A criminal conviction relating to health care will result in an exclusion from Medicare and related health care programs. The length of the exclusion imposed depends on a variety of factors. Thinking about how to mitigate the impact of an exclusion... Read More
As we predicted in our Client Alert last week, the expiration of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) on December 31, 2020 leaves employers nationwide in a lurch, for the most recent pandemic relief package signed by the... Read More
Despite the continuing increase in COVID-19 cases and the limit on gatherings, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) will expire on December 31, 2020. Enacted in March 2020, the FFCRA provided extra expanded leave entitlements to... Read More
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published the long-awaited new rules related to the Anti-Kickback Statute, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, and the Stark Law (collectively, the “Final Rules”). The Final Rules are part of... Read More
At a court hearing on November 24, 2020, a bankruptcy judge approved a settlement entered in late October between Purdue Pharma L.P. (“Purdue”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), under which Purdue Pharma L.P. plead guilty in New Jersey... Read More
On December 9th, a four-judge panel in the Appellate Court in New York's Second Department unanimously ruled that the MLMIC Buyout Proceeds from the sale and demutualization of the State's largest medical malpractice insurer, the Medical Liability... Read More
Medical Practice “Super Groups” have proliferated over the past several years because, if formed properly, they provide many advantages over traditional practice structures in the face of the paradigm shift that is occurring in the delivery of... Read More
On October 29, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services announced its decision to extend compliance with most “information blocking” requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act from November 2, 2020 to April 5, 2021, as reflected in an... Read More
In today’s New York Law Journal, Frier Levitt attorney Joel M. Greenberg, Esq. discusses two recent appellate decisions that determined that the proceeds from the sale and demutualization of New York’s largest medical malpractice carrier, the... Read More
