On Monday, January 31, 2022, Pietragallo partner Pamela Coyle Brecht will be presenting on “The Dos and Don’ts of Medicare Advantage and Medicaid Managed Care: Lessons from Recent Enforcement Activity” at the HCCA’s Managed Care Compliance Conference. This is an annual event for individuals who manage compliance at health plan providers. Learn the latest practices,… Read more »
Pietragallo partner Timothy Hazel has been appointed the Board Chair of the Allegheny County Board of Property Assessment Appeals and Review (BPAAR). Tim will serve as the Board Chair for a one-year term. The BPAAR is oversees assessment appeals and certify assessment appeal decisions concerning: the valuations of real property used by taxing authorities within… Read more »
Part 1 of this article series, published in the November 2021 issue of Compliance Today, outlined in general the American and Italian healthcare systems. Part 2, published in the December 2021 issue, outlined America’s primary healthcare fraud laws. Part 3 of this series outlines the Italian healthcare enforcement regime, criminal law, and the Anti-Corruption Act…. Read more »
Takeaway: For most companies, following the SHIELD or FTC practices are sufficient to establish a reasonable security program that should protect companies from civil liability or penalty. But companies storing large amounts of personal information, or valuable proprietary information, should consider even greater controls and protections. Robinhood, a stock trading platform, was recently sued in… Read more »
Part 1 of this article series, published in the November 2021 issue of Compliance Today, outlined in general the American and Italian healthcare systems. Part 2 outlines America’s primary healthcare fraud laws. Part 3 of this series, to be published in the January 2022 issue of Compliance Today, will outline Italy’s fraud and abuse laws. In America,… Read more »
On Wednesday, November 10, Pietragallo partner Michael Morse will present on Laboratory Enforcement and Compliance at the 2021 HCCA Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference. His panel will review recent case studies with a discussion of what those cases tell us about risks related to medical necessity and arrangements, discuss practical solutions and best practices for mitigating risk, and… Read more »
This is Part 1 of a three-part series discussing the similarities and differences between the US and Italian healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse laws. Part 2 of this series will be published in the December issue of Compliance Today, and Part 3 will be published in January 2022 issue of the magazine. The United States of… Read more »
Whether it is your job, a new relationship or for any other reason, relocation is a tricky issue. Pennsylvania has a stringent relocation statute, 23 Pa.C.S.A. § 5337, which creates a protocol to follow in order to accomplish a relocation. The first step is to determine whether the move constitutes a relocation. A relocation is… Read more »
Takeaway: The Department of Justice will use the False Claims Act as the basis for exacting civil penalties against companies who’ve fraudulently procured federal dollars while knowingly choosing to permit business practices with unacceptable cybersecurity risk. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is getting aggressive with cyber fraud. Lisa O. Monaco, the DOJ’s Deputy Attorney General… Read more »
Companies and consumers alike are under perpetual assault from bad actors as IoT, work from home, and cloud migration – all intended to improve productivity – have expanded the cyber attack surface. The continually evolving privacy legislation and cyber regulation requires companies to adapt and comply with collection, use, retention, and disclosure of personal information,… Read more »