On October 6, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule for Stage 3 of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program. In the final rule, CMS specifies the criteria for eligible professionals (EPs) and
On October 6, 2015, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued guidance addressing its policy on the offer of electronic health record (EHR) technology that is purposefully limited in interoperability among providers. OIG’s guidance, entitled “OIG Policy Reminder:
In his State of the Union address this year, President Obama announced that he’s launching the Precision Medicine Initiative — a bold new research effort to revolutionize how we improve health and treat disease. The goal of this initiative is
On October 5, 2015, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) unveiled a new resource to provide mobile health (mHealth) developers guidance on complying with Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements applicable to those organizations. The portal permits
Although the trend of ever-larger FCA recoveries by the DOJ is not new, what is new is a recent trend by federal district courts to make it even easier for the government to prove cases against healthcare defendants by allowing
On Tuesday, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to hear an appeal of a False Claims Act (FCA) case that raises the question of whether statistical sampling and data extrapolation can be used to prove liability without other claim-by-claim