News & Legal Updates Archive

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) started Phase 2 of its audits of covered entities and business associates.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) continues to pick up the pace on enforcement for lax health information security.

EU and U.S. officials recently reached an agreement to implement the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield program, which, if passed, would succeed the now-invalidated U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program.

The Department of Justice provided a fresh reminder this week of the importance of effective compliance programs when it announced two related settlements requiring the nation’s leading endoscope distributor and its subsidiary to pay a combined $646 million to resolve kickback allegations under federal and state False Claims Acts and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

McDonald Hopkins LLC, a business advisory and advocacy law firm based in Cleveland, has elected Shawn M. Riley president, effective Oct. 1, 2016.