Court Rules Against United’s Offsetting Policy
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
UnitedHealth Group’s policy of withholding payments to out-of-network physicians and doctors in order to recover previous overpayments – a practice ...
Read More Government cracking down on drug company ties to charities
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Actelion Pharmaceuticals, a San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company, recently agreed to pay $360 million to resolve allegations it provided kickbacks to ...
Read More The Granston Memo One Year Later
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Last year, we wrote about an internal memo from the U.S. Department of Justice addressing the dismissal of qui tam ...
Read More How Artificial Intelligence is Detecting Healthcare Fraud
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Throughout 2018, we saw how the federal government cracked down on healthcare fraud using a variety of technological advances As ...
Read More Hospital Fails to Terminate Former Employee’s Access to HIPAA-Protected Data
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A recent HIPAA enforcement action should serve as a reminder to healthcare organizations of the need to terminate an employee’s ...
Read More Watchdog Report: Nearly $3B Recovered From Providers
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Fighting healthcare fraud remains among the priorities for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector ...
Read More Failure to Have Business Associates Agreement in Place Proves Costly
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A medical group practice based in Lakeland, Fla. must pay $500,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations and adopt a substantial ...
Read More Allergy Center’s HIPAA Fine Nothing to Sneeze at
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A Connecticut healthcare provider recently learned it’s better not to comment in public about a patient, even if that patient ...
Read More Medicare Improper Payments Fall to Lowest Level in Eight Years
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week that its efforts to reduce improper payments is working. ...
Read More Opioid Law Includes New Kickback Penalties for Drug Treatment Facilities/Labs
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Last month, President Trump signed into law a bill designed to address matters relating to opioid use and abuse. Dubbed ...
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