8/5/2025 2:36:03 PM CMS Launches WISeR Model to Target Waste by Leveraging (Broken) Prior Authorization System By Nancy Halstead Sarah Cummings Stewart Caitlin Chambers The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the launch of the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction...
1/21/2025 2:12:22 PM DOJ exceeds $2.9 billion in FCA recoveries in 2024 and reports a record number of qui tams By Brian Bewley Selina Coleman Sarah Cummings Stewart Kristin Parker Matthew Loughran +2 more... Show less On January 15, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries for civil cases in fiscal year 2024...
12/3/2024 12:00:00 PM Medicare overpayment rule standard changes finalized in 2025 CMS Physician Fee Schedule By Scot T. Hasselman Nancy Halstead Tom Greeson Nicole Aiken-Shaban Kaitlyn Dunn Peter Terreri Matthew Loughran +4 more... Show less In the final 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which is set to be published in the Federal Register on December 9, the Centers for...
9/26/2024 6:52:21 PM OIG Issues Unfavorable Opinion on Medicare Advantage Gainsharing Arrangements By Brittney Cafero The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) has published an unfavorable advisory opinion...
4/23/2024 6:05:16 PM Are you listening, Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D Plans? It’s CMS (Again) By Scot T. Hasselman Nicole Aiken-Shaban Whitney Petrie Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less Making good on its promises to enhance oversight of Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Part D plans, the Centers for Medicare and...
2/26/2024 3:16:27 AM DOJ Announces $2.7 Billion in FCA Recoveries and Enforcement Priorities By Selina Coleman Sarah Cummings Stewart Megan Engel Andrew Lu Matthew Loughran +2 more... Show less The Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that its False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries for civil cases raked in approximately $2.7 billion...
1/31/2024 2:19:25 AM CMS Issues RFI for Medicare Advantage Data By Scot T. Hasselman Nicole Aiken-Shaban Whitney Petrie Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less Building on prior requests for information and an increased focus on Medicare Advantage oversight, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
11/15/2023 4:32:06 PM No Criminal Charges for Cooperative Medicare Advantage Organization By Sarah Cummings Stewart Ryan Pate On October 26, 2023, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that a Miami federal grand jury returned an indictment charging a...
4/27/2023 6:35:03 PM A Potential Route to RADV Judicial Review: Part III By James Segroves In part I, we discussed whether federal district courts could exercise jurisdiction under the federal-question statute over legal...
4/20/2023 2:59:30 PM A Potential Route to RADV Judicial Review: Part II By James Segroves In part I, we discussed whether federal district courts could exercise jurisdiction under the federal-question statute over legal...
4/13/2023 3:41:17 PM A Potential Route to RADV Judicial Review: Part I By James Segroves The Medicare Act does not expressly provide for judicial review of overpayment determinations made by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
3/31/2023 8:22:26 PM Proposed legislation to tackle Medicare Advantage upcoding in response to overpayment concerns By Scot T. Hasselman Nicole Aiken-Shaban Ellen Pighini On March 27, 2023, two United States Senators, Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced the bipartisan No Unreasonable...
2/22/2023 3:17:44 PM “Contrary to the Public Interest” Part II: CMS Again Invokes Retroactive-Rulemaking Authority By James Segroves The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a Medicare-related final rule invoking the agency’s statutory...
8/30/2022 6:46:18 PM OIG Approves Rewards Program for Medicare Advantage Organizations By Scot T. Hasselman Nicole Aiken-Shaban Courtney Potts After a long line of opinions scrutinizing the use of rewards programs offered by providers, the Department of Health and Human Services’...
6/7/2022 3:54:22 PM Recent Medicare Advantage and Part D rule increases regulatory oversight on third party marketers By Matthew Loughran The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has published a final rule that governed the way that Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part...
12/23/2021 7:10:15 PM Future of discount safe harbor for prescription drugs remains uncertain By Ryan Pate In November 2020, four months after the Trump Administration issued a series of Executive Orders reiterating its policy goals on reducing...