Nashville is the healthcare capital of the United States. According to the Nashville Health Care Council, the Middle Tennessee area is home to over 500 healthcare companies with an economic [...]

Co-authored by Chris Sabis, Tracy Powell, and Micah Bradley There has been much discussion in the healthcare industry over many years regarding how healthcare entities and providers can partner [...]

Providers who are out-of-network for a patient’s insurance policy often provide services to the insured patient in emergencies or at in-network medical facilities. When this happens, patients are [...]

Earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee (USAO) announced that it had charged Fadel Alshalabi, the owner and Chief Executive Officer of Spring Hill, [...]

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 [...]