Will be presenting Health Care Reform from a Compliance Perspective: The New Legislative, Enforcement and Economic Realitiesand How to Address Them A Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) TeleconferenceApril 28th, 2010 | 12:00 pm CT
Category Archives: ARRA
Subscribe to ARRA RSS FeedCompliance Implications of Health Care Reform
Posted in ARRA, Enforcement, False Claims Act, FERA, Fraud, Government Initiatives, Medicaid, Medicare, ReformHere are the slides from the presentation that Shawn DeGroot, Jeff Kapp, and I gave at the Health Care Compliance Association’s annual Compliance Institute in Dallas.
When Reform Doesn’t Work, the Enforcers Step In: Part Two
Posted in ARRA, Enforcement, FERA, Fraud, Government Initiatives, Reform, StimulusIn Part One we discussed some of the parallels between the reform efforts in 1993-94 and the current state of healthcare reform. Here, we will discuss some of the legal and enforcement efforts. (For a copy of slides discussing FERA and ARRA in more detail, email me.) Laws Get Passed After the failed healthcare reform efforts… Continue Reading
Stimulus created jobs, controversy, backlash – CNN.com
Posted in ARRA, News, StimulusAn interesting article about the stimulus package, one year later. If people really believe the money has been wasted, I wonder if this will lead to (a) slowing down the remaining funding, and (b) more enforcement. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which was the vehicle for the stimulus, contains sweeping whistleblower… Continue Reading
Frank Sheeder
Frank Sheeder, chair of DLA Piper's Health Care Enforcement and Compliance practice, has defended clients against civil and criminal fraud allegations brought by the government and other hostile third-party litigants – especially whistleblowers – for more than 20 years... Read More