HIPAA Enforcement tops $28M in 2018
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
If it seems as if HIPAA violations were in the news more often than ever last year, that may be ...
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Groundbreaking Rules for Electronic Health Records Proposed
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proposing new rules that could pave the way for increased exchange ...
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HHS Proposes Changes to Drug Rebate Safe Harbors
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has issued a proposed rule that would amend the safe harbor ...
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Lab to Pay $63.5M to Settle Kickback Allegations
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Inform Diagnostics, an Irving, Texas-based pathology laboratory company, has agreed to pay $63.5 million to settle allegations that it violated ...
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OIG: Pediatric Clinic Can Provide Routine Cost-Sharing Waivers
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A pediatric clinic that provides medical, psychiatric and dental care to low-income children can waive cost-sharing amounts for patients in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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