On November 16, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued its first Special Fraud Alert (SFA) in over six years. The SFA addresses speaker [...]

Over the last few months, I have written and spoken a fair amount about electronic health records (EHR) systems. For example, in March, I wrote about how EHRs are increasingly targets of [...]

Under the False Claims Act (FCA), the United States gets an initial 60-day period to determine whether to intervene in a whistleblower’s qui tam action, during which time the complaint remains [...]

There’s an old saying that goes something like this:  “I don’t mind spending your money, or their money.  But, when it comes to you spending my money, well that is a different thing altogether [...]

Note:   This is the fourth in a series of posts that will examine various aspects of drafting and negotiating physician employment agreements in detail.  The first post addressed initial [...]

In September 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) established the Voluntary Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (“SRDP”) in response to the Patient Protection and [...]

Note:   This is the third in a series of posts that will examine various aspects of drafting and negotiating physician employment agreements in detail.  The first post addressed initial [...]

This blog post is a summary of a recent Webinar jointly sponsored by the ABA Center for Professional Development and the ABA Health Law Section on Thursday, October 9, 2014.  Tracy Powell, a [...]

As you may know, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) imposes standards for the use and disclosure of protected health information (“PHI”) through its privacy [...]

Note:   This is the second in a series of posts that will examine various aspects of drafting and negotiating physician employment agreements in detail.  The first post addressed initial [...]