News & Legal Updates Archive

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.

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which became law in November, includes significant changes in the way IRS partnership audits will be handled.

McDonald Hopkins' Jim Giszczak explains how hackers are now "more creative and more technologically sophisticated" in an article for Crain's Detroit Business.

McDonald Hopkins attorney Bruce Reinhart quoted in an article by the New York Times on kleptocracy asset recovery.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule on Feb.12, 2016 that requires Medicare providers and suppliers to report and return overpayments by the later of (a) 60 days after the date an overpayment is identified or (b) the due date of any corresponding cost report, if applicable.