Coronavirus/COVID-19

The U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) has begun notifying recipients of Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) grants that they have been selected for program desk reviews.   The American [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) continues to conduct audits and assessments examining whether health centers received duplicate reimbursements from the Health Resources and [...]

Laboratory Companies’ Unnecessary COVID-19 Testing at Nursing Homes Resulted in Fraudulently Billing Medicare The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) remains focused on one of its top enforcement priorities for 2024: detecting, investigating [...]

Health Care Providers That Submitted Reimbursements to HRSA’s UIP for Testing or Vaccines Should Be Aware of Growing Risk of FCA Lawsuits Health care providers that submitted pandemic-era reimbursement claims to the [...]

The Department of the Treasury released an advanced copy of its new Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (“SLFRF”) Interim Final Rule, which implements new eligible uses for awards to States, [...]

Earlier this week, on June 26, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Head Start (OHS) officially issued a long-awaited Final Rule, [...]

On May 9, 2023 the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) issued the “Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications.” [...]

On January 6, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Head Start (OHS) promulgated a Final Rule updating the Interim Final Rule [...]

Given the “current high levels of [COVID] vaccine- and infection-induced immunity and the availability of effective treatments and prevention tools”, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated its COVID-19 [...]

This time last year, many health care providers were scrambling to comply with OSHA’s (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard (Healthcare ETS). Designed to respond to the grave [...]