The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 30, 2013

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 2, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2014 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule (the 2014 IPPS Final Rule). Indest III, J.D.,

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Healthcare It News

MAY 5, 2023

His responsibilities now include the Southeast Asian market where he has lived from 2008 to 2014 and held senior positions with leading healthcare IT companies like Wolters Kluwer and Carestream Health. 1M grant awarded to evaluate Orygen's digital mental health platform A University of Melbourne professor has received almost A$1.5

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 27, 2023

has seen a consistent decline in primary care clinicians since 2014 due to fewer clinicians entering the workforce, increased rates of burnout and decreased direct patient care, according to the latest evidence report from the Primary Care Collaborative and Robert Graham Center. What You Should Know: – The U.S.

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McGuire Wood

MAY 22, 2023

Founded in 2014, ACN owns and operates six clinical research sites across three states. Founded in 2012, the firm typically invests between $25 million and $150 million in healthcare companies within segments that include life sciences outsourcing, payors and payor services, and providers and outsourced services.

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McGuire Wood

MARCH 9, 2022

Founded in 2014, the company’s set of services include equipment sales, part sales, equipment rentals, depot repair service, equipment installation and de-installation, and field-based repair service. is a lower middle market private equity firm focused on healthcare services.

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McGuire Wood

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Founded in 2014, the company’s set of services include equipment sales, part sales, equipment rentals, depot repair service, equipment installation and de-installation, and field-based repair service. is a lower middle market private equity firm focused on healthcare services. Probo , based in Fishers, Ind.,

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McGuire Wood

JANUARY 10, 2024

Founded in 2014, the firm manages more than $400 million in capital. Leavitt Equity Partners (LEP) has announced it has closed its third fund with more than $180 million. The new fund, LEP III, surpassed the firm’s target of $150 million. LEP , based in Salt Lake City, is a healthcare-focused PE firm.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 28, 2024

The Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services has discovered documents containing PHI have been left unsecured for a decade. Complimentary identity monitoring and protection services have been offered to individuals whose Social Security numbers were involved.

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Healthicity

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They claimed that, for payment years 2014 to 2019, Cigna operated a “chart review” program by obtaining medical records from healthcare providers documenting services they had previously rendered to Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Cigna’s plans. government joined the action.

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McGuire Wood

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Kain , based in New York and founded in 2014, is a private equity firm focused on investments in healthcare services and information technology companies. HCA, founded in 2004 and based in Kansas City, operates a group of affiliated hospices in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado.

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McGuire Wood

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Kain , based in New York and founded in 2014, is a private equity firm focused on investments in healthcare services and information technology companies. Founded in 2007, the organization states it is Arizona’s largest privately owned primary care group. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

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Symplr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 2004, President Bush set a goal for every American to have an electronic health record (EHR) by 2014. The goal was that better and safer care could be delivered through more complete knowledge of a patient that was accessible in a secure repository.

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McGuire Wood

JANUARY 29, 2024

Peloton , founded in 2014 and based in Greenwich, Conn., OnPoint , founded in 2020 and based in Dallas, is a healthcare technology company offering solutions intended to help address physician burnout and optimize financial and operational efficiency of provider organizations.

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McGuire Wood

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

is a healthcare compliance software-as-a-service (SaaS) business. and founded in 2014, pursues investments in healthcare IT and other technology service and software companies. Compliancy Group , based in Greenlawn, N.Y., Aldrich Capital Partners , based in Tower Vienna, Va.,

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

What You Should Know: – CitiusTech announced that it has acquired Wilco Source, an industry-leading Salesforce solutions company to expand its offerings in patient services, care management and digital front door. Founded in 2014, Wilco Source has more than 400 employees across the US and India. Acquisition Impact.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Its prospective and proactive method combines digital health technology with differentiated clinical physical rehabilitation services. Bardavon will use the investment to accelerate go to market activities, expand capabilities, and introduce new offerings and services to all payer classes. The company currently has over 220 employees.

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McGuire Wood

OCTOBER 3, 2022

iXCells , based in San Diego, is a provider of cell-based products and discovery services to the academic, biotech and pharmaceutical communities worldwide. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on primary and induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cellular models. GPP , based in Greenwich, Conn., GPP , based in Greenwich, Conn.,

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 31, 2023

District Court Judge has denied class certification in a long-running legal battle against CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield over its 2014 data breach that affected 1.1 million individuals who were registered to use CareFirst’s websites and online services. million plan members. In 2018, the U.S.

