Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

million to resolve a lawsuit filed by the system’s former Chief Compliance Officer, Ronald Sherman. Global billing or collaborative care arrangements are not per se violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute, however, there is greater fraud and abuse risk in these types of arrangements unless there is active, ongoing monitoring for compliance.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

From 2015 through 2019, the pharmaceutical company that manufactures Nuedexta paid the Alabama psychiatrist more than $400,000 to make speeches about Nuedexta. Routine audits should be conducted, and the results of the audits should be reported at the compliance and ethics committee meetings and in reports to the governing body.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 11, 2023

2015 Health Plan 78,800,000 Hacking/IT Incident American Medical Collection Agency 2019 Business Associate 26,059,725 Hacking/IT Incident HCA Healthcare 2023 Healthcare Provider 11,000,000+ Hacking/IT Incident Premera Blue Cross 2015 Health Plan 11,000,000 Hacking/IT Incident Excellus Health Plan, Inc.

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Provider Trust

JULY 26, 2022

On June 7, 2022, Theresa Pickering of Norcross, Georgia was indicted by a federal grand jury on federal charges of health care fraud, aggravated identity theft, and distribution of controlled substances. In addition to these allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse, Pickering had a history of fraud. Donna Thiel. Linkedin.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 4, 2023

Mayo Alao (Denver/Indianapolis offices) practices in the area of health care law with a focus on hospital and health system matters, regulatory and compliance issues, corporate transactions and hospital/physician alignment. Mayo graduated from the Saint Louis University School of Law in 2015.

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Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

FY 2021 was also a record-shattering year for DOJ as it relates to health care fraud enforcement; over $5 billion (90% of the total) was obtained from cases pursued against individuals and entities in the health care and life sciences industries. With collections amounting to $5.6 billion received in FY 2020. KEY TAKEAWAYS.

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Hall Render

JUNE 1, 2022

For more than 15 years, Ritu has been an active member of AHLA and has held leadership roles consistently since 2015. Ritu also serves as the Chair of the Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Group and has been a member of the Editorial Board for the Health Care Compliance Professionals Manual since 2019.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Despite the challenges of compliance and the gaps in HIPAA , the legislation has provided many benefits for healthcare organizations, healthcare professionals, patients, and health plan members. Before the introduction of HIPAA, healthcare fraud was rife and was costing the healthcare industry around $7 billion a year.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2022

For example, the Administrative Requirements (Part 162) helped reduce insurance fraud and accelerated eligibility inquiries, authorization requests, and claims processing. Consequently, when data breaches occurred due to a lack of compliance by Business Associates, there was no accountability. billion and $11.5

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 31, 2022

To best answer the question what is a HIPAA violation, it is necessary to explain what HIPAA is, who it applies to, and what constitutes a violation; for although most people believe they know what a HIPAA compliance violation is, evidence suggests otherwise. What is HIPAA and Who Does It Apply To? Other Types of HIPAA Law Violation.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 27, 2022

A California home healthcare and hospice agencies’ owner was sentenced to 18 months in prison for one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and one count of conspiracy to pay and receive healthcare kickbacks.

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Verisys

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Proven software and technology which continuously monitors these sources will ensure that your healthcare organization is in compliance at all times. Verisys’ owned and maintained Fraud Abuse Control Information System (FACIS) is a provider data supersource.

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Total HIPAA

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A federal grand jury indicted a former MedStar Ambulance paramedic on counts of identity theft and fraud. He altered patient records as part of a scheme to steal narcotics from a local hospital from January 2013 to May 2015. How to Maintain Compliance with HIPAA. Keeping detailed logs is the first step toward HIPAA compliance.

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Health Law RX

AUGUST 10, 2021

The Office of Inspector General has emphasized the importance of Board involvement in and oversight of the provider company’s compliance program. In that way, the Board is ultimately responsible for ensuring the company’s compliance. Moreover, the U.S.

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Health Care Performance

JULY 20, 2022

Compliance lesson: Enforcement agencies are actively using data analytics to identify, investigate and prosecute providers with unusual billing activity – and so should you. Mole billing fraud scheme totals $4.1 million in fraudulent payments between 2015 and 2021. How well is your compliance program performing?

