Mar 18, 2020 | COVID-19 Related Law, General, Health Care, HIPAA
Trump Administration Loosens Telehealth and HIPAA Rules to Help Combat COVID-19 Crisis Earlier today, March 17, 2020, the Trump administration announced that, due to the COVID-19 crisis, Medicare providers may now use phone and video conference, including FaceTime and...
Feb 21, 2020 | Medicare and Medicaid
On February 11, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its findings of a recent audit into Medicare Part D eligibility verification transactions (E1 transactions). Because E1 transactions contain beneficiary...
Feb 21, 2020 | Health Care
In a press release issued last month, the Department of Justice announced its first criminal prosecution under the Eliminating Kickback in Recovery Act (EKRA). Defendant Theresa Merced – who is 80 years old – pled guilty and admitted to soliciting kickbacks from a...
Feb 21, 2020 | Employment Law
On February 11, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) sued Yale New Haven Hospital, Inc., the teaching hospital of Yale School of Medicine. The EEOC alleges that Yale New Haven’s Late Career Practitioner Policy violates the American with...
Jan 17, 2020 | Health Care
On January 15, 2020, a federal jury found Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada, a Texas rheumatologist, guilty for his participation in a $325 million health care fraud scheme. Dr. Zamora-Quezada was indicted on May 9, 2018, for, amongst other crimes, health care fraud,...
Jan 17, 2020 | Employment Law
In January 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) settled a 2016 lawsuit against Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Jackson National Life Distributors, LLC, and Jackson National Life Insurance Company of New York (collectively,...
