Mac Matarieh Associate Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2018 On October 3, 2016 Tenet Healthcare Corporation (Tenet) announced that they have reached a settlement with the United States Government for $514 million. The settlement stems from a violation of the anti-kickback law by four of Tenet’s hospital subsidiaries. The hospitals allegedly …
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Corinne Nierzwicki Production Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2018 The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics recently hosted the 15th Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI) in Chicago, Illinois. Several Loyola faculty members and students, including myself, attended CEI. I had an excellent experience at CEI networking with attendees and learning from the …
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Logan Parker Privacy Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, LL.M. in Health Law 2017 TalkTalk is one of the UK’s fastest growing business to business telecommunication providers that offers a full range of business-grade communications, products and services which include internet, data, voice and mobile. On October 5, 2016, the Information Commissioner’s Office …
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Fannie Fang Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently agreed to a settlement with Advocate Health Care Network (Advocate), the largest health systems in the Chicago area. In the settlement, Advocate agreed to pay a sum of …
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Christine Bulgozdi Associate Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2018 The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced in August that they would be focusing more efforts on investigating breaches of Protected Health Information (PHI) affecting fewer than 500 individuals. Currently, regional offices investigate all breaches affecting more than 500 individuals, but only …
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Gilbert Carrillo Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 In the United States, sanctioned MMA fights are a heavily regulated industry. While there are international governing organizations in the MMA industry, states permitting sanctioned MMA fights have created their own unarmed combat regulation authorities. These authorities are tasked with the responsibility …
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Alanna J. Kroeker Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was signed into law by President Obama back in April 2015 and one year later, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the highly anticipated proposed rule. This 962-page rule is …
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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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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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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.