Author:Ryan Meade
On this Day: the Federal Register (June)
Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Since we have arrived at the end of another month, let’s see how the Federal Register page count is going. Please see previous month-end wrap-ups if you would like to learn where the horse race was at those points. …
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Supreme Court Weighs in on Implied False Certification Theory
Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. U.S. ex rel Escobar (“UHS”) has had some strange initial summaries suggesting this is a gloom and doom opinion for actors who submit claims to the United States. I …
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Being Held to Standards Beyond the Legal Minimum
Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Here is a link to a short blog post I recently published on the SCCE’s The Compliance & Ethics Blog (“Being Held to Standards Beyond the Legal Minimum”). Organizations must go into policy-writing with eyes wide open on what exposure …
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On this Day: the Federal Register (May)
Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Now that it is the end of May, let’s check in on how the Federal Register page count is faring so far this year against recent years. Here is today’s ending page number compared to the last few years …
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A New Role for Compliance Programs in HHS-OIG Resolutions of Non-compliant Conduct
Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law A recent commentary from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) indicates it will not consider the existence of an effective compliance program as a positive factor in resolving civil non-compliance but it …
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Elemental: Internal or External Hotlines?
Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Yesterday I gave a webinar on compliance program hotlines and an interesting question came in after the broadcast: “Internally staffed compliance hotlines seem like a bad idea. Doesn’t an internal hotline increase the company’s regulatory risk?” Internal hotlines could increase …
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On this Day: the Federal Register (April)
Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law The number of annually published pages of the Federal Register doesn’t tell us much about the growth of regulations in the United States. After all, even repeals of regulations take up page counts. But the size of the Federal …
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Adding Federal Grant Compliance to the Audit Plan: the University of Florida Case
Greg Grabinski Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2016 One of the best sources for designing a compliance program’s annual audit plan is to look around to see what is happening at peer institutions. If there is a regulatory settlement in a peer organization’s similar business line, then the subject-matter should …
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Lessons Still to be Learned from Settlements of Implantable Cardiac Device Cases
Gail Jankowski Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2016 Although the DOJ reached 70 settlements involving 457 hospitals in 43 states for more than $250 million related to cardiac devices that were implanted in Medicare patients which violated coverage requirements, they were not done yet. Another batch of 51 hospitals settled …
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Welcome to Inside Compliance
Today we are launching the blog of the Loyola University Chicago Journal of Regulatory Compliance. In this space we will publish news alerts, brief commentaries, and short essays on regulatory compliance.