The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale

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Court Rules Against United’s Offsetting Policy

UnitedHealth Group’s policy of withholding payments to out-of-network physicians and doctors in order to recover previous overpayments – a practice ...
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Government cracking down on drug company ties to charities

Actelion Pharmaceuticals, a San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company, recently agreed to pay $360 million to resolve allegations it provided kickbacks to ...
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The Granston Memo One Year Later

Last year, we wrote about an internal memo from the U.S. Department of Justice addressing the dismissal of qui tam ...
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How Artificial Intelligence is Detecting Healthcare Fraud

Throughout 2018, we saw how the federal government cracked down on healthcare fraud using a variety of technological advances As ...
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Hospital Fails to Terminate Former Employee’s Access to HIPAA-Protected Data

A recent HIPAA enforcement action should serve as a reminder to healthcare organizations of the need to terminate an employee’s ...
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Watchdog Report: Nearly $3B Recovered From Providers

Fighting healthcare fraud remains among the priorities for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector ...
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Failure to Have Business Associates Agreement in Place Proves Costly

 A medical group practice based in Lakeland, Fla. must pay $500,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations and adopt a substantial ...
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Allergy Center’s HIPAA Fine Nothing to Sneeze at

A Connecticut healthcare provider recently learned it’s better not to comment in public about a patient, even if that patient ...
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Medicare Improper Payments Fall to Lowest Level in Eight Years

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week that its efforts to reduce improper payments is working. ...
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Opioid Law Includes New Kickback Penalties for Drug Treatment Facilities/Labs

Last month, President Trump signed into law a bill designed to address matters relating to opioid use and abuse. Dubbed ...
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