A Frier Levitt team comprised of Co-Chair of Healthcare John E. Morrone, Esq., and Senior Counsel Theresa M. DiGuglielmo, Esq., recently achieved an unprecedented “Self-Disclosure” settlement with the Department of Health and Human Services’... Read More
As we’ve said before, “if you don’t have control over your data, you don’t have control over your practice.” But what exactly does that mean and how can physicians use both structured and unstructured data to maximize its value? Frier... Read More
On April 9th, 2019, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) and Department of Justice (DOJ) announced one of the largest health care fraud schemes involving several telemedicine companies, dozens of... Read More
You may have heard the phrase "CMS investigation." Unlike a CMS audit, which is administrative in nature, a CMS investigation usually connotes a federal criminal investigation of suspected health care fraud. A CMS investigation will likely be... Read More
The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Louisiana, recently announced that the owner and operator of the Monroe-based Specialty Drug Testing, LLC (“Specialty”) was indicted by a Federal grand jury for violating the Federal... Read More
As Frier Levitt has mentioned in previous articles, insurers have nearly unanimously waived cost-sharing requirements for virtual telehealth visits since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic. Recently, however, certain payors have begun to roll... Read More
The Office of the Inspector General for Health and Human Services (OIG) issued a comprehensive review of the effectiveness of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for certain opioid-based drugs.... Read More
In recent months, unanimous decisions rendered by 5-judge Appellate Division panels in both the Third and Fourth Departments have shifted the momentum in the battle over who is entitled to the proceeds from the sale and demutualization of New York's... Read More
On March 17, 2015, Premera Blue Cross (“PBC”), the largest health plan in the Pacific Northwest, filed a breach report with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) indicating that... Read More
Rights of Access Initiative Last year, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced its Right of Access Initiative in order to improve enforcement of the right of access requirement under the Federal... Read More
