Author: Lillie Cox

Lillie assists a wide array of healthcare industry clients with corporate transactions as well as state and federal regulatory compliance. Before joining the firm, Lillie interned with the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. Prior to law school, she worked in fiscal policy research with a focus on state administration of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Iowa Fetal Heartbeat Law to Go Into Effect on July 29, 2024

Iowa’s fetal heartbeat law, House File 732, which was signed into law by Governor Kim Reynolds in 2023, will go into effect on Monday, July 29, 2024. This blog post gives a brief background and summary to help hospitals and providers understand their obligations under the law. The fetal heartbeat law has been temporarily enjoined...

Minnesota Attorney General Notification of Health Care Transactions

On May 26, 2023, the Governor of Minnesota signed into law Minnesota bill HF 402 to increase government oversight of health care transactions that occur in Minnesota or involve Minnesota-based health care entities. Minnesota joins a growing number of states considering or enacting similar measures, including New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon,...

How EKRA and AKS Impact Laboratories and Commission-Based Compensation

With the enactment of the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”) in 2018, the permissibility of commission-based compensation to laboratory sales representatives based on volume, revenue, or profit has come under question, and there is still little case law interpreting the Act. Despite EKRA being a relatively newer law, laboratories should remain mindful of how...

HHS OIG Releases an Updated Health Care Fraud Self-Disclosure Protocol

On November 8, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) released a revised Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol, renamed Health Care Fraud Self-Disclosure Protocol (“SDP”).  Prior to this update, the SDP had not been updated since 2013.  While many of the revisions were procedural only, some of the revisions were...

New Minnesota Assisted Living Licensure Requirements Have Gone Into Effect and the First Survey Results Are Out

On August 1, 2021, an overhaul of the licensing requirements for Minnesota assisted living facilities (codified at Minn. Stat. 144G.08-9999) went into effect. Under the new law, which was also discussed in a previous Dorsey Health Law Blog post, Minnesota assisted living facilities are now required to obtain either an assisted living facility license or,...