Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Lowest Total Recoveries Since 2008 Record-Shattering Number of New Cases Filed Health Care and Life Sciences Cases Continue to Dominate On February 7, 2023, the U.S. billion was recovered in qui tam cases in which the government declined to intervene. 1] While total recoveries exceeded $2.2 Last year, $1.2 1] [link]. [2] 1] [link]. [2]

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) temporarily approved certain telehealth flexibilities during the PHE. The Ryan Haight Act of 2008 generally requires a prescribing practitioner to have conducted at least one in-person medical evaluation of a patient prior to prescribing controlled substances via telehealth.

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Verisys

DECEMBER 22, 2021

. – Donald Potts has helped healthcare customers define business problems and design innovative solutions since he started at Optum in 2008. As a product manager at the healthcare technology and services company Verisys , he guides many of the solutions that support health plans, health systems, and state Medicare and Medicaid agencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

Norden is particularly passionate about funding companies focused on the Medicaid population – a traditionally tricky and often ignored area. Fortunately, government, investors and startups are working together to close some of these care gaps. Worse yet, COVID-19 has exacerbated mental and behavioral health issues.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Consider, for example, the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Program (SLFRF) — enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan Act — which provided $350 billion in flexible aid to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. Consider that between 2008 and 2020, U.S. public health expenditures fell by 30 percent.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

State governments are also roped in thanks to their Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). History of EPCS Kyle Zebley, head of public policy American Telemedicine Association (ATA) , says that Congress called on the DEA to implement a policy for a special controlled substance registration process in 2008.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 5, 2022

However, as a board-certified physician in addiction medicine and chief medical officer of a nationwide addiction medicine practice, waiting on government funding was not an option as we treated patients struggling with opioid use disorder (OUD) during the COVID pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

Medicaid systems are struggling as potential expansion looms Clearly, many state unemployment information systems are in dire need of upgrades. For Medicaid, the threat comes as potential expansion looms. Some of today’s Medicaid systems may collapse under the weight of such data and analytics requirements.

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