Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

billion, FY 2021 marks DOJ’s largest annual total FCA recovery since FY 2014, and more than twice the $2.3 According to DOJ’s statistics, the government paid out $238 million to relators in FY 2021, the lowest number since FY 2008. With collections amounting to $5.6 billion received in FY 2020.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 14, 2024

From Minister to Advocate Dr. Brookman-Amissah returned to Ipas in 2001, where she served as Vice President for Africa until 2014. She then served as Ghana’s Minister of Health from 1996 to 1998 and as Ghana’s Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1998 to 2001.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 16, 2022

Affected individuals have been offered a one-year complimentary membership to Experian’s identity theft restoration and credit monitoring service. Lee County Emergency Medical Services Notifies Patients About Third-Party Data Breach. Lee County Emergency Medical Services said around 2% of the records provided to SGR were compromised.

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Verisys

MARCH 23, 2023

This is the largest amount recovered under the False Claims Act since 2014. Abuse of government healthcare programs is a federal offense with severe penalties. government or a government contractor. These referrals include any service or item payable by a government healthcare program.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This is the second largest annual total in False Claims Act history, and the largest since 2014. Congress strengthened the False Claims Act by increasing incentives for whistleblowers to file lawsuits alleging false claims on behalf of the government. More than $5.6 Total recovery now totals more than $70 billion.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2021

What You Should Know: – Unite Us , a New York City-based company connecting health and social care services, today announced the acquisition of Carrot Health , an action-oriented health analytics company focused on removing barriers to health and optimizing care. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 8, 2022

Emotet was first detected in 2014 and was initially a banking Trojan; however, the malware has been updated over the years and has had new features added. Emotet has been used to deliver a range of malware variants including IcedID, Trickbot, Qbot, Azorult, and ransomware payloads such as Ryuk and BitPaymer.

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McGuire Wood

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This guidance outlines the FDA’s recommendations on improving the cybersecurity safety and effectiveness of medical devices in the premarket phase, replacing its 2014 “Content of Premarket Submissions for Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices” guidance.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

In 2014 I was involved in an accident that fractured my neck and injured my spinal cord. He wanted to work with patients who needed a certain surgical intervention and ideally had non-government health insurance. What products/services do you provide for the healthcare industry and what is unique about them?

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Over the last decade, private equity firms have invested nearly $1 trillion in approximately 8,000 healthcare deals, encompassing a wide spectrum of medical services, from fertility clinics to neonatal care, primary care to cardiology, hospices, and everything in between. The consequence?

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Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 16, 2022

The co-defendants allegedly engaged in these acts in whole or in part, to avoid government sanctions, including a denial of payments for new admissions, additional monitoring, the imposition of civil monetary penalties, and other potential penalties.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The group has been active since at least 2012 and has a history of targeting the healthcare sector, as well as education, high-tech, media, retail, software, pharma, telecoms, video games, travel services, and virtual currencies, with companies in the United States frequently targeted.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The implementation of remote healthcare — telehealth services — reformed medicine. Not only did the pandemic accelerate the implementation of telemedicine, but remote health services became a necessity. According to CRICO’s national CBS Database, 66% of malpractice cases in telemedicine from 2014 to 2018 were connected to misdiagnosis.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Very few people trust that social media companies, internet service providers, search engines (like Google), the government, and device manufacturers (Apple, Fitbit, for example) will provide the “best protection” of peoples’ personal data.

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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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimated that for payment year 2018 alone , it will recover $428.4 Certainly, implementing prospective programs takes time, operating discipline, and analytical prowess, but it can yield improved outcomes as well as reduce downside risk from government audits. million (net) and $4.7

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. Before that she served as director of the State Innovation Models Initiative at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 22, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 11, 2016, a federal appeals court stated that a bankruptcy judge did not have the authority to block government health officials from cutting off Medicare and Medicaid payments to a Florida nursing home that was alleged to have violated patient-care regulations. Indest III, J.D.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Another lens on “who’s trusted” in terms of information sources finds once again that journalists and governments are not go-to touch points for “facts.” But consumers’ trust with other industries, especially finance, energy and telecomms, grew in the past year. ” Who is trusted?

