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December 8, 2023

Health Law Weekly

Featured Articles

FTC Lawsuit Debuts New Enforcement Agenda Targeting Private Equity “Roll-Up” Acquisitions Against Texas Anesthesia Provider and PE Sponsor Alleging Multiple Antitrust Violations

Key Principles of Health Care Board Committee Practice

Private Equity and the Physician Enterprise: Key Issues Affecting the Investor-Professional Entity Model of Health Care Delivery

Current Topics

Antitrust

Administration Sharpens Focus on Effects of Private Equity in Health Care

Fraud and Compliance

DME Company Owner Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for $24 Million Medicare Fraud

Former Hospital Exec, Three Physicians to Pay $880k to Resolve FCA Allegations

Lab Owner Admits Fraudulently Billing Medicare for COVID-19 Tests

Lab Owner Indicted for $148 Million Urine Drug Testing Scam

OIG Tallies $3.44 Billion in Expected Recoveries from FY 2023

Physician Charged in $14 Million DME Fraud Scheme

Physician Draws Seven-Year Prison Sentence for “Pill Mill” Scheme

Government Reimbursement

CMS Implements Enforcement Authorities for State Medicaid Reporting, Renewal Noncompliance

Health Care Finance and Transactions

AbbVie to Buy Cerevel Therapeutics for $8.7 Billion

Roche to Acquire Carmot Therapeutics in Bid for New Obesity Meds

Health Information

North Carolina Court Allows Action Alleging Hospital Improperly Disclosed Patient-Specific Data to Meta

OCR Announces First Ever Phishing Cyber-Attack Settlement

Health Insurance

Sign Ups for ACA Coverage Near 7.3 Million, CMS Says

Tenth Circuit Says United Improperly Denied Coverage of Teen’s Residential Treatment

Life Sciences

Administration Unveils Proposed Framework for Exercising “March in” Rights on High-Priced Drugs

U.S. Court in Minnesota Blocks State Law Regulating Generic Drug Price Increases

Reproductive Health Law Hub

Texas Judge Authorizes Woman's Abortion After Risky Pregnancy Diagnosis

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Health Law Weekly Issue - December 8, 2023