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Guide to a Proactive Healthcare Cybersecurity Stance

Healthcare IT Today

For a healthcare entity, the data and information are viewed as extremely valuable as it includes PII as well as other health information that can be used for insurance fraud and identity theft. Troy serves clients in a variety of industries including communications and media, technology, health care, and higher education.

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CMS Proposes Minimum Staffing Requirements and Enhanced Facility Assessments for Nursing Homes

C&M Health Law

Interestingly, both the proposed standard and the evaluated range of standards are below the standard that this same outside consultant recommended in 2001 of 4.1 HPRD, which is often cited in False Claims Act cases and enforcement actions by the Department of Justice and state Medicaid Fraud Control Units. HPRD consisted of 0.75

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

How did we get here? Nonprofit hospitals under growing scrutiny over how they justify billions in tax breaks States increase pressure on nonprofit hospitals as charity care scrutinized Senate proposal would give hospitals $385M for emergency preparedness.

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Stupid Expert Tricks Redux

Drug & Device Law

2001) (Kilburn); and Wade-Greaux v. I-Flow Corp. , 2d 1092, 1119-25 (D. 2010) (Matsen); Nelson v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. 1998 WL 1297690, at *4, 7-8 (W.D. 31, 1998), aff’d , 243 F.3d 3d 244 (6th Cir. Whitehall Laboratories, Inc. , 1441, 1559-62 (D.V.I. 1994), aff’d mem. , 3d 1120 (3d Cir. 1994) (Gilbert).

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Fallacious FDA Reporting Claim Finally Falls

Drug & Device Law

In 2001, the Supreme Court made getting past motions to dismiss harder when it held in Buckman that plaintiffs could not recover claims predicated on violations of FDA regulations. An unfortunate fiction developed post- Buckman —particularly after Riegel v.

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A Texas Mess

Drug & Device Law

Finally, while PREP Act preemption is the focus of today’s post, to the extent that the Texas Complaint can be read to allege – and we think it can – either: (1) direct fraud on the FDA or (2) that the FDA’s approvals (both emergency and/or final) of the defendant’s vaccine should not have been granted, Buckman Co.

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Dismissal of Experts-Turned-Plaintiffs’ FCA Case as Sanction Affirmed

Drug & Device Law

As discussed here , the primary allegations asserted the same sort of “fraud on the FDA” claim that, when brought as a common-law tort claim, were held preempted in Buckman Co. DePuy False Claims Act litigation was a particularly abusive misapplication of the FCA for legal reasons. Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S.

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