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May 5, 2023
Health Law Weekly

Featured Articles

Applicability of FDA Food Traceability Final Rule to Health Care Entities

  • Mike Roitero, Corewell Health
  • Sukriti Saxena-Meads, Corewell Health

OIG to Modernize Process for Issuing Compliance Program Guidance

  • Jessica Robinson Hanna, Hogan Lovells US LLP

Trends and Developments in Director/Officer Liability Podcast Series

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Fraud and Compliance

Doctor Pleads Guilty to $925,000 Medicare Fraud Scheme

Marketing Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Kickback Conspiracy

Pharmacy Owners Indicted for $29 Million Fraud Conspiracy

Physician Handed 20 Years in Prison for Illegal Opioid Distribution, Fraud

Physician Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Fraud Scheme

Plastic Surgeon Agrees to Pay Nearly $24 Million to Settle Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Allegations

Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty to Making False Statements

Radiologist Charged with Performing Unnecessary Procedures

Two Physicians and Their Medical Practice to Pay $1 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

Government Reimbursement

OIG: CMS Improperly Paid $580 Million for Psychotherapy Services During First Year of COVID-19 PHE

Health Care Finance and Transactions

CVS Completes Oak Street Health Acquisition

Option Care Health to Acquire Amedisys in $3.6 Billion Merger Deal

Health Information

Data Broker Kochava Evades FTC Action over Sale of Mobile Geolocation Data

DEA to Extend Telehealth Rules for Controlled Substance Prescribing

New Jersey Appeals Court Confirms Merck’s Win in Action Seeking Insurance Coverage for Cybersecurity Attack

Health Insurance

Fifth Circuit Finds Blue Cross’ Denial of Cancer Therapy was Arbitrary, Orders Insurer to Pay

No Surprises Act Payment Disputes Top 334,000 in First Year, CMS Reports

Health Policy and Administration

U.S. Supreme Court to Review Case Challenging Chevron Deference

Life Sciences

West Virginia Reaches $68 Million Opioid Settlement with Kroger

Patient Care Liability and Litigation

Wisconsin Supreme Court Says Hospital Can’t Be Compelled to Administer Ivermectin to COVID Patient

Reproductive Health Law Hub

Two Hospitals Subject of Federal Probe over Alleged Denial of Emergency Abortion Care

U.S. Court in West Virginia Allows Generic Drug Maker’s Challenge to State’s Abortion Ban to Proceed
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