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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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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Alanna J. Kroeker Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 Valerie Dixon currently serves as the University of California Irvine Health (UCI) Deputy Compliance Officer. Ms. Dixon brings 17 years of compliance experience with her to UCI, as she started her compliance career in 1999 at UC San Diego. Prior to …
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Kaitlin Lavin Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published a new rule for state contracts with Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCO). Medicaid MCOs provide comprehensive services to beneficiaries for capitated payments. The effective date of the rule was July 5, 2016. …
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Amanda Bogle Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 On June 30, 2016, the Department of Justice joined other agencies in passing a new interim final rule, significantly increasing the penalties for the False Claims Act (FCA). Before, FCA penalties ranged from $5,500 up to $11,000 per false claim. The new …
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Ryan Whitney Managing Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 Beginning in December of this year, the Department of Labor will implement their final update to the rules governing overtime pay. The new income threshold will nearly double, thus encompassing 4 million workers nationwide. This update will have a large impact on …
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Brittany Tomkies Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 In a monumental decision for false claims cases, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) unanimously affirmed the viability of the implied certification theory. The ramifications of this ruling may create additional stressors on small businesses and will likely create additional …
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Alanna J. Kroeker Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 Unprecedented DOJ Healthcare Fraud Takedown: On Wednesday June 22, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced the largest healthcare fraud takedown in history. This action was led by the Medicare Fraud Strike …
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Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Now that the UK referendum has expressed the voters’ preference to leave the European Union, there are some fascinating questions regarding how compliance programs deal with the unwinding. There is still considerable time to wrestle with these matters since both major …
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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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