Legal & Regulatory Issues

Below are four recent fraud cases involving Medicare, Medicaid or TRICARE, beginning with the most recent.

President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill aimed at overhauling the Department of Veterans Affairs and the problems plaguing its facilities across the country, according to a Politico report.

The Department of Justice has been putting greater emphasis on the use of non-monetary tools, such as corporate integrity agreements, in False Claims Act enforcement, according to Assistant Attorney General Stuart Delery.

The following is a roundup of recently filed healthcare industry lawsuits and lawsuit updates reported in the last two weeks, beginning with the most recent.

Several of California's largest health systems oppose a state bill that would define and standardize nonprofit hospitals' community benefit, according to a Sacramento Business Journal report.

CMS plans to offer three end-to-end ICD-10 testing opportunities in 2015 to ensure the submission and remittance advice process is working smoothly before the Oct. 1, 2015 transition date.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has agreed to pay more than $98 million to resolve a government investigation over the hospital operator's billing practices.

The Obama administration has asked for a rehearing in a case that held tax subsidies to low- and middle-income Americans may not be provided in states that use health insurance exchanges run by the federal government, according to a Politico…

A final rule from HHS has officially confirmed Oct. 1, 2015 will be the compliance deadline for U.S. healthcare providers to begin using the ICD-10 coding system.

In a 225-201 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution that gives the House GOP authorization to proceed with its lawsuit against President Barack Obama, according to a report from The Hill.