Publications by Ritu Kaur Cooper

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OIG Issues Highly Anticipated General Compliance Program Guidance

[11/10/23]

2023 Deadline for Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers and Teaching Hospitals to Review Sunshine Act Data Approaching

[03/01/23]

Have a Plan for Planned Giving: Funds Being Donated Not a Factor in Fraud and Abuse Analysis

[02/25/22]

Deadline for Physicians, Advance Practice Providers and Teaching Hospitals to Review Sunshine Act Data Approaching

[02/24/22]

The Finish Line Is Here: New Stark and Anti-Kickback Regulations Take Effect Today

[01/19/21]

OIG Issues New Guidance Regarding Big-Box Store Gift Cards as Patient Incentives

[01/08/21]

CMS Provides Additional Expansion Opportunities for Certain Physician-Owned Hospitals

[12/22/20]

The Finish Line Is Here: CMS and OIG Finalize Transformative Stark and Anti-Kickback Regulations

[11/20/20]

New OIG Special Fraud Alert Expresses Concerns Regarding Speaker Programs Now and Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

[11/19/20]

Potential Compliance Program Effects of Proposed DEA Theft Reporting Rule

[08/05/20]

False Claims Cost More: DOJ Increases Civil Penalties for False Claims Act Violations

[07/01/20]

Deadline for Physicians and Teaching Hospitals to Review Sunshine Act Data Approaching

[03/19/20]

DOJ Self-Disclosure and Cooperation Credit

[05/17/19]

Department of Justice Updates Compliance Program Guidance

[05/13/19]

"Glossary of Key Terms," Healthcare Compliance Manual, American Health Lawyers Association (2019)

"The Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute," Healthcare and the False Claims Act, Second Edition (2019)

Department of Justice Announces Important Updates to Yates Memo Requirements

[12/07/18]

"The Past is Prologue: Reviewing Compliance Landmarks from 2018 to Plan for 2019," Compliance Today, December 2018.

"Health Care Fraud and Abuse Laws," Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual Quarterly Update (June 2017)

"False Claims Act and Qui Tam Suits," Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual Quarterly Update (June 2017)

OIG Final Rule Significantly Expands Exclusion Authority

[01/19/17]

Summary of the OIG 2017 Work Plan

[11/11/16]

Seventh Circuit: Implied Certification Claims Remain a Heavy Lift

[10/26/16]

Health Care Fraud and Abuse Laws, The Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual, March 2016

False Claims Act and Qui Tam Suits, The Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual, March 2016

SAMHSA’s Proposed Rule Establishes Security and Confidentiality Protection for Substance Abuse Records in the World of EHRs and New Integrated Health Care Models

[02/22/16]

Conclusion, Healthcare and the False Claims Act (2016)

NOTICE Act Requires Hospitals to Promptly Notify Medicare Patients of Observation Status

[08/04/15]

Self-Disclosure, the Public Disclosure Bar and the FCA – Uncertainty, Circuit by Circuit

[02/11/15]

Civil Monetary Penalties Law, Health Care Litigation and Risk Management Answer Book 2015

Intermountain Healthcare Settlement of $25.5 Million Stems from “Technical” Stark Law Violations, April 2013

Update: CMS Proposes Stringent Repayment Requirements, February 2012

The New Frontier: Compliance Issues Under the Health Care Reform Law, HCCA Compliance Today, August 2010

False Claims Act and Qui Tam Suits, Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual, June 2010

Health Care Fraud and Abuse Laws, Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual, June 2010

Day in the Life – Health Care Law Associate, Hire Ground: The Online Voice of Harvard Law School’s Office of Career Services, February 2010

Health Care Headlines: The Road Ahead and How to Stay on Course, May 2009

OIG Open Letter Regarding the Self-Disclosure Protocol: Further Refinements, Health Lawyers Weekly, April 2009

Grassley Proposes Significant Changes to the False Claims Act, December 2007

Responding To Data Security Breaches, HCCA Compliance Today, November 2007; also published in Privacy & Information Law Report, December 2007

Summary of State Civil False Claims Laws, Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual, October 2007

Treat Security Breaches With Caution, HIT News (an American Health Law Association publication), September 2007