Healthicity Blog

Ada recently set out to learn how to knit. Knitting is known for bringing a sense of calm joy to practitioners. It’s something to do with your hands, a way to relax, unwind, all while creating interesting gifts (some lovely, some weird) for your friends and loved ones. A table doily, some baby...

340B Drug Pricing Program

The 340B drug pricing program was authorized by Congress in 1992 to generate savings for certain safety-net healthcare providers by allowing them to purchase outpatient drugs at discounted prices. It is estimated that the savings to 340B providers attributable to the...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Reform of Requirements or Long-Term Care Facilities in 2016 with a three-part phased implementation.

1. Three Companies and Their Executives Pay $19.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Pertaining to Rehabilitation Therapy and Hospice Services

Everyone is talking (and panicking) about Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) lately and for good reason: HCCs are progressively being applied to numerous healthcare reform initiatives and it’s pretty confusing.

Most healthcare fraud and abuse cases settle before ever going to trial. However, when they occasionally do go to trial, the outcomes can be as varied as the facts and circumstances of a specific case. A recent trial in Houston didn’t turn out so well for Dr. Ronald Kahn, a Houston physician.

The DOJ just announced its biggest healthcare enforcement action in history. Compliance personnel will definitely want to know the details since over 100 physicians, nurses or other clinicians were individually indicted.

1. Justice Department reaches first settlement with opioid manufacturer - “The Justice Department and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals reached a $35 million settlement Tuesday to resolve allegations that the company failed to report signs that large quantities of its highly addictive oxycodone pills...