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September 13, 2019
Health Law Weekly

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Caremark Reaches $4.4 Million Settlement of Unauthorized HIV Disclosures Class Action

CMS Should Leverage Error Rate Data to Flag High-Risk Home Health Providers, OIG Says

Dozens Charged in Bay Area Cash-for-Patients Kickback Scheme

Drop In Medicaid Coverage Fuels Uptick in 2018 Uninsurance Rate, Census Bureau Reports

Eleventh Circuit Reverses District Court’s Summary Judgment Order in AseraCare While Simultaneously Adopting Defense-Friendly View of FCA Falsity

Fifth Circuit Holds ERISA Preempts Tennessee Law Barring Anti-Assignment Clauses

GAO Looks at State Strategies to Manage High-Cost Medicaid Beneficiaries

Ninth Circuit Finds State Law Restricting Subrogation Recovery Rights Saved from ERISA Preemption

OCR Focuses on HIPAA Right of Access with First Hospital Settlement

OIG Allows Health Center to Purchase Real Estate from Excluded Individual

OIG Greenlights Online Health Care Directory Using Provider Per-Click or Per-Booking Fees

Owner of Mental Health Firm Facing Charges for Defrauding Medicaid, Paying Kickbacks

Pelosi’s Draft Proposal Opens Calls for Government Drug Price Negotiations

Physician Agrees to over $2 Million Settlement of False Claims Allegations

Purdue Pharma Strikes Tentative Deal to Resolve Opioid Lawsuits

Surgeon Agrees to Settle Kickback Allegations

Telemedicine Company Owner Pleds Guilty to Massive Kickback Scheme to Defraud Medicare

U.S. Court in Florida Says Release in Severance Agreement Bars FCA Retaliation Claim

U.S. Court in Pennsylvania Says Jury Must Consider HCQIA Immunity, Other Claims

U.S. Court in Texas Boots Whistleblower Action for Lack of Specificity
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