Health Law RX

JUNE 2, 2023

The Court’s Supervalu Decision Supervalu involved two combined FCA cases, both brought against supermarkets (Supervalu and Safeway) that house internal pharmacies and that participate with Medicare and Medicaid. [6] per 30-day supply). [9] per 30-day supply). [10] 12] The Court unanimously disagreed. per 30-day supply). [9] SuperValu Inc. ,

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I started the Health Populi blog in September 2007 with a post titled “Health Care is the #1 Line Item in Our National Economy… and Taking More Out of Your Pocket,” displaying this sign from Tom’s Shell gas station comparing the price of gas to an “Arm, Leg, or your First Born” posted on their sign in 2007.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

Here is the first “good news” line chart, showing declining medical trend from 2007 to next year in 2019. That’s one-half the high point at nearly 12% in 2007. As with public sector healthcare spending (“entitlements” in the form of Medicare and Medicaid), healthcare spending crowds out U.S.

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The Health Law Firm

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The providers were accused of defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE by performing unnecessary and improperly supervised procedures from 2007 until 2011. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law A group of Florida radiation oncology service providers settled a whistleblower or qui tam lawsuit for $3.5

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The Health Law Firm

OCTOBER 9, 2012

In September 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made the decision to allow Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) to begin reviewing the billing codes for office visits for healthcare providers. By George F. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law. Connolly, Inc.,

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 14, 2023

2] Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Spotlight: Physician-Owned Hospital Expansion Exception Requests – Changes Effective October 1, 2023 , available at [link] (last accessed August 2, 2023). [3] 5, 2007) (emphasis added). [5] 2, 2023). [2] 2, 2023). [4] 2, 2023). [2] 2, 2023). [4] 51011, 51019 (Sept. at 51020. [6]

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Hall Render

JUNE 7, 2023

This practice implicated the pharmacies’ contracts with Pharmacy Benefit Managers (“PBMs”) as well as Medicaid and other federal health care programs. 47 (2007), the U.S. 47, 70 (2007). [10] 8] In Safeco Insurance Company of America v. Burr , 551 U.S. Safeway, Inc.). [2] at *6-7 [3] Id. [4] 4] 31 U.S.C. 3729(b)(1)(A). [6]

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

When UMH-West moved to its current location in 2007, downtown Grand Rapids was already home to the “Medical Mile,” a cluster of large providers and medical schools. Fourteen percent receive Medicaid benefits. These facilities are close to the metropolitan area’s main highways, easily accessible by car.

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Medisys Compliance

JULY 29, 2022

As per CMS-Ruling 1536-R, effective for services on and after January 22, 2007, Medicare will allow beneficiaries to pay additional charges (which are non-covered by Medicare as these additional charges are not part of a Medicare benefit category) for insertion of an astigmatism correcting intraocular lens (AC-IOL).

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

10:191, Children’s Partial Care Programs, by the Department in 2007; and N.J.A.C. 1846(a), the Department of Human Services, Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services published a notice of readoption of New Jersey Care … Special Medicaid Programs Manual. 10:69, AFDC-Related Medicaid, or 10:71, Medicaid Only.

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Pharmacy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In the 2016 Supreme Court decision, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, voted to overturn the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision that the government could freeze Luis’ “innocent” assets as well as the ones directly traceable to the Medicaid fraud funds. Let’s see.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2021

A recent “House Calls” memo and podcast from two company analysts detailed the state of Medicaid, Motherhood and America’s Future: Giving Birth to Better Maternity Outcomes. ” They lay out the crisis as follows: Medicaid funds nearly one-half of births in the U.S.

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Hall Render

APRIL 6, 2022

Third and finally, the relator pointed out that around the same time that CMS issued its 2006 Manual and memorandum, many state-run Medicaid plans adopted CMS’s definition of “usual and customary” pricing. SuperValu Inc., held that the scienter requirement articulated by the Supreme Court of the United States in Safeco Ins. of America v.

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Verisys

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In July 1993, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) undertook a project to develop a healthcare provider identification system to meet the needs of the Medicare and Medicaid programs and the needs of a national identification system for all providers. When Did NPI Numbers Begin? The NPI Final Rule, published on Jan.

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Innovaare Compliance

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Annually, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) releases star ratings, which measure the quality of care health plans deliver for its members. Launched in 2007, star ratings enable the CMS as well as consumers to compare health plans on metrics other than cost. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. References.

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Hall Render

MARCH 30, 2023

and 5%, the highest since September 2007. California Governor Gavin Newsom has asked President Joe Biden to authorize a program called “transitional rent,” which would provide up to six months of rent or temporary housing for low-income enrollees in California’s state Medicaid program.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs. recorded in 1990-2007. is expected to grow by 5.7%

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This definition of scientific uncertainty — one inextricably linked to constitutional conflict and political polarization — shaped litigation at the Supreme Court, which upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in 2007. The Court in Gonzales v.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

First, the decision resolved a previous split between the Fifth Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit; the latter of which ruled, in 2007, that emotional distress damages are available under the Rehab Act. [1] The Supreme Court communicated its intent to limit enforcement in several ways. But what constitutes “traditional” contract damages?

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession. There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 29, 2022

They also called for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, to revive a foundering audit program that is more than a decade behind in recouping billions in suspected overpayments to the health plans, which are run mostly by private insurance companies.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

142 (2007), mere regulation of the product or conduct at issue—the medical walker is a non-prescription, Class I medical device with general controls only—is not a basis for removal under this statute. Instead, the UHC entities removed based on the Federal Officer Removal Statute (“FORS”). Since the Supreme Court decision in Watson v.

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