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As discussed in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) 2009 final rule (final rule) published in the August 19, 2008 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving forward with its Disclosure of Financial Relationships Report (DFRR) initiative, the purpose of which is to assess compliance with the Stark law by requiring surveyed hospitals to provide detailed information about their ownership, investment, and compensation arrangements with physicians.

On October 9, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services released two separate, but related, proposed rules as part of its "Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care."

On July 2, 2007, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the proposed 2008 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule ("MPFS"). As usual, a vast majority of the proposed rules pertain to changes in the MPFS that will go into effect January 1, 2008.

While there is now a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel in CEE and SEE, the second quarter of 2021 again brought many changes and challenges in the region's finance sector.

This is the seventh and last post in our start-of-year series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year.

April is a big month for Game of Thrones (GoT) fans: GoT's eighth and final season is set to premiere on April 14.

The plaintiff, Caroline Guzman, was a 911 dispatcher for a county government. The county government provided dispatch services for nine police departments, 18 fire departments, and two EMS agencies.

I have two teenage sons, so I've watched all that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has to offer. ("Sure, blame it on the kids, dork." "Shut up, Internal Monologue—this doesn't concern you.")

The number of far-reaching and burdensome False Claims Act (FCA) decisions increases by the day. In an August 14, 2015 order by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, a whistleblower's complaint survived a motion to dismiss based upon some rather attenuated allegations.

As reimbursement is changing to reward for value and quality of care, hospitals and physicians have found themselves being incentivized to become more closely aligned.

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health has approved the following seven bipartisan bills addressing the Medicare Part B program:

On November 8, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) updated (for the first time in years) and ...

Mintz Levin's Health Care Enforcement Defense Practice has published its most recent Qui Tam Update, analyzing overall trends in 36 recently unsealed health care related whistleblower cases.

The United States District Court for the District of Delaware announced that, effective February 3, 2017, the Honorable Sue L. Robinson, transitioned to Senior Judge.

On May 26, 2017, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware announced new procedures for assigning cases and handling case-dispositive issues.

Relators trying to file FCA cases need specific and well-detailed pleadings. That was the Third Circuit's lesson when it recently affirmed a district court's decision to dismiss an FCA case...

The current Medicare physician self-referral law (the "Stark Law") is potentially implicated by any payment made to a physician under pay-for-performance ("P4P"), gainsharing and other similar quality improvement and cost saving incentive programs.

MACRA, which took effect January 1 of this year, sends a dramatic signal that providers must embrace the new value-based paradigm.