OIG’s New Safe Harbors, Civil Monetary Penalty Exceptions Set to Take Effect
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
On January 6, new safe harbors to the federal anti-kickback statute and amendments to the civil monetary penalty rules will ...
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Judge Orders HHS to Clear Medicare Claims Appeal Backlog by 2020
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Four years, that’s how long a federal judge has given the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to clear ...
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OIG Says Free Labeling of Test Tubes, Collection Containers Could Violate Anti-Kickback Laws
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued an advisory opinion suggesting that a laboratory’s proposal to label test tubes ...
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Feds weigh in on competitive benefits of telemedicine
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
As telemedicine continues to grow in use and popularity, federal agencies are increasingly being asked to consider how it will ...
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CMS: Ignorance not an excuse when it comes to liability
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a policy change that provides additional conditions for determining when ...
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OIG’s Far-reaching 2017 Work Plan Designed to Root Out Fraud and Abuse
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released its work plan for ...
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CMS offers plan (again) in hopes of clearing Medicare appeals backlog
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Hospital executives who are tired of waiting for their Medicare appeals cases to be settled are being presented with an ...
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Home Healthcare Agencies to Realize $130M in Medicare Reimbursement Cuts in 2017
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Home healthcare agencies can expect to see a 0.7 percent drop in Medicare reimbursements next year, according to the Centers ...
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Long-awaited rule for Quality Payment Program unveiled
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently issued its long-awaited final rule on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) ...
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OIG report finds claims filed on behalf of the dead
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
With Halloween just around the corner the HHS' Office of the Inspector General just released a report showing that during ...
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