Hall Render

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals refused the defendants’ request to overturn the entire verdict but enforced the consequences of the government’s prejudicial delay by tying the conduct together with the government’s failure to toll the statute of limitations for many of its claims. The ruling in U.S. Aldridge v. Corporate Mgmt.,

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday. Tell us what you think.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Widespread international health emergencies, and particularly pandemics, can lead to a major imbalance of negotiating power between manufacturers and governments. Governments may face difficult policy decisions in their attempts to expeditiously control the spread of disease. Government, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Child, youth and family agencies, re-entry programs from prisons, and many other nonprofits, government, and tribal agencies. Reports provided by Casebook Louis says that their workflow tools and data model is based on millions of pages of government regulations related to social services data. And who offers these services?

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 28, 2022

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) establish a feedback mechanism to improve the effectiveness of its data breach reporting process.

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MedTrainer

MARCH 28, 2024

Regardless of the size of a healthcare organization, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recommends identifying a compliance contact who is responsible for ensuring that compliance activities are completed. Law by law, regulations were added, increasing the complexity of maintaining compliance for healthcare organizations.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whistleblowers continue to be one of the federal government’s greatest assets in FCA cases, as whistleblowers filed 652 qui tam suits in 2022 with recovery totaling $1.9 The government initiated 296 FCA cases on its own last year without input of a relator, which is the highest volume of DOJ initiated cases since the 1986 FCA amendments.

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