Teva Charged With Paying Kickbacks to Increase Sales of MS Drug
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Teva Pharmaceuticals has joined a growing list of healthcare organizations alleged to have used charitable foundations to pay hundreds of ...
Read More OIG Offers Advisory Opinions on COVID-19-Related Arrangements, But …
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a unique set of circumstances for many healthcare providers. Delivering quality patient care, while ...
Read More OIG Rules Hospitals Can Sell Medical Debt Directly to Nonprofit Buyer
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Can health systems and large physician groups sell or donate their unpaid medical debt to a medical debt forgiveness company ...
Read More Pharmacists Push for Ability to Bill Under Medicare for COVID-19 Testing and Treatment
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
As demand for COVID-19 testing rises, so too does the time it takes to schedule a test and get back ...
Read More Feds Recover $2.6B in 2019
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The federal government recently announced it won or negotiated more than $2.6 billion in healthcare fraud adjustments and settlements during ...
Read More CMS: Audits to Return in August
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
After a five-month reprieve, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) says that as of Aug. 3, 2020 it ...
Read More COVID-19 Related Fraud Heating Up
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Five months into the COVID-19 pandemic and the number of enforcement actions against companies and individuals who have received COVID-19 ...
Read More Pharma Giant Novartis Settles FCA Claims
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Pharma giant Novartis has agreed to pay more than $642 million to resolve claims it violated the False Claims Act ...
Read More Telehealth Stakeholders Ask Congress to Help Ensure Technology’s Future
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
As we first wrote about in May, telehealth in the age of COVID-19 has been gaining a lot of traction. ...
Read More OIG Work Plan Updates Target COVID-19 Related Fraud
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) recently released an ambitious update to ...
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