In a welcome sign to the vast majority of treatment programs that rely on Google Ad Words and its search engine for patient lead identification, the...
Justice Department to File Long-Awaited Antitrust Suit Against Google
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Some Good News During Difficult Times – PHP Remains
Hello friends. I know I speak for all of us when I express my gratitude to be surrounded by so many people who think of “community” before “self”...
New Arrests of More “Sophisticated” Players in Drug Treatment Industry Forthcoming
Hot off of the (local) presses is an article written by South Florida Sun Sentinel reporter Marc Freeman, in his piece “More arrests to come in...
Travel Assistance, Patient Financial Responsibility, and Good Intentions
Last week was the annual Moments of Change conference at The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach. A beautiful venue for a long-running gathering of...
Why Having a Certified Compliance Professional in Addiction Treatment is Critical
The health care law world has been buzzing over the weekend about the release by HHS of its Notice of Enforcement Discretion, regarding a reduction...
The Feds Get Creative Prosecuting Kickbacks
In various health care law blogs and posts, lawyers across the country have been writing about the “Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act” (EKRA)...
What We Are Reading This Week
Hello all! We haven’t written in a while because there seems to be "news" updates that come out almost daily. Please "Like" and follow our...
Feds Reconsidering Stark and Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors
The concepts of the federal Stark Law and its companion Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) are often used interchangeably by health care industry...
Florida’s First Sober Home Patient Brokering Case Goes to Trial
Since 2016, the Office of the State Attorney for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida (Palm Beach County, The Honorable David Aronberg, State...
BREAKING NEWS – Google Reinstates Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers, With Pre-certification by LegitScript
Google will start accepting ads for addiction treatment centers again, Reuters reports. The company suspended the ads in September after The Verge...