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The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently released a report calling on federal agencies to review diagnostic and testing laboratories that bill for COVID-19 tests. The agency encourages those who review these labs...
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Lawmakers passed the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) in 2018. At the time, Congress touted it as a way to hold bad actors accountable for illegal kickbacks in drug treatment centers. Even then legal leaders voiced concern that the language within the law...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) just made an already ambiguous law even more difficult to navigate. Lawmakers originally touted the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) as a weapon to help combat the growing opioid crisis. In reality, we have seen the...
Lawmakers enacted the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) in 2018 to help address the use of illegal kickbacks to physicians who would refer patients to certain treatment centers. Unfortunately, because drafters wrote the law so broadly it likely extended...
The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) generally prohibits the use of kickbacks and other forms of remuneration for referrals. The law applies to various medical practices, including labs. One of the biggest critiques to the law is the lack of transparency....
The feds are coming down hard on anyone that is taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic for their own personal gain. They have various tools to help build cases against those that it believes misappropriates funds or otherwise abuses the system, but is EKRA one of...
The federal government chose to ease enforcement of certain regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) was not one of them. This provision within the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery...
The law is constantly evolving. Arguably, this is a good thing. In many cases this evolution helps to better ensure the laws remain relevant. However, in some cases the changes may cause more problems than they fix. That is the issue diagnostic labs are currently...
There are various regulations that help better ensure patient safety when compounding medications. Although mostly beneficial, these regulations can prove challenging for pharmacies as well as diagnostic testing and reference labs. The government will conduct audits...
