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Archive for July, 2006

New Jersey Hospital Owes the Feds $85.7 Million

The  OIG recently released an Audit Report, “Review of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments to University Hospital, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey: July 1, 1995, Through June 30, 2001.” The Audit revealed hundreds of millions in overpayments over a 5 year period due to the miscalculation of acute care DSH claims. The DSH claims  included in the hospital cost reports were false, triggering the overpayments. We will be seeing more DSH False Claims Act cases emerge soon. To see the Audit Report, click here.

Guess What Else is NOT a Top Priority of the FDA?

Answer: Monitoring postmarketing study commitments. 

The FDA lacks an effective system for monitoring postmarketing study commitments.  See the latest OIG Report, dated June 2006. 

The Decline in FDA Enforcement Activity

Congressman Waxman’s United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform issued a report entitled “Prescription for Harm/The Decline in FDA Enforcement Activity” in June 2006. Enforcement is down and our FDA-related filings are up. Any relationship?