Health Law Alert

Last year, the Nebraska Unicameral updated Nebraska’s Wounds of Violence reporting statute. In the statutory update, the Attorney General was directed to develop and distribute a statewide model protocol for the submission of anonymous reports of actual or attempted sexual assaults by July 2019. In the interim, the Attorney General’s […]

On August 15, 2019, the OIG announced a $1.2 million settlement with a private Alabama orthopedic group. One of the allegations was that the Group had violated the Stark laws because the Group paid its shareholder physicians directly or indirectly based on the volume of each shareholder physician’s referrals for […]

Section 501(r) of the Code established a number of requirements for tax-exempt hospitals, including provisions related to financial assistance policies, limitations on charges, and billing and collection matters. Every § 501(c)(3) tax-exempt hospital, including “dual status” governmental hospitals (those governmental hospitals that separately obtained § 501(c)(3) status), must adopt and […]

Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc., the parent company of NoMoreClipboard, recently paid $100,000 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and entered into a corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. […]

On May 6, 2019, the US Department of Justice (“Department”) released “Guidance” describing certain steps that parties may take to earn “cooperation credit” in False Claims Act settlements. Cooperation credit refers to the government’s willingness to reduce damage multiples or “penalties” in actual FCA settlements. The Guidance will have direct […]