Federal health regulators are pushing back on two widespread assumptions that have long given healthcare executives a false sense of security: that complying with the Stark law is enough to stay out ...

It’s now 3–1, with the First Circuit (2025) aligning with the Sixth (2023) and Eighth (2022) Circuits finding the meaning of the words “resulting from” — as used in a 2010 amendment to the federal ...

Federal prosecutors said Aditya Humad, finance chief of SpineFrontier, arranged to bribe surgeons to use his company’s ...

In the spring of 2025, two federal courts issued decisions interpreting the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, with one court narrowing the conduct that is prohibited while the other court refused to do ...

In a recent advisory opinion, the Office of Inspector General determined that a hospital shouldn’t be penalized under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute if it provides bonuses to a physician group in ...

Our Health Care Group examines how Minnesota’s new state kickback prohibition differs from the federal statute and could increase risk of enforcement actions under the state’s criminal code. Minnesota ...

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HHS recently released a report that provides observations on the effect healthcare fraud and abuse laws have on the industry’s transition to value-based payment models. HHS released the report ...

TrumpRx is officially launched, and the jury is still out on whether the platform will do much to decrease healthcare costs for most U.S. patients. But as more pharma companies partner with TrumpRx or ...

In a year-end set of new regulations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the HHS Inspector General finalized the Stark law exemption, which allows hospitals to fund up to 85 percent of ...

The executive paid more than $540,000 in bribes masked as consulting fees to steer surgeons toward the company’s products, ...

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