Legal Updates

• Attorney: Dowell, Michael A.

53 matches.

• OIG Advisory Opinion 25-03: Navigating Anti-Kickback Rules and Safe Harbors in Telehealth Contractual Arrangements
  Health Care Alert
  June 30, 2025
• OIG Advisory Opinion 25-02 Integrates Community Health Center Social Support Services with Primary Care Referral Programs
  Health Care Alert
  May 20, 2025
• Beyond the Glow: Key Medical Spa Compliance Challenges and Legal Pitfalls
  Health Care Alert
  April 24, 2025
• Healthcare Providers, Agents, and Brokers: Please Stop, Look, and Listen Before Entering Into Suspect Medicare Advantage Plan Marketing Arrangements
  Health Care Alert
  January 6, 2025
• Don’t Jeopardize Your License: Ensure Compliance With California State Board of Pharmacy Notification and Reporting Obligations
  Health Care Alert
  September 5, 2024
• California Prohibits PBM Discriminatory Practices Against 340B Program Covered Entities and Contract Pharmacies
  Health Care Alert
  December 15, 2023
• California Expands "No Pharmacist Left Alone" Pharmacy Staffing Requirements and Also Enacts New Safety Measures
  Health Care Alert
  November 17, 2023
• Federally Qualified Health Center Provider Referral Contracts and Arrangements
  Health Care Alert
  March 31, 2023
• OIG Permits Health System and Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike Collaboration Agreement Restructuring Which Includes Forgiveness of Debt, Free Medical Office Space, and Free Medical Office Furnishings and Equipment
  Health Care Alert
  January 12, 2023
• The OIG Issues Special Fraud Alert Identifying "Suspect" Telemedicine Contract Arrangements
  Health Care Alert
  August 3, 2022
• OIG Advisory Opinion 22-08 Permits a Federally Qualified Health Center to Provide Smartphones to Patients to Promote Access to Telehealth and Social Isolation/Loneliness Benefits
  Health Care Alert
  May 20, 2022
• Laboratory Testing Presents Business Opportunities for Community Pharmacies
  Health Care Alert
  January 11, 2022
• New California Law Prohibits Chain Community Pharmacy Productivity Quotas for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
  Health Care Alert
  October 27, 2021
• California Appellate Court Rules That Federally Qualified Health Center Outreach Expenses Do Not Qualify For Cost-Based Reimbursement
  Health Care Alert
  September 29, 2021
• New OIG Guidance Permits Federally Qualified Health Centers to Offer Remote Patient Monitoring, Big-Box Store Gift Cards, and Other Incentives to Medicare and Medicaid Patients
  Health Care Alert
  February 22, 2021
• Change is on the Horizon for 340B Pharmacy Program's Administrative Dispute Resolution Process
  Health Care Alert
  December 21, 2020
• Attention Pharmacies and Prescribers: New California Controlled Substances Prescription Form and CURES Reporting Requirements Are Coming
  Health Care Alert
  November 19, 2020
• California Board of Pharmacy Approves "No Pharmacist Left Alone" Regulations for Retail Pharmacy Chains
  Health Care Alert
  September 21, 2020
• Federally Qualified Health Center Agrees to Settlement for Failure to Implement
  Health Care Alert
  August 26, 2020
• OPA Program Update 2020 Highlights Changes to 340B Program Registration and Recertification Requirements
  Health Care Alert
  August 13, 2020
• Guidance for Protecting Pharmacy Staff and Customers from COVID-19
  Health Care Alert
  May 14, 2020
• COVID-19 Compliance Issues For Federally Qualified Health Centers
  Health Care Alert
  April 9, 2020
• California Board of Pharmacy COVID-19 Waivers
  Health Care Alert
  April 9, 2020
• DEA Waives Telemedicine and Other Rules for Controlled Substances
  Health Care Alert
  April 3, 2020
• Medicare Telehealth COVID-19 Waivers Expand Opportunities to Provide Telehealth Services to Medicare Beneficiaries
  Health Care Alert
  April 3, 2020
• Health Care Deregulation and Financial Relief Measures Amidst the Pandemic
  Health Care Alert
  April 3, 2020
• CMS Revises and Updates Requirements for the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
  Health Care Alert
  July 29, 2019
• Small Breaches Matter Too: OCR Broadens HIPAA Breach Investigations
  Health Care Alert
  August 26, 2016
• Pharmacies and Prescription Drug Dispensers...Are You Ready for The March 1, 2016 DSCSA Compliance Deadline?
  Health Care Alert
  February 23, 2016
• CMS Proposes New Stark Exceptions and Clarifications
  Health Care Alert
  August 25, 2015
• Physicians Beware: Identity Theft Is On The Rise
  Health Care Alert
  June 4, 2014
• HHS Releases HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Tool
  Health Care Alert
  April 14, 2014
• Stark Law Violations Stemming from Improper Incentive Compensation Paid to Employed Physicians Result in $85 Million Settlement
  Health Care Alert
  April 7, 2014
• Fewer Than 90 Days and Counting . . . Are You Ready for the HIPAA Compliance Deadline?
  Health Care Alert
  July 3, 2013
• OIG Fraud Alert on Physician Owned Distributorships (PODs)
  Health Care Alert
  April 2, 2013
• New Requirements for HIPAA Notices of Privacy Practices
  Health Care Alert
  February 11, 2013
• New HIPAA Requirements for Business Associates and Their Subcontractors
  Health Care Alert
  February 1, 2013
• HHS Modifies HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement and Breach Notification Rules
  Health Care Alert
  January 24, 2013
• Federal Court Rejects Challenge to Physician-Owned Hospital Restrictions
  Health Care Alert
  August 23, 2012
• HIPAA Privacy and Security HITECH Act Enforcement Actions Begin
  Health Care Alert
  April 11, 2012
• HHS Adopts HIPAA Standards for Electronic Funds Transfers
  Health Care Alert
  January 23, 2012
• CMS Posts Accountable Care Organization Final Rule
  Health Care Alert
  October 26, 2011
• New Business Opportunity for Health Care Providers: The Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative
  Hinshaw Alert
  September 27, 2011
• Accountable Care Organization Data Sharing
  Health Care Alert
  May 19, 2011
• Accountable Care Organization Application Requirements
  Health Care Alert
  May 11, 2011
• Accountable Care Organization Overview
  Health Care Alert
  May 5, 2011
• 2011 OIG Work Plan Targets New Risk Areas for Hospitals
  Health Care Alert
  October 20, 2010
• New Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplier Standards May Require Operational Changes
  Health Care Alert
  September 21, 2010
• Achieving "Meaningful Use" for Electronic Health Records and Financial Incentive Payments
  Health Care Alert
  August 5, 2010
• The Impact of Health Care Reform on Medicare Advantage Plans and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans
  Health Care Alert
  May 18, 2010
• The Impact of Health Care Reform on Community Health Centers
  Health Care Alert
  April 19, 2010
• February 17, 2010, Deadline for Implementing HIPAA Privacy Rule Amendments and HIPAA Business Associate Compliance
  Health Care Alert
  February 9, 2010
• RAC Implementation Beginning January 10, 2010
  Health Care Alert
  January 7, 2010