McGuire Wood

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The advisory opinion indicates that OIG views the bona fide employee protections under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) very broadly, protecting compensation based on revenue streams that previously may have been deemed to fall outside the safe harbor’s protection.

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Hall Render

APRIL 4, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently issued Advisory Opinion No. 23-15 (“Advisory Opinion”), a favorable opinion involving a consulting firm’s (“Requestor”) proposal to offer gift cards to its existing physician practice customers for referring potential new customers.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Some ReviveHealth members will be able to access second opinions online from Cleveland Clinic physicians.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Anthem signs on with Cleveland Clinic's, Amwell's virtual second opinions service. Wed, 09/08/2021 - 12:40.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

On December 28, 2023, the Office of Inspector General (the “OIG”) issued a favorable Advisory Opinion (No. 23-15 ) (the “Opinion”) to a consulting vendor (the “Requestor”) that wanted to provide up to $75 in gift cards to physician practices in exchange for referring the Requestor’s practice optimization services (e.g.,

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 11, 2023

On March 24, 2023, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued Advisory Opinion 23-03 (the “Opinion”), in which it decided not to impose sanctions on an Arrangement to provide prepaid gift cards to patients for certain preventative screening tests (the “Arrangement”).

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The interim CIO at NHS Digital has said he wants the centre to be “more opinionated” as the organisation looks ahead to its upcoming merger.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

H1 expands Global Doctor Network to include Nobel Laureates and commits to increasing scientific discourse among healthcare professionals H1, which provides the largest global healthcare professional data ecosystem to enable life sciences, academic medical institutions, health systems, and payors, announced today that it has acquired London-based Faculty (..)

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Hall Render

JUNE 16, 2023

The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (the “WHD”) recently issued an opinion letter on May 30, 2023. This opinion letter clarifies how to calculate the amount of leave used under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) when an employee takes FMLA leave for less than a full week during a week that includes a holiday.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 7, 2022

As a first step towards addressing citational racism, we traced the citational relationships between the AMA’s and NMA’s flagship journals — JAMA and JNMA — focusing on their opinion pieces as useful indicators of current and future research as well as priorities and agendas. 01% of JAMA opinion pieces). What we found.

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Health Care Law Brief

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

On January 11, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued, without an opportunity for public notice and comment, [1] a Final Rule, amending its internal process for accepting and issuing advisory opinions. 11, 2022).

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

On April 25, 2022 , the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued Advisory Opinion No. The opinion identified six characteristics of the arrangement which greatly reduced the risk of fraud and abuse. Mode of Profit Distributions.

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Health Law Advisor

APRIL 10, 2023

OIG Advisory Opinion (AO) 23-03 On March 29, 2023, the OIG posted AO 23-03 to its website. AO 23-03 is the OIG’s first opportunity to apply its newly announced clarification of the difference between a “cash equivalent” and an ‘instrument convertible to cash” in an advisory opinion.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (the “WHD”) recently issued a new opinion letter on February 9, 2023 – the first opinion letter issued that addresses a question related to the FMLA since 2020. Some employers may find it is easier to track FMLA use in hours rather than weeks.

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Healthcare Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Advisory Opinion provides helpful insight to healthcare providers considering arrangements intended to enhance access to telehealth services during the PHE and beyond. Practical Takeaways.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 24, 2022

The effect of Friday's opinion will be felt by providers, medical groups and hospitals across the country, including primary care doctors and emergency physicians, experts say.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 1, 2019

At UCLA Health, they’re rolling out a program in which its doctors will offer second opinion consults to patients around the world. To launch the program, UCLA is partnering with MORE Health, a technology vendor which offers what it calls a “physician collaboration platform.”

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The healthcare professional networking and data company said the deal will give its users access to the latest research in biology and medicine.

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Health Care Law Brief

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In an advisory opinion posted November 10, 2021 ( AO 21-15 ), the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) appeared to soften a disturbing position that it had taken in 2012 regarding the employment safe harbor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The JMIR study found themes like cost, functionality, progress tracking and educational content were important to consumers.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2023

The school’s practice of allocating 16 of its 100 seats to underrepresented minority applicants was ruled unconstitutional by Justice Lewis Powell, who wrote the controlling opinion. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote the opinion for the Court, in which she affirmed Justice Powell’s opinion in Bakke.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Vasileios Nittas, doctoral candidate at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, looks at the impact of social media and digital self-tracking tools on public health.

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 28, 2022

States have a wide variety of opinions on how difficult the looming process of resuming annual eligibility reviews after the COVID-19 public health emergency ends might be, according to MACPAC.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A less-publicized outcome of the deal, however, is that the company has also absorbed and implemented the Oncology Insight With Watson machine learning-powered second opinion service for experts providing cancer care — and it will show that at HIMSS18.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, divergent opinions surfaced regarding whether continuing psychotherapy could (or perhaps ideally should) be continued with the same lead therapist who delivered the integration therapy. The evidence base for a wide range of clinical variables simply does not yet exist and will take many more years to properly accumulate.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

On Thursday, March 16, the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued OIG Advisory Opinion (“AO”) No. 22-05 , relating to subsidization of certain Medicare cost-sharing obligations in the context of a clinical trial involving medical devices (the “Proposed Arrangement”).

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Bill of Health

MARCH 30, 2022

The Supreme Court’s order was issued without a majority opinion. Justice Thomas also opposed the stay, but did not author a separate opinion. The stay allows the Navy to continue to use vaccination status in making decisions about assignment and deployment while the litigation continues.

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Bill of Health

MAY 8, 2023

In Dobbs , Justice Alito notes that the majority opinion “is not based on any view about when a State should regard prenatal life as having rights or legally cognizable interests.” In one recent federal district court opinion, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Like abortion, they are not mentioned in the Constitution.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 26, 2020

InfiniteMD was designed to help patients get more information about their condition via virtual visits.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 26, 2023

It uses a competitive learning approach against unlabelled data.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In an unsigned per curiam opinion, the court deemphasized the testing and masking options, calling them the “only exceptions.” As the dissenting opinion in West Virginia put it, the court invented the major questions doctrine as a “get-out-of-text-free” card.) In National Federation of Independent Business v.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2023

Frank McGillin, CEO of The Clinic spoke with Healthcare IT News about some of the cost savings, patient experience gains and other care delivery efficiencies occurring there and elsewhere as automation, virtual second opinions and other innovations change the paradigm for cancer care. Like what you hear?

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Mobi Health News

JULY 23, 2019

Achieving sustainable impact remains a key digital health challenge, and carefully exploring the preferences of patients might be part of the solution, argues Vasileios Nittas.

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American Medical Compliance

APRIL 1, 2024

What you will learn Principles, code of professional conduct, and advisory opinions Patient Autonomy Nonmalfience Benefience Indiana Statuses and Administrative Rules Licensure of Dentists Licensure of Dental Hygienists Details Course length: 2 hours. These are the ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct (ADA Code).

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Mobi Health News

JULY 16, 2020

The service enables patients from the region to make informed decisions about cancer care, with the aim of expanding their treatment options and improving clinical outcomes.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 3, 2020

Babyscripts CEO Anish Sebastian outlines major tech-driven trends to keep an eye on for the new year.

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