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Category Archives: Compliance
Assistance with Rules Requiring Emergency Power
Emergency rules requiring emergency power sufficient to maintain an ambient temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit or below for 96 hours in nursing homes and assisted living facilities have just been announced. All nursing homes and assisted living facilities MUST submit an … Continue reading
Posted in Care Delivery, Compliance, David Miller, Douglas Mannheimer, Frank Rainer, Jay Adams, John Loar, Joshua Brian, Leonard Collins, Uncategorized
Tagged ALF, assisted living facilities, Broad and Cassel, Broad and Cassel Health Law Practice Group, client, compliance, emergency power, generator, notification of compliance, nursing homes, regulations, variance petition
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How helping whistle-blowers could cut health-care costs
By: Warren Richey, Staff Writer for The Christian Science Monitor Elin Baklid-Kunz never wanted to be a whistle-blower. But working as the compliance officer at a Florida hospital, she was charged with identifying and correcting potential violations of US health-care … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance, Gabriel Imperato
Tagged Broad and Cassel, Florida, Florida health care, health law, Whistleblower
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Compliance Program Training for Your Board of Directors: What You Need to Know
By: Anne Novick Branan Members of the Board of Directors[1] for health care organizations have important responsibilities related to corporate compliance. Government regulators expect health care Boards to assume greater responsibility to provide oversight for the corporate compliance programs and … Continue reading
Posted in Anne Novick Branan, Compliance
Tagged board of directors, Broad and Cassel Health Law Practice Group, compliance, compliance program, corporate integrity agreements, health law, health law florida, Office of Inspector General
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Compliance Leaders Offer Sound Advice at Orlando Health Care Forum
ORLANDO, Fla. (May 4, 2017) – The risks to Florida health care providers from enforcement activity is at an all-time high. But, how do providers develop and maintain a culture of compliance? It starts at the top, according to attorneys … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance, Health Forum
Tagged Broad and Cassel, Broad and Cassel Health Forum, Broad and Cassel Health Law Practice Group, compliance, health care, health law florida, Health Law Practice Group, health plan overpayments, Whistleblower
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Providers Attesting to Their Compliance With Meaningful Use Need to Ensure That They Truly Protected Their Electronic Health Information
By Gabriel Imperato and Paul R. DeMuro Providers are starting to get notices from the government that they have not met the Meaningful Use requirement with respect to protecting electronic health information. They have attested that they have and thus, … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance, Gabriel Imperato, Paul DeMuro
Tagged Broad and Cassel, Broad and Cassel Health Law Practice Group, certified EHR technology, Florida, Florida law, health care, health law, healthcare, privacy, technology
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Does Ability to Pay Count for Anything Any More?
By: Benton Curtis Through the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report (the “HCFAC”), the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) annually trot out their most recent efforts to combat health care fraud … Continue reading
Posted in Benton Curtis, Compliance, Fraud/Abuse
Tagged Broad and Cassel, Broad and Cassel Health Law Practice Group, Deputy Attorney General, False Claims Act, FCA, Florida health care, HCFAC, health care, Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report, healthcare, Yates Memo
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A Roadmap to Licensure Investigations
By: Vanessa Reynolds For healthcare practitioners, few events are as anxiety-provoking as a professional licensure complaint and investigation. Even if a complaint is ultimately determined to be unfounded, responding is time-consuming and can be disruptive to a practice. The Florida … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance, Regulatory, Vanessa Reynolds
Tagged ALJ, Broad and Cassel, Broad and Cassel Health Law Practice Group, complaint, Florida, Florida Department of Health, Florida health care, Florida health law, health care, health law, healthcare, licensure, licensure investigations, patient complaint
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Mount Sinai Affiliated Hospitals to Pay $3 Million Settlement for Delaying Medicaid Overpayments
By: Fred Segal On August 24, 2016, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced that it settled a whistleblower … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance, Fred Segal, Regulatory
Tagged 60-Day Rule, Broad and Cassel, CMS, compliance, health law, Health Law Practice Group, HHS, Medicaid, New York, Obamacare, OIG, PPACA, regulatory, Whistleblower
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Supreme Court Upholds the False Claims Act Implied Certification Theory
By: Stephen Siegel The following article was published in the July 2016 edition of South Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report. TREBLE DAMAGES PLUS A PENALTY of as much as $11,000 per claim; that is the exposure a physician, hospital … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance, Fraud/Abuse, Stephen Siegel
Tagged billing, Broad and Cassel Health Law Practice Group, compliance, False Claims Act, FCA, fraud, health law, healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, South Florida Hospital News, Supreme Court, Whistleblower
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Board oversight: Fiduciary duty of care and individual liability
By: Gabriel Imperato and Joseph Picone Directors of healthcare organizations have important responsibilities relating to corporate compliance requirements that are unique to the healthcare industry. The risks of non-compliance have grown dramatically over the last decade for healthcare organizations as … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance, Gabriel Imperato, Joseph Picone
Tagged board members, Broad and Cassel, CIAs, compliance violations, corporate integrity agreements, False Claims Act, fiduciary obligations, Florida, HCCA, Health Care Compliance Association, health law, healthcare, liability, OIG-HHS, oversight, protected activity, unlawful, whistleblowers
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