Court Reverses itself (in Part) in Laboratory Testing Case
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A federal court judge in the District of Columbia has reversed his previous ruling that found Boston Heart Diagnostics Corp. ...
Read More What You Should Know About OCR's HIPAA Privacy Audits
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Have you received a request from HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) asking that you provide the name of your ...
Read More Healthcare Professionals a Big Part of the #MeToo Movement
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
By now you undoubtedly have read or heard stories about sexual harassment taking place in Hollywood, Washington and the workplace ...
Read More OIG Revokes Advisory Opinion on Patient-assistance Charity
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
In what is being called a first-of-its-kind move, the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and ...
Read More When Social Media and Patient Privacy Collide
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Earlier this month, three employees of an assisted living facility in Glendale, Arizona were let go after allegedly videotaping patients ...
Read More HHS Takes Another Shot at Reducing Medicare Appeals Backlog
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
In an effort to clear the ever-growing Medicare appeals backlog, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has announced ...
Read More HHS Offers New HIPAA Guidance in Light of Opioid Crisis
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Shortly after President Donald Trump declared a nationwide public health emergency to combat the opioid crisis, the HHS Office for ...
Read More Feds Continue to Root Out Hospice Fraud
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Chemed Corp., the parent company of VITAS Healthcare Corp., agreed to ...
Read More October a Big Month for Anti-Kickback Cases Involving Compounding Pharmacies
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Physicians, recruiters and pharmacy owners continue to be the target of ongoing investigations into fraudulent claims involving compounded medications. A ...
Read More Failure to Repay Can Result in FCA Case
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
There’s nothing wrong with holding on to money for as long as you can before giving it back, is there? ...
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