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October 23, 2020
Health Law Weekly

Featured Articles

COVID-19 Updates and Developments (Week of October 19)

Executive Order 13891: How HHS is Implementing Regulatory Reform

New FDA Rules Permit States to Import Drugs from Canada

  • Jason Reddish, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP

Current Topics

Fraud and Compliance

Counselor Charged with Defrauding Connecticut’s Medicaid Program for Bogus Psychotherapy Sessions

Fifth Circuit Affirms Health Care Fraud Convictions

Medical Assistant Admits Role in Genetic Testing Kickback Scheme

Pharmacy Employee Pleads Guilty for Scheming to Defraud Medicare, Medicaid

Two Indicted for Participating in Kickback Schemes

Government Reimbursement

CMS Delays Radiation Oncology Model for Six Months

CMS Gives Nod to Nebraska’s Two-Tiered Medicaid Expansion

Sixth Circuit Revives DaVita’s MSPA, ERISA Claims Against Plan for Allegedly Discriminating Against Dialysis Patients

Health Information

U.S. Court in California Nixes Patient’s Negligence, Contract Claims Against Hospital for Data Breach

Health Insurance

CMS: ACA Marketplace Premiums Down for Third-Straight Year

Eleventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Challenge to Insurer’s Policy for Reviewing Emergency Services Claims

Health Policy and Administration

Health Centers Sue HHS as Dispute with Drug Makers over 340B Program Ramps up

Life Sciences

Purdue Pharma to Plead Guilty, Pay $8.3 Billion to Resolve Federal Probes over Opioid Marketing

Medical Staff, Credentialing, and Peer Review

U.S. Court in New Jersey Refuses to Seal Court Information Containing NPDB Report

Patient Care Liability and Litigation

U.S. Court in Puerto Rico Dismisses EMTALA Claims

Tax and Nonprofit

GAO Flags Improvements for Hospital Community Benefit Oversight
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