Compliance News
By HHS News releases on Friday, July 29, 2022.
HHS in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, announced an agreement to purchase 66 million doses of Moderna's bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster.
By US Department of Justice, News on Friday, July 29, 2022.
Red Deer Exhaust Inc. (doing business as Flo~Pro Performance Exhaust) and Thunder Diesel & Performance Company have agreed to stop selling devices that bypass or disable vehicle emissions control systems, and pay a $1.6 million penalty, to resolve allegations that they violated the Clean Air Act (CAA).
By US Department of Justice, News on Friday, July 29, 2022.
As we commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are partnering to publish guidance on the protections in federal nondiscrimination laws, including the ADA, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requiring that telehealth be accessible to people with disabilities and limited English proficient persons.
By Government Accountability Office on Friday, July 29, 2022.
To alert the audit community to changes in professional standards, we periodically issue Professional Standards Updates (PSU). These updates highlight the effective dates and issuance of recent standards and guidance related to engagements conducted in accordance with Government Auditing Standards.
By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Thursday, July 28, 2022.
The recently-released Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program FY 2021 report contains a treasure trove of information for healthcare compliance teams. To gain a better understanding of lessons to be learned from this document we sat down with SCCE & HCCA board member Gabe Imperato, Partner at Nelson Mullins.
By US Department of Justice, News on Wednesday, July 27, 2022.
A federal court ordered a Tampa-area pain management clinic to close and directed the clinic's owners and its former physician to collectively pay $600,000 in civil penalties pursuant to agreed resolutions in a case alleging violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the Justice Department announced today.
By SEC Press Releases on Wednesday, July 27, 2022.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today separately charged J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, UBS Financial Services Inc., and TradeStation Securities, Inc. for deficiencies in their programs to prevent customer identity theft.
By US Department of Justice on Tuesday, July 26, 2022.
The United States Attorney's Office announced today that Dr. Don Flanagan, D.D.S., and his affiliated companies, Dental Center, Inc. and Dental Center, P.C. d/b/a Cloudland Dental ("Cloudland Dental"), have agreed to pay $1,500,000 to resolve allegations that they knowingly and improperly submitted false claims for dental services to TennCare in violation of the False Claims Act ("FCA") and the Tennessee Medicaid False Claims Act ("TMFCA").
By US Department of Justice on Tuesday, July 26, 2022.
A New York-based specialty pharmacy, DJ Drugs & Surgicals Inc., has agreed to resolve allegations that it altered patient medical records and submitted the altered medical records to Medicare in support of prior authorization requests.
By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Tuesday, July 26, 2022.
The ethics and compliance team at the University of Southern California (USC) wanted to revamp their program. Stacy Giwa, Vice President Culture, Ethics and Compliance, and Marisa Hardy, Assistant Director Compliance, explain that they went into the initiative with several overarching goals.
By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Monday, July 25, 2022.
We'll start with why you should care. If you're familiar with the data compliance space, you already know that new laws require your organization to take specific steps to protect the rights of anyone whose data they hold. (If you're not familiar with data compliance - surprise!)
