells for $6.1M

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Bill of Health

MAY 22, 2023

The selections feature topics ranging from an analysis of government and industry investments for recently approved drugs, to a discussion of court decisions on mifepristone, and an examination of the added therapeutic benefit associated with the top-selling brand-name drugs in Medicare. Cliff ERS, Kesselheim AS, Rome BN, Feldman WB.

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Kaiser Health News

DECEMBER 10, 2021

None of the eight states with the most rural hospital closures since 2014, when Medicaid expansion was first implemented through the Affordable Care Act, had chosen to expand the insurance program by the start of 2021. In several of those states, including Georgia, Republican-led governments have said such a step would be too costly.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 13, 2024

Medicare and Medicaid similarly can’t deny coverage based on health background, though age and income-based eligibility requirements mean many Americans don’t qualify for that coverage. .” Depending on the definition, the number could be smaller, but it also could be even greater and is likely to have increased since 2014.

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