The Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions recently started an investigation into whether agency “guidance” is being used as a means to impose obligations on the public while circumventing the formal rule making process.
Arent Fox LLP is proud to announce that, for the thirteenth year in a row, Health Care partner Linda A. Baumann served as editor-in-chief of a comprehensive desk reference focused on fraud and abuse for lawyers in the health care industry.
For almost 30 years, hospitals and certain other health care organizations have been required to report to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) specified “adverse actions” regarding physicians and dentists that they employ, contract with, or have on staff.
On December 30, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its annual solicitation for the development and/or modification of safe harbor provisions under the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute.
Arent Fox Health Care partner Linda A. Baumann was quoted extensively in an article in Bloomberg BNA’s Health Care Fraud Report, which previews the top compliance challenges facing health care providers and suppliers in 2015.
Health care organizations that contract with physicians can face potential liability, as well as exclusion from participation in federal health care programs, under various laws (such as the Stark Law), the anti-kickback statute, and the False Claims Act (FCA).
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a policy allowing acute care and critical access hospitals to settle inpatient-status claims currently on appeal in exchange for a partial payment equal to 68 percent of the claims’ net allowable amount.
Last month, a federal district court in Georgia ordered Columbus Regional Healthcare System to turn over communications protected by the attorney-client privilege in a decision that could have a chilling effect on requests for legal advice, if misunderstood.
Arent Fox Health Care partner Linda Baumann was quoted by Bloomberg BNA’s Health Care Fraud Report about Intermountain Healthcare’s settlement with the Justice Department.
Arent Fox Health Care Associate Hillary Stemple will present a webinar hosted by myLawCLE on the topic of “Health Care Self-Disclosure: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Navigate the Self-Disclosure Process.”
The ABA Young Lawyers Division Health Law Committee and ABA Health Law Section is hosting a networking reception followed by a roundtable discussion with senior government attorneys from CMS, DOJ, and OIG.