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McGuire Wood

MAY 16, 2022

Founded in 2021, Agile’s services include workers’ compensation injury management, pre-employment screening, drug testing and other recurring employee testing requirements. Founded in 2014, the firm pursues control-oriented investments in companies with enterprise values up to $250 million across a wide range of industries.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2024

“As health systems grow in complexity, the need for compassionate, patient-centered services that help patients along their care journey has increased exponentially,” said Brad Prugh, CEO at Care Continuity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The funding will drive expansion for the Company, allowing for the hiring of new employees and continued growth of its products and services. ShowdMe’s software and “Compliance-as-a-Service” offering simplifies the training experience for users by providing the platform and full-service support to help users complete training remotely.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 8, 2022

The report shows how adversaries stepped up their attacks on the healthcare industry from 2014 through 2017. In 2014, Boston Children’s Hospital suffered a major distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, there was a massive cyberattack on Anthem Inc. McAfee observed an average of 375 COVID-themed threats every minute in 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2023

Company Adds Two Board Members and a Senior Executive to Lead its Medicare Advantage Business Aledade , the largest network of independent primary care practices in the country, today announced the closing of a $260 million Series F funding round to enhance and acquire services and technology to support its practices.

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McGuire Wood

AUGUST 2, 2022

is a full-service revenue cycle management company. Founded in 2004, the firm pursues acquisition opportunities across the healthcare industry, including services, products and distribution companies, and prefers to make more substantial investments from a dollars perspective. Aspirion , based in Columbus, Ga.,

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The demand for liability protections reemerged in 2009 during H1N1, in attenuated form during the 2014-15 West Africa Ebola public health emergency, and, prominently, during COVID-19. Department of Health and Human Services, or the Office of Global Affairs. Government, the U.S.

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Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

for Medicaid Fraud In March 2014, the Maryland Board of Dental Examiners received complaints against Seyed Hamid Tofigh, DDS, claiming the dentist posed a risk of harm, and suspended his license. million in restitution and is prohibited from providing federally or state-funded services. Dentist Ordered to Pay $8.5M

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HIT Consultant

JULY 14, 2023

FCA Allegations The allegations contends that NextGen falsely obtained certification for its software in connection with the 2014 Edition certification criteria published by HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator. The whistleblowers in this case will receive $5.58M.

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Health Care Law Brief

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services reaffirmed its longstanding position that an arrangement that “carves out” Federal health care program (FHCP) business is not dispositive with respect to whether such arrangement implicates the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). Last month, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 1, 2023

Tenet Healthcare has agreed to a $29.7

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2019

The use of telehealth services climbed dramatically over the four years between 2014 and 2018, according to new research based on healthcare claims data. To get a look at telehealth’s impact on healthcare overall, FAIR Health analyzed more than 29 billion healthcare claim records.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 23, 2023

Postal Prescription Service Impermissibly Disclosed Patient Names to Kroger Healthy Options Inc., which does business as Postal Prescription Service (PPS), has announced an impermissible disclosure of limited patient information to its affiliated grocery business. and were used to create grocery accounts for those individuals.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Strategic acquisition of industry leading Salesforce services and solutions company to expand CitiusTech’s Salesforce offerings in the areas of Member experience, Care management, Digital Front Door, Patient Services and REMS programs. patient and provider portals) (Salesforce Communities).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2019

Telehealth Leadership Group programme lead Patricia Kerr says the group is still doing a detailed analysis of results, but initial findings show there has been a general increase in the use of telehealth within DHBs since the last survey in 2014, as well as between DHBs.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

. – Cardiologs will further strengthen Philips’ cardiac monitoring and diagnostics offering with innovative software technology, electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis and reporting services. Cardiologs was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Paris, France. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Launched in 2014, 8fit promotes healthy lifestyles by providing personalized nutrition, physical activity, and mindfulness programs that address all aspects of its users’ health to help them achieve their goals. 8fit Background. Like Withings, 8fit puts the user’s health at the center of its personalized plans.

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MARCH 17, 2022

– Video and voice calling (available with Premium Service Plan). – Curated entertainment content (music) and brain games (available with Premium Service Plan). – Streaming radio (available with Premium Service Plan). – Texting and emailing. – Family photo and video sharing.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 15, 2019

With the ambitious mission to put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on earth, Babylon Health, an AI-powered smartphone app, was founded in January 2013 and launched to the public in April 2014.

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