12/18/2024 4:03:43 PM OIG Issues Voluntary Compliance Guidance for Nursing Facilities By Sonia Nguyen Allie Klimkiewicz A year after issuing its General Compliance Program Guidance, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General...
4/22/2024 2:50:56 AM FTC, HHS, and DOJ Launch Portal to Report Anticompetitive Health Care Practices By Carol Loepere Michelle Mantine Nicole Aiken-Shaban Courtney Averbach Matthew Loughran +2 more... Show less Last week, on April 18, several federal agencies jointly launched a “one-stop shop” to facilitate reporting of allegedly anticompetitive...
11/7/2023 6:46:53 PM HHS OIG Issues General Guidance as First Step in Effort to Modernize Compliance Guidance By Nicole Aiken-Shaban Lesley Reynolds Matthew Loughran As promised back in April in an announcement of its plans to modernize compliance program guidance, the Department of Health and Human...
5/2/2023 7:02:21 PM OIG announces Modernization of Compliance Program Guidance By Janine Tougas Craig Anderson On April 24, 2023, the OIG formally announced that it will be modernizing its existing Compliance Program Guidance (“CPG”). The OIG has...
3/24/2022 7:22:38 PM OIG approves arrangement encouraging device study enrollment for economically disadvantaged Medicare beneficiaries By Andrew Sylora In a March 11 advisory opinion the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) permitted a medical...
2/10/2021 4:08:48 PM What happens when the clock strikes midnight: A Primer on “Midnight Regulations” By Andrew Lu With another presidential transition in the history books, you may find it unsurprising to hear that many of us at Reed Smith are...
10/2/2020 7:36:05 PM Patient access to health information at the forefront of government initiatives and scrutiny By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Even amidst the chaos of a global pandemic, this year multiple U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies have dialed in...
5/21/2020 10:31:13 PM HHS Office of General Counsel advises that the PREP Act preempts state and local requirements that prevent pharmacists from testing for COVID-19 By Megan Engel Jessica Christensen Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of General Counsel issued Advisory Opinion 20-02, which...
1/6/2020 12:48:19 PM OIG Accepting Recommendations for New Anti-kickback Safe Harbors and Fraud Alerts By Debra McCurdy The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued its annual solicitation of recommendations for new or revised Anti-kickback Statute...