The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued new Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (“SRDP”) forms, and, beginning June 1, 2017, these SRDP forms will be mandatory for those parties submitting voluntary self-disclosures of actual or potential violations of the federal physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”) through the SRDP. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care...
Compliance programs are an important tool for health care providers. Compliance programs help to prevent fraud, waste and abuse, create a mechanism for catching problems early, and effective compliance programs can also provide the basis for a penalty reduction under the US Sentencing Guidelines if an entity is ever faced with sentencing for a criminal...
Clinical laboratories have until May 30, 2017 to make required reports to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) regarding payment rates paid by private payors for certain diagnostic tests and the volume of such tests furnished for such payors, according to a CMS announcement on March 30, 2017. Last year CMS issued a...
On February 8th, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division, Fraud Section issued new guidance (available here) on how it evaluates the effectiveness of a corporate compliance program when conducting an investigation of a corporation. This guidance is significant as it is the first of its kind since the confirmation of the new U.S. Attorney...
Not relying on Congress to take action on the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has proposed new regulations intended to attract health insurance issuers back into ACA health insurance exchanges and stabilize the individual and small group insurance markets. On February 17, 2017 CMS proposed a set of modifications...
On February 17, 2017 the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) posted a Drug Pricing and Reimbursement Web portfolio on its website that, according to the OIG announcement, “pulls together the HHS OIG’s body of work since 2010 as well as other relevant items that relate to drug pricing and reimbursement in HHS programs.” The...
President Trump signed an executive order (the “Order”) on January 30th, 2017 aiming to reduce bureaucracy by requiring agencies to remove two regulations for every one new regulation they implement. The cost of any new regulation should be offset by the elimination of these other two previously issued regulations. The Order could have major consequences...
Author’s note: Dorsey Health Strategies (DHS), a healthcare business consultancy founded by Dorsey & Whitney, offers a comprehensive array of business advisory and regulatory services to health industry clients; accordingly, DHS articles will address healthcare business challenges and regulatory considerations. Since telehealth/virtual care/digital health is an area of expertise at Dorsey Health Strategies, this article...
One of President Trump’s first actions in office was to sign an Executive Order stating that his Administration will seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act (the “Act”). In the meantime, President Trump directed the executive branch to take “all actions consistent with law to minimize the unwarranted economic and regulatory burdens of the Act,...
As of January 6, 2017, final rules published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (the “OIG”) implementing certain exceptions to the Civil Monetary Penalty law (“CMP”) took effect. The CMP rules were published alongside final rules regarding safe harbors to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”), about...
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