McBrayer Law Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

This is a small step in the direction of a more flexible OIG stance on the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”), but it doesn’t completely sidestep risks.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 27, 2024

By Vincent Joralemon As therapies using drugs like MDMA, psilocybin, and LSD advance through the FDA research and approval pipeline, patients should be prepared for steep price tags attached to these procedures. Although this may be highly cost-effective (considering the cost of untreated PTSD), insurers may balk at the price tag.

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Foster Swift

JANUARY 11, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued two highly-anticipated final rules (collectively, the “Final Rule”) to modernize and clarify the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Statute (“Stark”) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”).

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

And the OIG recently issued a fraud alert about telemedicine—really addressing the same sort of schemes that the Department of Justice was prosecuting, involving kickbacks to practitioners who never saw patients or only over the phone. If you look at the fraud alert, it talks about anti-kickback. Maureen Stewart.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

CEO gets nearly 19% raise How this Triangle drugmaker secured $45M amid brutal funding environment Morrisville public company looks to divest subsidiary after CEO tried to buy it New endowment created from assets of foundation dissolved after Randolph Health bankruptcy North Carolina distributing $2.6B

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Luke’s Minnesota system names CEO Minnesota woman delayed transplant treatment shows healthcare struggles Slow Transfer To Nursing Homes Driving Avoidable, Unpaid Hospital Stays in Minnesota with $487M Price Tag $3M gift saves Minnesota hospital’s dialysis program Minnesota hospitals: 65,000 days of care avoidable if patients had somewhere (..)

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