Appeals Court Issues Precedential Ruling in Charitable Assistance Organization Kickback Case
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The increase in enforcement activity related to donations made by pharmaceutical manufacturers to nonprofit patient charitable assistance organizations has resulted ...
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Judge: Third Try Won’t be the Charm for Whistleblower
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A U.S. District Court Judge earlier this month tossed a whistleblower lawsuit filed against a Florida compounding pharmacy finding that ...
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OIG Notifies Pharmaceutical Companies They Can Provide Free Medication to Those Losing Charitable Assistance
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
In late November, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General revoked an Advisory Opinion ...
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OIG WorkPlan Update for December Includes Six New Initiatives
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The HHS Office of the Inspector General continues to update its Work Plan each month and ended the year in ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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