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Walmart's announcement last week that it would acquire telehealth company MeMD to provide virtual care nationwide for primary, urgent and behavioral healthcare is a bigger deal than Amazon's March rollout of its virtual primary care services, according to consultant Paul Keckley of The Keckley Report. "I think it's a strategic play, I think it's bigger than Amazon," Keckley ....
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Once an innovative outlier in the world of health and life sciences, telemedicine has exponentially gained ground in the current landscape shaped by COVID-19 restrictions. Ann Mond Johnson CEO of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) plans to help this momentum continue until she’s ensured that everyone including those in rural and underserved communities, urban areas and our most vulnerable patients has permanent access to quality care via telehealth. Ann recently participated in Faegre Drinker’s Leaders in Health and Life Sciences webinar series, an internal event where clients and friends of the firm share their perspectives with our professionals. In a livestreamed conversation with Partner Libby Baney, Ann discussed her mission at the ATA, how the organization pivoted when the pandemic hit and what’s next for the telehealth industry. ....
04/09/21 Ann Beal In a categorical win for telehealth last year, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) amended the Stark Law and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) to allow disparate groups, including healthcare providers, telehealth and mHealth vendors, to work together on related health care services without risking unlawful consequences. Enacted more than 40 years ago, the Stark Law was written to preclude physicians from referring patients to a provider with whom the physician or his family has a fiscal relationship, while the Anti-Kickback Statute was meant to prohibit compensation, defined as anything of value, for referrals payable by a federal healthcare program. These laws were originally designed to safeguard patients against poor service in a fee-for-service arrangement whereby services are paid separately, incentivizing the quantity of care model. However, these laws have resulted in prohibiting physicians, hospitals and ....
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 On February 4, 2021, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), Office of Public Affairs, issued a Press Release (the “DOJ Press Release”) announcing that Kelly Wolfe, President of Regency, Inc., a medical billing company located in Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud through a “pernicious telefraud scheme”[1] involving fraudulent Medicare and CHAMPVA (Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs) claims for medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (“DME”) supplies. As a result of Wolfe’s criminal plea, Wolfe could face up to 13 years in federal prison. In addition to her criminal plea, Wolfe and Regency agreed to a civil settlement of up to $20,332,516 to resolve allegations that Wolfe and her co-conspirators violated the federal False Claims Act and the federal Anti-Kickback Statute by bribing physicians to write prescriptions for DME supplies based upon ....