8/15/2025 10:09:17 PM CMS Announces Health Tech Ecosystem Initiative By Samantha Beck The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has announced a Health Tech Ecosystem initiative, developed in response to a May...
11/29/2023 12:26:47 AM Artificial Intelligence at the White House and on the Hill: A look at implications for health care By Wendell Bartnick Vanessa Perumal Recent efforts by the federal government to develop a strategy for guiding (and regulating) the use of artificial intelligence (AI) have...
7/20/2023 2:15:07 PM OIG again approves online health directory’s use of appointment and advertising fees By Nicole Aiken-Shaban Peter Terreri Matthew Loughran The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released an advisory opinion permitting a...
6/9/2023 9:24:19 PM FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Good Clinical Practice in Ongoing Clinical Trial Modernization Efforts By Kevin Madagan Sarah Thompson Schick Note: This is Part 2 in a series of blog posts on developments from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) regarding its...
4/21/2023 2:40:21 PM New Opportunities, New Challenges: FDA Elaborates on use of Digital Health in Drug and Biological Product Development By Sarah Thompson Schick Rebecca Jones McKnight Vicki Tankle Roswill Mejia +1 more... Show less Note: This is Part 1 in a series of blog posts on developments from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) regarding its...
4/6/2023 7:46:13 PM Regulators and class action plaintiffs direct attention to health care websites’ and mobile apps’ use of third-party trackers By Matthew Loughran Health care and health care-adjacent organizations are seeing a steep increase in risk arising from the frequently utilized third-party...
3/17/2023 9:51:24 PM MACs Consider Guidance on Remote Patient Monitoring Amid Exploding Utilization By Nancy Halstead Lauren Bentlage Sebnem Dugmeoglu On February 28, 2023, six of the seven Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs), who administer Medicare reimbursement on behalf of the...
3/29/2022 7:30:35 PM OIG blesses digital health substance use disorder treatment program paid for by providers and suppliers By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Ellen Pighini The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently issued a favorable advisory opinion to a...
7/15/2021 9:45:40 PM Consensus among HHS agencies on addressing social determinants of health through better data capture, interoperability By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Over the last decade, members of the medical and public health communities around the world have widely studied and acknowledged the...
12/14/2020 7:46:21 PM HHS proposes important changes to key aspects of HIPAA Privacy Rule By Nancy Halstead Brad Rostolsky Vicki Tankle The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the agency that enforces the Health Insurance...
11/24/2020 12:20:10 AM Final Rules Modernizing Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Released By Selina Coleman Hatmaker Pawlitz James Segroves Nicole Aiken-Shaban James Hennessy Andrew Lu +3 more... Show less The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released complementary rules this past Friday, November 20, 2020, to modernize and...
7/28/2020 6:02:17 PM Final rules modernizing Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law under review by OMB: anticipating the future of value-based care By Rebecca Dittrich David Bender The much-anticipated final rules modernizing the safe harbors under the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the physician self-referral...
1/30/2020 9:37:58 PM HHS Sustains Digital Health Momentum and Continues Publishing Policy Initiatives to Kick-off 2020 By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Rebecca Dittrich The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) started the new decade by keeping up its momentum to encourage patient engagement...