- May 1, 2024
- EVENTS
Garfunkel’s Compliance Webinar Series rolls on with an examination of the 2024 Work Plan published by the New York State Office of Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG).
Biography
Vanessa Giunta joined Garfunkel Wild, P.C. in 2022. She works on regulatory, corporate, and transactional matters for clients including, but not limited to, hospitals, medical providers, ambulatory care facilities, physician practices, and other for-profit and not-for-profit entities. Vanessa also has experience working on clinical trial and grant award agreements with research sponsors.
Prior to joining the firm, Vanessa was a Public Health Law Program Legal Intern at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a Research Fellow at the Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy, and a Clinic Intern at the Robert W. Entenmann Veterans Law Clinic. Vanessa was also a Certified Pharmacy Technician at local pharmacy companies and a Director of Reimbursement for a long term care pharmacy.
While in law school, Vanessa had her Note published in the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal and received the highest level of Hofstra Law’s Public Service Awards for completing over 750 hours of public service work.
Prior to joining the firm, Vanessa was a Public Health Law Program Legal Intern at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a Research Fellow at the Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy, and a Clinic Intern at the Robert W. Entenmann Veterans Law Clinic. Vanessa was also a Certified Pharmacy Technician at local pharmacy companies and a Director of Reimbursement for a long term care pharmacy.
While in law school, Vanessa had her Note published in the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal and received the highest level of Hofstra Law’s Public Service Awards for completing over 750 hours of public service work.
Insights
- April 25, 2024
- ALERTS
On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) promulgated a final rule banning most non-compete agreements, in any industry, and is set to become effective 120 days after its publication in the Federal Register (the “Final Rule”).
- January 17, 2024
- ALERTS
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted a favorable Advisory Opinion (23-12) that allows a limited liability partnership (the Partnership) consisting of two classes of physician partners to make a one-time, voluntary redemption offer (offer) to individual partners when they reach age 67.
- January 17, 2024
- ALERTS
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a new toolkit to help Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations replicate OIG audit methodologies to detect and correct inaccurate diagnosis codes in their own systems.
- January 17, 2024
- ALERTS
The New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) released its 2024 work plan in furtherance of its mission to coordinate and conduct activities to prevent, detect and investigate medical assistance program fraud, waste and abuse, and to recover improperly expended Medicaid funds.
- March 24, 2023
- ALERTS
Scammers have perpetuated a telephone fraud scheme attempting to extort money and personal identifiable information from healthcare providers by impersonating Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) agents across the country.