May 2023, Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane Health Law attorneys Vasilios J. (Bill) Kalogredis and Artyom (Art) Sharbatyan. In a positive development in the long-time battle against COVID-19, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared that the...
Every year the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) publishes the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG’s) Top Unimplemented Recommendations: Solutions to Reduce Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in HHS Programs (https://oig.hhs.gov). In its recently published 2022 edition of almost...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane Health Law Chair Vasilios J. (Bill) Kalogredis, Esq. On August 18, 2022, more than two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Health Law attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Rachel E. (Lusk) Klebanoff, Esq. OIG Determines Pharmaceutical Manufacturer’s Provision of Free Eye Drops to Eligible Patients Undergoing a Particular Treatment Does Not Violate the Federal Anti-Kickback...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Health Law attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esq. and Rachel E. (Lusk) Klebanoff, Esq. On January 1, 2022, a new law will go into effect limiting “surprise” medical bills, or bills patients receive for...
8-31-21, Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Health Law partner Vasilios J. Kalogredis*. On July 14, 2021, the Office of Inspector General for the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued Advisory Opinion 21-09 approving an...
House Bill 681, also known as the “Health Care Practitioner Non-Compete Agreement Act” (the “Act”), is moving quickly through the legislature. The Act would prevent the use of non-compete agreements in health care practitioners’ employment contracts. According to State Representative...
February 25, 2021 Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Health Law Attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis and Rachel E. (Lusk) Klebanoff. On December 23, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) issued Advisory...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Health Law Attorneys Vasilios J. KalogredisI and Rachel E. (Lusk) Klebanoffii On June 23, 2020, a federal district court upheld the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule,...
Physicians, dentists, podiatrists, veterinarians and other doctors face many decisions and forks in the road during their careers, from start to finish. One of the tougher, if not toughest, ones relates to how and when to cut back one’s clinical...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Health Law Attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis[i] and Rachel E. Lusk- Klebanoff. You’ve just received a call from a physician or dentist asking you to review their new employment contract. Or, maybe you’ve received a call...
In the age of same-day delivery and on-demand entertainment, it is no wonder that the healthcare industry is moving toward a more immediate and convenient provision of primary care. The most ubiquitous example of this is the urgent care center....