CME Rockpointe and a Coalition of Associations Launches CME Webinar Series… Thomas Sullivan Nov 14, 2020 0 As COVID-19 reemerges across the country, the need for innovative measures to provide high-quality patient care has become more…
CMS Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) Calls for Hospitals to Report… Thomas Sullivan Nov 13, 2020 0 Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) filed the Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) Final Rule…
Anti Kickback Cancer Researcher Sentenced to One Year, One Day for Government Fund Theft Thomas Sullivan Nov 12, 2020 0 On October 6, 2020, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York announced a prison sentence in the case of…
Anti Kickback Wheeling Hospital Agrees to Pay $50 Million to Settle Stark Law, AKS… Thomas Sullivan Nov 11, 2020 0 Earlier this year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Wheeling Hospital, Inc. agreed to pay $50 million to resolve…
Anti Kickback Pennsylvania Medical Assistant Pleads Guilty to Involvement in Kickback… Thomas Sullivan Nov 10, 2020 0 On October 20, 2020, Shanelyn Kennedy, a medical assistant from Scranton, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to one count of conspiring to…
Anti Kickback Merit Medical to Pay $18 Million Over False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback… Thomas Sullivan Nov 9, 2020 0 In mid-October 2020, Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (MMSI) agreed to pay $18 million to resolve allegations that the company violated…
Drug Prices Trump Administration Finalizes Drug Importation Rule Thomas Sullivan Nov 6, 2020 0 Earlier this year, the Trump Administration released a final rule focused on allowing states and others to establish programs to…
DOJ Gilead Settles False Claims Act Allegations for $97 Million Thomas Sullivan Nov 5, 2020 0 Recently, Gilead Sciences, Inc. reached a settlement agreement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve…
Anti Kickback Mallinckrodt’s $275 Million in Settlements Results in Filing for Bankruptcy Thomas Sullivan Nov 4, 2020 0 Violations of healthcare fraud and abuse laws are under much scrutiny and not taken lightly by the government. In recent years,…
COVID-19 HHS Phase 3 Health Care Provider Relief Fund Currently Open Thomas Sullivan Nov 3, 2020 0 Beginning October 5, 2020, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and…