Compliance & Legal

The Medicare Act "prohibits Medicare payment for services that are not furnished within the United States," according to the filing.

The OIG is conducting "significant work" to assess telehealth services during the public health emergency.

Industry regulatory leaders outline the best approaches for digital health companies looking to make sense of FDA's long-in-the-tooth enforcement discretion guidelines.

Experts at the WEDI conference outlined steps for institutions and clinical teams to take toward bringing equity to patient-facing tools.

The Department of Justice described the case as involving one of the "largest healthcare fraud schemes in United States history."

Brooks-LaSure formerly worked for the Obama Administration within CMS and the Department of Health and Human Services.

The report by Foley & Lardner found that 43 states and D.C. have implemented a version of a state telehealth commercial payer law – although payment parity policies lag behind.

The New York health system said an employee, who has been fired, inappropriately accessed electronic health records and viewed clinical information, including test results and diagnoses.

"If the benefits of electronic health records are to be fully realized, patients must be confident providers have selected the most effective system – not the one paying the largest kickbacks," said one federal agent.

Larry Everett Smith is among five defendants who have recently pleaded guilty for their role in a healthcare fraud conspiracy that allegedly lasted for years.