In November 2021, Thompson Coburn’s health care litigators successfully resolved another set of payment disputes for a health care provider without the need to file litigation. In the most recent example of this highly effective payment strategy, Thompson Coburn secured significant insurer payments for client Vibra Healthcare for a set of claims related to Vibra’s care and treatment of patients at a rehabilitation hospital in El Paso, Texas.

The patients were all insured by the same Medicare […]

On November 22, 2021, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) posted a negative Advisory Opinion regarding a proposed joint venture (JV) for the provision of therapy services (Proposed Arrangement) between an existing therapy services provider (Therapy Services Provider) and an owner of long-term care facilities (LTC Owner). The OIG noted that the Proposed Arrangement would present significant risk of fraud and abuse and is potentially designed to permit […]