On Sept. 13, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced a settlement with Oliver Street Dermatology Management LLC to resolve self-reported allegations that its acquisition of several dermatology practices violated the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act.
Read on for details about this matter, plus helpful guidance…
Influenced by the U.S. Supreme Court’s SFFA college affirmative action decision, on July 19, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee enjoined the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from determining federal contractor eligibility for its 8(a) Business Development program according to a “rebuttable presumption” that individuals of certain racial groups are socially…
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On this episode of Health+Tech, host Kristen McDermott Woodrum is joined by Charlie Winn, co-founder, vice president of sales and chief revenue officer for Liine, an artificial intelligence-powered call recording platform for healthcare practices. Their discussion covers the technology behind Liine, its use of AI, insights from Liine’s analytics and the near-term impact
Bain Capital Private Equity will acquire Harrington Process Solutions, according to a news release.
Harrington, founded in 1959 and based in Chino, Calif., is a specialty distributor of industrial flow control process solutions. Harrington provides solutions to a wide range of industries, including life sciences.
Bain Capital Private Equity, based in Boston, focuses…
Blue Heron Capital has closed out its latest fund with $102 million, according to industry reports.
The new fund, Blue Heron Capital Fund III, was oversubscribed.
Blue Heron, based in Richmond, Va., is a private equity firm focused on healthcare and enterprise technology. Founded in 2006, the firm pursues growth equity and minority…
Surge Private Equity has announced it has invested in Elite Clinical Network (ECN) in a transaction valued at around $200 million.
ECN, founded in 2003 and based in Las Vegas, is a network of pharmaceutical research sites throughout California, Arizona and Nevada.
Surge, based in Dallas, is lower middle market equity firm pursuing investments…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released data on its 2021 and 2022 settlements of voluntary self-disclosures related to past violations or potential violations of the physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”). In 2022, CMS settled a record 104 self-disclosures, with settlement amounts totaling over $9,000,000 in the aggregate. These amounts are nearly quadruple the number and amounts of settlements in 2021 and one more than the previous record number from 2016. The record number and value of settlements in 2022 shows a marked increase from 2020 and 2021, when we speculated that CMS focused greater attention on the 2019 novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic. Coming on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears that CMS is working to review a greater number of self-disclosure submissions annually, which may reduce the backlog or the time it takes to have a self-disclosure reviewed.
In the past three to four years, health system transaction activity has significantly slowed, due, in large part, to the unavoidable COVID-19 response efforts hospitals faced. Now, in this post-pandemic era, hospitals are reemerging and reengaging as active players in the transaction sphere — particularly when it comes to joint ventures, as McGuireWoods discussed during…
Grant Avenue Capital has announced it has participated in a recapitalization of CREO with founding partners of the company.
CREO, founded in 2015 and based in Durham, N.C., is a provider of strategy, merger and acquisition, digital transformation, cybersecurity, information technology quality and regulatory compliance consulting services to life sciences and healthcare organizations/
