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April 19, 2024
Health Law Weekly

Featured Articles

A Look at Medicare Outlier Payments

Considerations for Integrated Physician Enterprise Performance

New Requirements for Accommodating Pregnant Workers Will Soon Take Effect

  • Jenna Brofsky, Husch Blackwell LLP
  • Eleanor Kittilstad, Husch Blackwell LLP

Practical Recommendations for Compliance with Section 4960

  • Jeffrey W. Kroh, Groom Law Group
  • Michael Z. Cook, Groom Law Group

Current Topics

Antitrust

FTC to Vote April 23 on Rule to Ban Worker Noncompetes

New Public Portal Opens for Reporting Health Care Anticompetitive Practices

Fraud and Compliance

DME Company Manager Charged in Fraud Scheme

Doctor Gets Two Years in Prison, Barred from Practicing Medicine for Unlawful Distribution of Oxycodone

DOJ Launches National Pilot Program to Incentivize Individuals to Disclose White Collar Crime

Nurse Practitioner Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for DME Telemedicine Scheme

Physician Indicted for Selling Opioid Prescriptions for Cash

Physicians Handed Prison Time for Drug Testing Scheme

Tenth Circuit Says Doctor Must Comply with DEA Subpoena

U.S. Court in New York Says First-to-File Bar Doesn’t Apply to Whistleblower Action Against McKesson

Government Reimbursement

Additional Action Needed to Improve Medicare, Medicaid Integrity, GAO Says

Health Information

FTC Alleges Alcohol Addiction Treatment Service Improperly Disclosed Health Data to Third-Parties Via Tracking Technologies

Telehealth Platform to Pay $7 Million over Alleged Improper Data Sharing Practices

Health Insurance

Supreme Court Won’t Weigh Remedies in ERISA Action over Heart Transplant Coverage Denial

Life Sciences

GAO Looks at State Regulation of PBMs

HHS Finalizes Revisions to 340B Dispute Resolution Process

Medical Staff, Credentialing, and Peer Review

New Jersey Supreme Court Orders New Trial in Privileging Row After Nixing $24 Million Award to Neurosurgeons

Patient Care Liability and Litigation

Washington Supreme Court Says Hospital May Be Liable for Contractor ER Doctors’ Negligence

Reproductive Health Law Hub

OMB Clears Final Rule on HIPAA Privacy Protections for Reproductive Health Information
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