On March 7, 2017 the Third Circuit issued its opinion in Doe v. Mercy Catholic Med. Ctr., 16-1247, — F.3d —-, 2017 WL 894455 (3d Cir. Mar. 7, 2017) addressing two matters of first impression in the Third Circuit: (a) whether a hospital’s residency program was an education program under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; and… Read more »
New York State Attorney General, A.G. Schneiderman, has put mobile health application developers on notice – “We won’t tolerate non-evidence-based apps that threaten the wellbeing of New Yorkers”. On March 23, 2017, AG Schneiderman announced settlements with three mobile health application developers after a year-long investigation into the marketing of mobile health applications distributed through… Read more »
Pamela Coyle Brecht will speak on, “Managed Care Fraud: Enforcement and Compliance,” at the HCCA’s 21st Annual Compliance Institute in National Harbor, MD.
When Congress discovered that Great Depression-era employers were scheming to circumvent wage provisions in federal contracts, it enacted the first anti-kickback law, the Copeland Act, in 1931. The statute, which is still good law, prohibits federal building contractors and subcontractors from inducing their workers to “kick back” or return any part of the compensation to… Read more »
Marc Stephen Raspanti will speak on “False Claims Act Developments” at the HCCA’s 21st Annual Compliance Institute in National Harbor, MD.
The State Medical Board of Ohio (SMBO) has released Rules 4731-11-01 and 4731-11-09 which take effect March 23, 2017. As previously reported in , the SMBO has chosen to take an approach consistent with several other states’ more recent statutory/regulatory amendments to their telemedicine rules. That is, rather than delineating a set of specific requirements as… Read more »
A recent decision in the case of Wilson v. TA Operating, LLC, No. 4:14-cv-00771, 2017 WL 569195 (M.D. Pa. Feb. 13, 2017) (Brann, J.), should be an eye-opener for any defendant facing a claim of punitive damages. The facts in Wilson were both tragic and unusual. The decedent-driver experienced a fire in the front brakes of his tractor trailer… Read more »
Articles in This Issue: Superior Court of PA Again Calls on Legislature to Amend Workers’ Compensation Law to Permit an Injured Employee of a Subcontractor to Recover Damages Against a General Contractor Preserving & Collecting Electronically Stored Information for Construction Litigation Is Liquid Concrete Potentially an “Unreasonable Dangerous” Product for Purposes of a Personal Injury… Read more »
Marc Stephen Raspanti and Pamela Coyle Brecht will discuss, “Dealing with States in Complex Health Care Fraud Investigations,” at PBI’s 23rd Annual Health Law Institute. The event takes place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA.
Martin T. Durkin will discuss, “Telemedicine and the Legal Challenges that Keep us from Building a Virtual Mayo Clinic,” at PBI’s 23rd Annual Health Law Institute. The event takes place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA.