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In mid-March 2018, five New York City doctors were arrested and charged with accepting bribes and kickbacks from Insys…

Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a two-day hearing entitled “Combating the Opioid Crisis:…

As physician practices consider joining an alternative payment model (APM), Medical Economics published an interesting list of…

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and its twenty-four Member Boards have launched a major initiative, "Continuing…

The Joint Commission recently released a report to help hospitals better understand and comply with new pain assessment and…

Novo Nordisk will pay roughly $58.7 million to resolve claims that the company’s sales force downplayed the importance of mandated…

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) responded to a request for information (RFI) issued by the Office of the…

We have seen many large False Claims and Anti Kickback settlements with pharmaceutical companies and the prescriptions…

On January 12, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced publicly that Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (Zimmer…

We have written for years about the transition in health care from volume-based to value-based payment models. But the process has…