Health Law update by Lamb McErlane attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. On March 27, 2024, Mark Sorensen, the owner of a durable medical equipment (“DME”) company and pharmacy, Symed Inc. (“Symed”), was sentenced to spend 3.5...
Former Villanova football player found not guilty of attempted rape Article by: Vinny Vella Published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Mar. 29, 2024, 12:05 p.m. ET Iyanu Elijah Solomon, 22, had been accused of assaulting a female classmate in his dorm...
Health Law update by Lamb McErlane attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. On March 27, 2024, the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania dismissed with prejudice a qui tam (aka whistleblower) action alleging that Maraposa...
March 2024 Legal Intelligencer/Law.com article by Lamb McErlane attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in (i) the focus on wellbeing and therapy and (ii) recognition that many forms...
Health Law Blog by Lamb McErlane attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. On December 21, 2023, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania (the “Court”) reversed and remanded the State Board of Dentistry’s (“Board”) decision to deny the application...
Health Law Alert by Lamb McErlane attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. The Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) final rule “Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing” relating to...
On February 16, 2024, the former Chief Marketing Officer (“CMO”) of BioTek reMEDys, Inc. (“BioTek”), Carla Sparkler, agreed to settle allegations of violations to the False Claims Act (“FCA”) and Anti-Kickback Statutes (“AKS”) by paying kickbacks to patients and physicians...
Health Law Alert by Lamb McErlane attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. On January 17, 2024, the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a final rule requiring health insurers participating in federal programs, including Medicare...
February 2024 Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. The HHS Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued Advisory Opinion No. 23-10 (“Opinion”) on December 15, 2023 regarding a proposal to incentivize...
Health Law Alert by Lamb McErlane attorneys: Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. The HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) published, on February 16, 2024, a final version of...
Health Law Alert by Lamb McErlane attorneys: Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. On February 7, 2024, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Penn State Health (“PSH”) agreed to pay over 11...
On January 11, 2024, two doctors from St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Asim Muhammad Ali and Dr. Mohd Azfar Malik, were charged with 22 felony counts for illegally administering ketamine to patients and fraudulently billing Medicare for services related to a...