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Abt Associates named Clint Eisenhower as CMS and State Medicaid Digital Director to lead the digital solutions and data analytics for Abt’s CMS programs, as well as support digital growth in state and local governments. Eisenhower is an executive leader with more than two decades of experience in state and federal government agencies and a veteran of ...

US Department of Health and Human Services HHS Office of the Inspector General shared analysis of telehealth services covered by Medicare, related program integrity risks. Of 742,000 providers evaluated, 1,714 had concerning billing on at least one of seven fraud measures.

By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.

In support of the American Telemedicine Association's Telehealth Awareness Week (September 18-24, 2022), Jones Day's Digital Health team shared key insights on various legal topics...

Policymakers should reform the Higher Education Act in a manner that more closely aligns the law with its main purpose of allocating federal student loans and grants to ease the cost of higher education, and should eliminate the numerous programs that have accumulated over the years that have failed to help low-income students pay for college.

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....

Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and...

​​​​​​​As part of the Federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the coverage of telehealth services by Medicare was greatly expanded by CMS through the COVID-19 telehealth...

As part of the Federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the coverage of telehealth services by Medicare was greatly expanded by CMS through...