Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP Partner Pamela Coyle Brecht will be presenting at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s (“PBI”) Health Law Institute on March 11-12, 2020. Ms. Brecht’s session topic is, “The False Claims Act Update.” The PBI notes that the Health Law Institute is, “The event of the year for every health law… Read more »
What Happened: As federal payors move away, with increasing speed, from fee-for-service payments toward value-based payment reforms, CMS and HHS-OIG released, on October 9, 2019, proposed Stark Law Exceptions and Anti-Kickback Statute Safe Harbors to better permit health care providers to engage in coordinated care reimbursed by these value-based payments. The proposed Rules remove “potential… Read more »
Pamela Coyle Brecht will be presenting at the Health Care Compliance Association’s 24th Annual Compliance Institute in Nashville, Tennessee on March 30, 2020. The title of Ms. Brecht’s presentation is, “Healthcare Private Equity, Moving Into the Government’s Crosshairs.” Private equity (PE), through mergers and acquisitions, has moved into the healthcare space in a very big… Read more »
Best Lawyers® has named seven Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP lawyers in its newly released The Best Lawyers in America 2020 guide. The rankings are based entirely on peer-review content, designed to capture the consensus opinion of leading lawyers on the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same practice area and region. The… Read more »
On October 23, 2019, Pietragallo Partner Michael A. Morse, in association with the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) will lead a webinar titled, “Supreme Court Delivers Important Victory for qui tam Whistleblowers.” During this webinar, attendees will: Learn about the Supreme Court’s latest FCA decision, which delivered two important victories for whistleblowers Discuss the Supreme… Read more »
Pamela Coyle Brecht has been invited to speak on a panel at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s “A Day on Health Law” event which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, in Philadelphia. Ms. Brecht will be a part of the program titled “False Claims Act Update.” The number of False Claims Act… Read more »
Michael A. Morse will present at the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants on June 11, 2019 in Malvern, PA. His presentation, “Do your Ethics Policies address Fraud, Waste and Abuse?” will address CPA’s Ethical Obligations, Elements of an Effective Healthcare FWA Program, Federal/State Health Care Fraud Statutes, and more. For more information and to… Read more »
Marc Stephen Raspanti will be speaking at the Fraud and Compliance Forum. His topic for presentation is on Medical Necessity and The False Claims Act. His co-presenters include John-David H. Thomas, J. Reginald Hill, and Jessica Sievert. The name of the presentation is titled, “Medical Necessity and the False Claims Act – Lions and Tigers and… Read more »
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 »