November 6, 2019
Yesterday, Judge Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed claims alleging that Gilead Sciences, Inc. defrauded the United States government and violated the False Claims Act (FCA) [...]
October 11, 2019
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released the results of a study to identify problems with Head Start program eligibility screening. What did they find? Out of 15 programs, seven correctly determined [...]
October 3, 2019
We previously reported about a group of False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases brought by the National Healthcare Analysis Group (“NHCA”), a Wall Street funded “professional relator” that has filed nearly a dozen FCA cases [...]
September 23, 2019
FTLF Partner Scott S. Sheffler will be in Tampa, Florida this week to participate in the Florida Council for Resource Development Conference to discuss post-award grant conditions within colleges and universities. On Friday, September [...]
September 20, 2019
On Thursday, September 26, 2019, FTLF Partner Scott Sheffler will be the luncheon speaker at the inaugural meeting of the National Grant Management Association (NGMA) New York Chapter. Mr. Sheffler’s presentation, Subrecipient Monitoring: Strategies, [...]
September 16, 2019
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (“SAMHSA”) recently issued two Proposed Rules which, if finalized, would bring additional changes to 42 CFR Part 2 (“Part 2”), the federal regulations which require [...]
August 1, 2019
In July 2019, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a new resource entitled “Modernizing Health Care to Improve Physical Accessibility.” In this publication, CMS provides an inventory of resources that [...]
July 24, 2019
The National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) recently issued guidance related to the disclosure of “other support,” “foreign components,” and “financial conflicts of interest” for NIH grantees.  The new guidance, issued on July 10, [...]
July 22, 2019
On July 18, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) published a proposed rule concerning changes to the Medicare home health prospective payment system for calendar year (CY) 2020 (the “CY 2020 [...]
July 18, 2019
As many grantees are already well-aware, with the promulgation of the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (“Uniform Guidance”) (2 C.F.R. Part 200; 45 C.F.R. Part 75), certain [...]