The Law Office of Bradley S. Byars, LLC

01/11/2023

Nurse Practitioner Autonomy, Scope Of Practice, And Collaborative Practice Agreements

02/01/2021

HHS OIG Special Fraud Alert: Physician Speaker Programs Being Targeted

    In a rare move, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) on Nov. 16, 2020 issued a Special Fraud Alert —which is the first issued since...

08/27/2020

There are a number of ways to expand the scope of practice of pharmacists, including collaborative practice agreements that can help drive revenue to integrated multi-specialty physician groups.

Patients benefit when health care professionals practice to the full extent of their training. While he should have done it sooner, Secretary Azar was right to issue an emergency order allowing them…

04/28/2020

Private Equity is beginning to view community oncology practices the same way it viewed dermatology and podiatry ten years ago, and the market is ripe for roll-ups into a centralized management model.

Still, the Community Oncology Alliance report found the rate of hospitals buying these cancer practices rose almost 10% between 2018 and 2020, in part due to financial incentives built into the 340B Drug Discount Program.

01/28/2020

The laws that govern physician relationships with industry come from a variety of sources on both the federal and state levels. However, the five most important Federal fraud and abuse laws that apply to physicians are the False Claims Act (FCA), the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), the Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark law), the Exclusion Authorities, and the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (CMPL). [ 4,655 more words ]

The laws that govern physician relationships with industry come from a variety of sources on both the federal and state levels. However, the five most important Federal fraud and abuse laws that apply to physicians...

01/10/2020

Whistleblowers and Qui Tam actions continue to play a central role for the Government in recoveries against health care fraud schemes.

The Department of Justice received more than $3 billion in recoveries, including $2.6 billion involving healthcare fraud and false claims, in fiscal 2019, officials announced.

12/17/2019

This guidance is intended to assist anyone who has the responsibility for procuring, negotiating, approving or administrating contracts for services with third-party vendors so that they may better understand and more efficiently manage the contracting process. 1. Vendor Due Diligence: Have you looked at the credit/trustworthiness of the vendor? How long has the vendor been in business? Has the vendor received any negative press recently? [ 769 more words ]

  This guidance is intended to assist anyone who has the responsibility for procuring, negotiating, approving or administrating contracts for services with third-party vendors so that they may better understand and more efficiently manage the...

12/04/2019

What does your compliance plan look like?

The federal government brought in $5.9 billion in fraud recoveries in fiscal 2019 from investigations by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, according to a new report from that agency.

12/04/2019

"Amazon charges customers $0.0004 per second for Transcribe Medical, or just less than a quarter of a cent per minute."

Big competition for Dragon and other small medical transcription services.

Amazon said the new machine-learning tool is HIPAA compliant and can transcribe spoken medical dictation into text.

10/30/2019

Mark Cuban gets it

LAS VEGAS—Mark Cuban isn't just mad about healthcare, he told an audience of thousands of healthcare entrepreneurs and executives at the HLTH conference Monday evening. He wants to use his own muscle to help burn many of the core elements of the business model to the ground—starting with insuran...

10/18/2019

If you wonder why the U.S. healthcare system is the most expensive in the world, it is in part because "pay-to-play" is culturally embedded between physicians and drug companies.

ProPublica has been tracking drug company spending on doctors since 2010. We just updated our database and found that companies are still paying private doctors huge sums for promotional talks and consulting.