New Year: New Prescribing Laws Take Effect
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Two new prescribing laws took effect this month that physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners should be familiar with. Effective ...
Read More DEA Reverses Stand on Renewal Notices
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently announced important changes to its registration renewal process. Effective Jan. 1, the DEA will ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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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