The Texas Medical Board, with direction and assistance from Governor Abbott’s administration, is issuing and implementing various temporary rules and guidance to help Texas physicians, physician assistants and other health care professionals respond to COVID-19.
Read MoreTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced a $235.9 million settlement with Xerox Corp. and its former subsidiaries resolving a May 2014 lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General’s Office (OAG) under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act (TMFPA), State of Texas v. Xerox Corp. et al., Cause No. D-1-GV-14-000581, in the 353rd Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas.
Read MoreKent Hofmann, a Commercial Litigation Partner in Locke Lord’s Austin office, authored an article for Bloomberg Law’s Health Law & Business section detailing a series of recent opinions and orders where Medicare providers have succeeded in obtaining injunctive relief to prevent recoupment of their Medicare revenues while prosecuting appeals of overpayment demands by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Read MoreOn September 5, 2018, U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra issued a permanent injunction blocking Senate Bill 8 (passed in 2017) from going into effect. Senate Bill 8 would prohibit health care providers from disposing of fetal remains in the same manner as other medical waste.
Read MoreAccording to an article in the Quorum Report published June 27, 2018, Governor Greg Abbott wants to review all Texas agency rules before they are posted in the Texas Register for public comment.
Read MoreOn June 22, 2018, the Texas Supreme Court issued two opinions arising from civil enforcement actions brought under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act (TMFPA): Nazari v. State (No. 16-0549) and In re Xerox Corp. (No. 16-0671), a case that has been closely watched by Texas practitioners.
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