OIG Takes Notice as Compound Drug Use Skyrockets
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The cost of compounded topical drugs to the country’s Medicare program has skyrocketed over the past several years, and that’s ...
Read More CMS to Ease HHA, Ambulance Enrollment Restrictions
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will ease restrictions it imposed on the enrollment of new home health ...
Read More Hospital Offering Patient Discounts not Entitled to Full Reimbursement by Insurer
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Cigna Healthcare emerged victorious from a lawsuit filed by a Houston hospital that had accused it of underpaying claims to ...
Read More CMS Proposes Payment Changes for Medicare HHAs for 2019
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is soliciting comments on a proposed rule that will impact payment and ...
Read More Medical Device Maker Settles False Claims Allegations, Agrees to Pay $12.5M
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A New York-based medical device manufacturer has agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle allegations it caused healthcare providers to ...
Read More CMS Proposes Sweeping Changes to Restore Doctor-Patient Relationship
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Talk to any healthcare provider and one of the things you likely will hear is that they spend too much ...
Read More Sen. Rubio to Introduce Bill to Crackdown on Florida Shuffle
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Have you heard of the Florida Shuffle? It’s not a new dance step, it’s what they call it when substance ...
Read More Common Healthcare Fraud Schemes
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Last month’s indictment of more than 600 people nationwide in what the feds dubbed “the largest healthcare fraud takedown in ...
Read More HIPAA Violation Results in $4.3M Fine for Cancer Center
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
If you haven’t taken stringent measures to protect patient privacy, this recent ruling from a U.S. Department of Health and ...
Read More Doctors, Nurses, Other Healthcare Pros Rounded up in Opioid and Medicare Fraud Sweep
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Doctors, nurses, addiction treatment professionals, pharmacists and hundreds of others are among the 601 people across 58 federal districts charged ...
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