Legal Alert by Lamb McErlane attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. Friday June 28, 2024 marked a massive change in legislative history. The United States Supreme Court overturned a longstanding legal precedent that required courts to defer...
Employment / Health Law Alert by Lamb McErlane attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. On April 26, 2024, we posted an article, “Breaking News: Non-Compete Agreements Banned by the FTC, But Will it Last,” on the Federal...
Health Law alert by Lamb McErlane attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. On April 17, 2024, House Bill 2012 (“HB 2012”) was presented, as amended, to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. First introduced on February 5, 2024,...
April 2024 Legal Intelligencer/Law.com article by Lamb McErlane attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Sonal Parekh, Esq. The gap in access to mental health services throughout the United States has been a prevalent problem only further exacerbated by the Covid-19...
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...
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 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...