tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2016 Issue 19

CMPs: Crunch Time: FCA, Stark, Anti-Kickback, HIPAA & EMTALA Get Teeth

Compliance blunders just got more expensive. ICYMI:HHS, CMS, OIG and other health care agencies have dramatically increased civil monetary penalties for violating several major health care laws, including the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The new CMPs appear in an interim final rule published in theFederal Registeron September 6 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/09/06/2016-18680/adjustment-of-civil-monetary-penalties-for-inflation). The rule describes the increases as “adjustments” for inflation — in some cases, nearly 40 years of inflation, health care attorneys at Arent Foxnote wryly in a recent blog...

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