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Physician Indicted for Medicaid Fraud and Invasive and Medically Unnecessary Testing

Med-Net Compliance

From January 2006 to August 2017, the physician allegedly gave? The post Physician Indicted for Medicaid Fraud and Invasive and Medically Unnecessary Testing appeared first on Med-Net.

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How HHS-OIG, Regulators Enforce Vendor Compliance

Provider Trust

What the HHS-OIG says about vendor compliance. Moon , for submitting claims while excluded from March 2006 through July 2013. However, healthcare receives federal funding, and thus OFAC is an additional sanction list that you should add to your vendor compliance plan/program. Case Study: S. Martino-Fleming v.

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Excluded Psychiatrist Results in Allegations of Violating the False Claims Act

Healthcare Compliance Blog

In 2006, the excluded psychiatrist was convicted in Florida of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. Additional information is available in the Med-Net Corporate Compliance and Ethics Manual, Chapter 1, Compliance and Ethics Program, CP 2.0 C – Screening and Evaluation of Associates.

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What is HIPAA?

HIPAA Journal

Title II: Preventing health care fraud and abuse; administration simplification; medical liability reform. The provisions related to administrative simplification are discussed below, while the provisions for medical liability reform (of which there are few) only relate to whistle blower protection for reporting fraud and abuse.

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Seventh Circuit Clarifies “Authoritative Guidance” for the False Claims Act

Hall Render

However, some of the defendant’s customers typically paid less than the retail price for their medications through several discount programs that the defendant offered between 2006 and 2015. This footnote originated as a footnote in a memorandum issued by CMS in October of 2006.

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Pretty Potent Mix In A Prescription Painkiller Preemption Decision

Drug & Device Law

Ohio is one of several states, with New Jersey being the most notable , with statutes precluding punitive damages in product liability cases based on FDA approval or compliance. 2006), aff’d by equally divided court , 552 U.S. Warner-Lambert & Co. , 3d 85, 98 (2d Cir. Wyeth-Ayerst Labs. , 3d 961, 965-66 (6th Cir.

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Guest Post – Michigan Product Liability Law:  Retroactivity of New Law and Primer

Drug & Device Law

2022) (recognizing the following product defect liability theories: “(1) negligent design of the product; (2) negligent manufacture of the product; (3) negligent failure to warn about some aspect of the product; (4) breach of express or implied warranty; or (5) misrepresentation or fraud”). Auto Owners Ins. 2d 277, 286 (Mich.

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