News
04/06/21 – Media Mention
Brenda Maloney Shafer, Richard Davis and David Blank’s Article Showcased in Pratt’s Government Contracting Law Report
Many drug manufacturers have decided that the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Office of Pharmacy Affairs guidance on contract pharmacy encounters are causing significant disruption in operations and generating a loss of revenue for all types of 340B covered entities....
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Pratt’s Government Contracting Law Report
04/05/19 – Media Mention
David Blank quoted in “Outgoing HHS Watchdog Targeted Purdue, Paved ACA’s Path”
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"More recently, the OIG in 2015 created a specialized team focused on excluding fraudsters from health care programs and levying so-called civil monetary penalties. Since that time, the average length of exclusion has increased 40%, and the...
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Law 360
10/19/18
Quarles & Brady Announces New Health & Life Sciences Practice Leadership
MILWAUKEE — The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP today announced leadership changes to the Health & Life Sciences Practice Group. Randy Fearnow has been appointed chair of the Chicago and Indianapolis offices, David Blank has been appointed chair...
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10/01/18 – Media Mention
David M. Blank quoted in “OIG Unveils Fraud Risk Indicator and Will List ‘High Risk’ Organizations That Refused CIAs”
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"Former OIG senior counsel David Blank said the information that makes a provider high risk was already available—through the exclusion list, CIA database and self-disclosure settlements on the OIG website—but “OIG is highlighting and aggregating that information.”
But it...
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Report on Medicare Compliance
07/02/18 – Media Mention
David Blank quoted in article “DOJ, HHS Announce Largest Health Fraud Takedown Ever, Citing $2B in Losses”
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With a sweep of indictments across the country, federal agents carried out the largest health fraud enforcement action in the history of the nation, charging 601 people, including 76 physicians. The “takedown” was announced by Attorney General...
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Report on Medicare Compliance
05/14/18
Quarles & Brady’s Fraud & Abuse Compliance and Litigation Team Launches New Publication: OIG Monitor
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP has launched OIG Monitor, a new online publication from the firm’s Health & Life Science’s Practice.
Helping health care providers stay ahead of enforcement trends, OIG Monitor offers timely...
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01/08/18 – Media Mention
David M. Blank quoted in article “Expect Steady Audits, Enforcement; Pay Squeeze, Fewer Rules Raise Ante for CCOs”
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“There’s no question opioid enforcement will be the primary civil, criminal and administrative enforcement issue of 2018,” says David Blank, former senior counsel at the HHS Office of Inspector General. “Everyone will be under the microscope, from...
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Report on Medicare Compliance
12/12/17
Senior OIG Enforcement Attorney Joins Quarles & Brady’s Health Law Group
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP today announced that David Blank has joined the firm’s Health Law Practice Group in its Washington, D.C. office.
Blank's primary practice areas focus on fraud and abuse, corporate compliance...
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