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The Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued two notable compliance updates today, of which health care organizations should take note as the COVID-19 public health emergency ends and...

The Department of Justice and other federal enforcement agencies continued to hotly pursue individuals and entities involved in criminal telefraud schemes in 2022, as evidenced...

Department of Justice and other federal enforcement agencies continued to pursue criminal telefraud schemes in 2022, evidenced by national coordinated law enforcement action announced on July 20, 2022, indictments, pleas, and convictions related to telefraud schemes.

Note From the Editors - We bring you Vital Signs, a curated, one-stop resource on the most notable digital health law updates from our U.S. and global contributors. In...

We bring you Vital Signs, a curated, one-stop resource on the most notable digital health law updates from our U.S. and…

Introduction - On 6 December 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued a report (Report) that summarized findings of HHS-OIG’s...

Recently, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) for the Department of Health and Human Services published its Report on Medicare Telehealth Services During the First Year of the...

Recently, the Office of Inspector General ("OIG") for the Department of Health and Human Services published its Report on Medicare Telehealth Services During the First Year of the Pandemic...

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Jan. 31, 2020, public health emergency declaration that followed pushed those of us working in the life sciences and health care...

On September 2, 2022, OIG published a report of its findings summarizing its investigation into whether providers appropriately billed for Medicare beneficiaries’ telehealth services....