CJ Wolf
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...
Healthicity
1. Three Companies and Their Executives Pay $19.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Pertaining to Rehabilitation Therapy and Hospice Services
CJ Wolf
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.
CJ Wolf
On July 13, 2017, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the largest healthcare fraud takedown in history.
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1. Genesis Healthcare agrees to pay $53.6M to settle fraud allegation - “Pennsylvania-based Genesis Healthcare Inc. has agreed to pay the federal government $53.6 million to settle six False Claims Act lawsuits that accused the company of defrauding government healthcare programs.
CJ Wolf
In 2009, the HITECH Act was passed as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It provided the authority for the government to establish the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (HER) incentive programs to promote the adoption of EHRs.
CJ Wolf
We all “report up” to somebody at some point and that goes for the OIG, too, in their regular reports to Congress. Recently, the OIG submitted its Semiannual Report to Congress for the period of Oct. 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017.
Healthicity
1. Retina surgeon’s AMD regimen at center of Medicare fraud case: Earlier this month, a jury convicted West Palm Beach retina surgeon Solomon Melgen, MD, on 67 counts of Medicare fraud.
