Vasilios J Kalogredis

August 31, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

On July 17, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed a lower court's decision and held that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has the authority to cut Medicare payments to hospital off-campus facilities to bring them in line with independent physician practices and other outpatient payments.

By Vasilios J. Kalogredis and Rachel E. (Lusk) Klebanoff

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August 03, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

After nearly a decade of litigation, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Novartis) has agreed to pay over $678 million in separate settlements to resolve claims that it systematically violated the federal False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute.

By Vasilios J. Kalogredis and Rachel E. Lusk Klebanoff

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July 06, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania has been working on improving things as to the dispensing and the use of opioids for the treatment of pain for several years. Up until a few years ago, Pennsylvania was only one of a handful of states that did not have a functioning prescription drug monitoring program.

By Vasilios J. Kalogredis

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June 01, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) signed by President Donald Trump March 27, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) launched the employee retention credit program designed to encourage businesses, including many of our for-profit and nonprofit health care clients.

By Vasilios J. Kalogredis

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April 27, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

Now that many small businesses have actually received their PPP loan funds, thereby triggering the eight-week coverage period, the fundamental question has become: How much of my loan will be forgiven, and what will I need to do to apply for forgiveness?

By Vasilios J. Kalogredis

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April 02, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

For doctors in private practice in particular, decisions about malpractice insurance may be among the most important they will make.

By Vasilios J. Kalogredis

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February 27, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

On Jan. 15, the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued Advisory Opinion No. 20-02 approving an arrangement under which a pharmaceutical manufacturer could provide financial assistance to certain patients receiving the manufacturer's cell therapy drug.

By Vasilios J. Kalogredis

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January 27, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

Under the CMS advisory opinion process, parties can seek guidance on whether a physician's referrals for certain designated health services payable by Medicare to an entity with which he (or an immediate family member) has a financial relationship are prohibited under the Medicare program by Section 1877 of the Social Security Act.

By Vasilios J. Kalogredis

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December 20, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

HCQIA called for the creation of a national database "to protect peer review bodies from private money damage liability and to prevent incompetent practitioners from moving state to state without disclosure or discovery of previous damaging or incompetent performance."

By Vasilios J. Kalogredis

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December 02, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

The hospital entities of Sanford Health, Sanford Medical Center and the Sanford Clinic of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have agreed to pay $20.25 million to resolve False Claims Act (FCA) allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims to federal health care programs.

By Vasilios J. Kalogredis

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