25 Jul, 2024 Chevron Overruled: A New Era of Regulatory Complexity for Healthcare and Pharma By Mike Ruggio The June 2024 Supreme Court decision overturning the Chevron deference doctrine marks a substantial shift in the regulatory landscape for...
18 Jul, 2024 Court Tosses HHS Rule about Online Tracker Privacy By Mitzi Hill In recent years, lots of litigation has claimed the online trackers such as the Meta pixel violate HIPAA (and other federal and state...
18 Jul, 2024 Telehealth and the EHR: Allies in Fraud Prevention By Mike Ruggio The expansion of telehealth, while offering undeniable benefits for access to care, necessitates a heightened focus on fraud prevention....
16 Jul, 2024 Telehealth's Untapped Frontier: Addressing Fraud Risks in Geographically Dispersed Care By Mike Ruggio Telehealth's ability to connect patients and providers across vast distances brings undeniable benefits. However, this very advantage...
11 Jul, 2024 Focus on Medicare Advantage (MA) Programs: Addressing DOJ Scrutiny By Mike Ruggio The Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to make investigating and prosecuting fraud within Medicare Advantage (MA) programs a priority....
09 Jul, 2024 The Balancing Act: AI Innovation and Legal Compliance in Healthcare By Mike Ruggio AI’s revolution of healthcare could be a potential legal minefield as regulators are struggling to define clear compliance frameworks....
27 Jun, 2024 Beyond Policies: Building a Compliance Culture to Catch Unwitting Fraud in Healthcare By Mike Ruggio The healthcare sector's exponential growth continues and the latest projections from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
25 Jun, 2024 HHS Final Rule on Information Blocking Includes Penalties By Mike Ruggio The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has finalized a rule implementing penalties for healthcare providers who engage in...
14 May, 2024 Federal Cyber Standards Coming to a Hospital Near You? By Mitzi Hill The White House is set to require baseline cybersecurity standards for hospitals, according to news reports in mid-May. The move is a...
09 May, 2024 Paging: I, (Dr.) Robot? By Mitzi Hill Attached is a very interesting article about efforts at Johns Hopkins to use AI in conjunction with EHR and patient communication tasks....
02 May, 2024 Taylor English Continues Expansion in Atlanta with the Addition of Two Partners By Taylor English ATLANTA (April 30, 2024) – Taylor English Duma LLP announced today that Matthew McKagen and Amanda Speier have joined the firm’s Atlanta...
02 May, 2024 CISA To Propose Cyber Incident Reporting Rules that Will Affect Healthcare By Mitzi Hill The country's cyber watchdog regulatory agency, CISA, plans to conduct a rule-making regarding proposed cyber incident reporting rules...