Heartache for Cardiac-Monitoring Companies Caught Cheating
Daniel WennerFour cardiac-monitoring companies and one executive agreed to pay more than $13.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they billed Medicare for higher…
Anthem Class Suit Highlights Data Breach Risks
Day PitneyA June 28 article in Bloomberg BNAs Privacy Law Watch and other publications, “Anthem Class Suit Highlights Data Breach Risks,” reported that Anthem Inc.s recent…
Day Pitneys Danielle Corcione was quoted by Law360 in a June 16 article titled “Attys Dish on Escobars FCA Impact One Year Later,” in which…
Day Pitney litigator Mike Furey was quoted in three separate articles in Politico , the New Jersey Law Journal and Law360 regarding his oral argument before…
Ban on Mandatory Arbitration in Nursing Home Contracts May Finally be Dead
Susan HuntingtonOn June 8, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published a proposed rule which, among other things, rescinds a provision in a final rule…
EHR Vendor to Pay $155 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
Eric FaderMassachusetts-based electronic health records (EHR) vendor eClinicalWorks (ECW) and several of its employees will pay nearly $155 million to settle allegations that it violated federal…
St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center Enters into $387,200 HIPAA Settlement
On May 23, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City entered into a…
CareCore National LLC, a healthcare utilization management company, agreed earlier this month to pay $54 million to settle allegations that it allowed its insurance company…
Supreme Court Decision Likely Dooms CMS Rule on Nursing Home Arbitration
On May 15, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Kentucky nursing homes use of mandatory arbitration agreements in nursing home admissions. In a 7-1 ruling,…
Texas Health System Pays $2.4M to Settle Unauthorized Patient Disclosure
A May 11 article, Texas Health System Pays $2.4M to Settle Unauthorized Patient Disclosure, in Bloomberg BNAs Privacy Law Watch and other publications discussed the $2.4…