February 14, 2020
Investigations into the relationships Chinese entities have with U.S. academia have grown ten-fold this year. The Department of Education recently issued letters to Harvard and Yale requesting a vast amount of information, [...]
February 11, 2020
On February 7, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the defendant hospital in a False Claims Act (“FCA”) case premised on falsified data. The case—United [...]
January 28, 2020
Yesterday, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) published a new informative Program Assistance Letter (PAL) regarding telehealth and its intersection with the Health Center Program scope of project. In the PAL, HRSA [...]
January 22, 2020
Today, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) issued proposed revisions to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (“Uniform Guidance”), codified at 2 C.F.R. Part 200 / [...]
January 21, 2020
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a new Inspector General (IG), following an extended period of oversight by acting IGs. Sean O’Donnell was confirmed on December 19, 2019 to lead the [...]
January 9, 2020
CLIENT ALERT: CMS Issues Info Bulletin for State Medicaid Agencies to Avoid 340B Duplicate Discounts
On January 8, 2020, CMS’ Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) issued an Informational Bulletin (“Bulletin”) sharing best practices with state Medicaid agencies for the prevention of 340B program Medicaid duplicate [...]
December 9, 2019
National Institutes of Health (NIH) joins rank with its peers via its Data Management and Sharing Policy. This proposed policy will apply to all research that is funded or conducted in whole [...]
November 22, 2019
On November 6, 2019, the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York vacated, in its entirety, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Final Rule, Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights [...]
November 19, 2019
When it comes to electronic protected health information (ePHI), the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is not in the business of providing covered entities with unlimited chances. OCR recently announced two enforcement [...]
November 18, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) made two major announcements relating to payment to home health agencies under Medicare in late October. On November 8, 2019, CMS published in the Federal Register [...]