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Provider Trust

JULY 26, 2022

District Attorney alleges that Pickering was hired in 2019 as a licensed physician’s assistant at a family practice in Norcross, Georgia but had not been a licensed physician’s assistant in Georgia, or any state, since March 2014. According to the U.S. The Importance of Conducting License Verification and Monitoring. Donna Thiel.

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The Health Law Firm

JANUARY 13, 2014

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to exclude providers from Medicare if the government determines a pattern of abusive prescribing practices of Medicare Part D drugs. CMS described these efforts on January 6, 2014, in a proposed rule. Smith, R.R.T.,

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Healthcare providers, facilities, and organizations in Florida must know how to navigate the regulatory landscape to provide efficient and ethical healthcare services while steering clear of legal and financial pitfalls. Florida’s rule stands out because it applies to all patient data, no matter how the healthcare services are paid for.

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

If this proposed rule is finalized, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) should be applying the same intent standard to their evaluation of potential reverse false claims and Civil Monetary Penalty liability. 3729(b)(1)(A). ” United States ex rel. 3d 370, 389 (S.D.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Yet, teens with the diagnosis receive healthcare transition services, including speech therapy, half as often as those with other special needs. Focusing on SDoH stressors rapidly changed hospital services to manage the transition from the patient to the outpatient setting. The federal government is working to improve access.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2021

” A top priority for these consumers is health and safety, along with service and personal care, ease and convenience, product origin, and trust and reputation. Furthermore, 7 in 10 of the Reimagined folks think companies are just as responsible as governments for the health of societies. These folks are the “Reimagined.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The second drawing illustrates the fact that health care service patterns have not returned to their pre-pandemic levels. Aside from care for COVID-19, volumes are down except for services related to mental and behavioral health (with rates of mental health prescribing increasing for antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs). That was 2.7

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

"Our efforts are led by the Institute for Precision Medicine, which was established in 2014 in collaboration with our academic research partner, the University of Pittsburgh." "As AI becomes more ubiquitous, researchers, clinicians, health systems, industry, government and others must be wary of unintended consequences."

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Compliancy Group

AUGUST 3, 2022

Customers of Aksoy’s fraudulent and counterfeit devices included hospitals, schools, government agencies, and the military.”. Cisco also caught on to the scheme, sending seven cease and desist letters to Aksoy from 2014 – 2020. Through customer complaints, both Amazon and eBay shut down his online stores.

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The Health Law Firm

APRIL 21, 2014

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law For years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) kept private its records on Medicare reimbursement payments made to physicians, however, on April 9, 2014, that all changed. Indest III, J.D.,

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Even so, the organization is currently in the process of expanding beyond traditional correctional settings, recently beginning to provide child psychiatric services, mental health treatment, and substance use services to the general population. The company was formed by combining Trinity Services Group, which H.I.G.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 20, 2022

The breaches affected federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government organizations as well as private industry organizations in the medical, legal, telecommunications, finance, and energy fields around the world. . In 2014 Kiteworks was launched as a successor to FTA.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

The line chart come from a new study into Multimorbidity Trends in United States Adults, 1988-2014 , published in the July-August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. We need all hands on deck: in the kitchen, grocery stores and retailers, schools, doctors’ offices, and government agencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

A 2021 report by the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the number of medical visits via telehealth grew from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid. billion in 2014. million in 2020.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

On April 29, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), issued the final rule on Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs (the “Final Rule”). Enrollee Participation in Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (“D-SNP”) Governance (§ 422.107).

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SQA

JUNE 10, 2021

A total of 53 normative acts and two Guides were issued regarding the access to essential products and services in the fight against the new coronavirus. There are 11 regulatory projects for the medical devices’ field: Implementation of the National Implant Registry (RNI) in Brazil’s public and private health services.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Beyond the quantifiable impacts are other positive impacts such as patients’ access to specialists, more timely service, provider satisfaction, and ultimately, improved patient outcomes. Growing telehealth throughout the rural regions of the U.S. could help to alleviate the epidemic of hospital closures in these areas.

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