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New Year: New Prescribing Laws Take Effect

Two new prescribing laws took effect this month that physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners should be familiar with. Effective ...
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DEA Reverses Stand on Renewal Notices

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently announced important changes to its registration renewal process. Effective Jan. 1, the DEA will ...
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OIG’s New Safe Harbors, Civil Monetary Penalty Exceptions Set to Take Effect

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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