Legal & Regulatory Issues

A new white paper entitled "Managing the Growing Risk of FCA Liabilities," provides insight into trends in government enforcement of the False Claims Act and antitrust laws.

In a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has outlined 13 ways HHS can help minimize negative financial, workflow and operational consequences of the Oct. 1, 2015 transition to ICD-10.

The West Virginia Supreme Court has held data breach victims whose information was posted to a publicly accessible website have standing to sue the clinic who experienced the data breach even though no one had suffered any quantifiable economic loss…

Robert A. Glazer, MD, has been indicted for his involvement in a $33 million scheme to defraud Medicare, according to the Department of Justice.

The pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay 44 states and the District of Columbia a total of $105 million to resolve claims the company violated consumer protection laws by marketing drugs for off-label uses, according to the Department of…

An analysis of almost 12,000 medical malpractice claims against emergency departments found 70 percent are closed without a payment to the plaintiff.  That same study identified the top two categories of claims as errors in diagnosis (37 percent) and no…

Public Citizen, an advocacy group, has submitted a petition to HHS seeking to publish a proposed rule requiring that all reports of medical malpractice payments be submitted to the federal government's National Practitioner Data Bank, according to a Bloomberg report.

Chicago is suing Johnson & Johnson and four other drug companies for allegedly creating drug addicts and driving up healthcare costs by using deceptive marketing practices to push consumers to use opioid painkillers, according to a Bloomberg report.

Legislation has been signed into law in Rhode Island that requires all healthcare providers within the state to register with the controlled substances database to help prevent prescription drug abuse.

The federal government has supported regulations to stem physician self referral for nearly 30 years, but a new GAO report finds the volume of services for physicians who self refer grew at a slower rate than those who were not…