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 23, 2022

That’s more than any other year to date apart from 2015 when Anthem Inc reported its 78.8 The investigations will uncover whether there have been any HIPAA violations or violations of state law and whether compliance with these regulations would have likely prevented these breaches. million records. million-record data breach.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 24, 2023

For the first time since 2015, there was a year-over-year decline in the number of data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), albeit only by 1.13% with 707 data breaches of 500 or more records reported. million records in 2021 to 51.9 million records in 2022.

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Verisys

JANUARY 18, 2022

Proven software and technology which continuously monitors these sources will ensure that your healthcare organization is in compliance at all times. Verisys’ owned and maintained Fraud Abuse Control Information System (FACIS) is a provider data supersource. ISO 9001:2015 (quality management).

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

Justice Kagan reasoned that the Court in Escobar noted the FCA is grounded in common law fraud principles under which a defendant’s subjective knowledge of the truth or falsity of its statement is relevant to the knowledge inquiry. Circuit, in a decision joined by then D.C. MWI Corp. , 3d 281, 290–91 (D.C.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Fraud, waste, & abuse. Improper payments are not necessarily measures of fraud, but instead are payments that did not meet statutory, regulatory, administrative, or other legally applicable requirements. billion decrease in estimated improper payments from 2015 to 2018. percent in 2015 to 17.61 Jeremy.Booth@c….

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is the second-largest number of records reported breached on the government site since 2015. The 2015 total included the largest single healthcare data breach on record – health insurer Anthem’s 77.8 Let’s Simplify Compliance Learn how to protect your business from breaches in our upcoming webinar!

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2024

CareFirst announced the data breach in May 2015 and explained that a single database was compromised that stored data that members and other individuals enter to access CareFirst’s websites and online services. In response to major data breaches at Anthem Inc.,

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Health Law RX

JULY 18, 2023

Those subject to the CMP Final Rule should consider prioritizing their compliance efforts because the OIG will begin enforcing the Rule on September 1, 2023. As context, between 2015 and 2022, the DOJ reported FCA settlements with health IT vendors in an amount exceeding $500 million.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 23, 2024

Carreyrou published the story in 2015 that revealed the company was using third-party technology rather than its own, as its own technology was inefficient. Holmes, along with former company president Ramesh Balwani, were charged with criminal fraud for making false claims about the company’s technology and misleading investors.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 18, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights is the main enforcer of HIPAA compliance; however, state Attorneys General also play a role in enforcing compliance with the Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). 2022 New York EyeMed Vision Care $600,000 2.1 million 78.8

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Hall Render

APRIL 6, 2022

However, some of the defendant’s customers typically paid less than the retail price for their medications through several discount programs that the defendant offered between 2006 and 2015. Regarding the PBM’s adoption of this definition, the Court stated that this may not serve as the basis of a fraud claim under the FCA.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

2023) ( Buckman preemption barred MDL asserting fraud on EPA), cert. Also of interest is Acetaminophen ’s discussion of the FDA’s five reviews of the purported “risk” between 2015 and 2023, all of which ended the same way: that due to “limitations and inconsistent findings,” the science was “unable to support a determination of causality.”

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Drug & Device Law

AUGUST 8, 2022

The unfortunate truth is that ECFMG was also a victim of this fake doctor’s fraud. So if compliance with an industry standard is a defense, this plaintiff went a step further and sued the organizations that created the standards. 2015 WL 6393869 (S.D. has no power to enforce compliance”), aff’d , 405 F. 471 (11th Cir.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 4, 2023

2015), finally gave appellate recognition to the preemption of design defect claims for FDA-approved branded prescription drugs. Ohio is one of several states, with New Jersey being the most notable , with statutes precluding punitive damages in product liability cases based on FDA approval or compliance. Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharms.,

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 30, 2023

470 (1996), was decided – removing express preemption as a defense for manufacturers of §510(k) products So defendants moved on fraud on the FDA under an implied preemption theory and won. Mensing , 564 U.S. Mensing , 564 U.S. Lohr , 518 U.S. Davidowitz , 312 U.S. Davidowitz , 312 U.S.

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

2022) (recognizing the following product defect liability theories: “(1) negligent design of the product; (2) negligent manufacture of the product; (3) negligent failure to warn about some aspect of the product; (4) breach of express or implied warranty; or (5) misrepresentation or fraud”). 15-cv-10133, 2015 WL 8175256, at *3 (E.D.

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