On February 24, 2021, DOJ’s Criminal Division Fraud Section published its annual year-end summary. The Fraud Section focuses on prosecuting white-collar crime. The report summarizes enforcement activity in the past year and...more
3/9/2021
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Bribery ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Kickbacks ,
Opioid ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Telemedicine
As discussed in our article recently published by Law360, criminal health care enforcement in 2019 was in many ways a continuation of 2018, with opioid-related enforcement continuing to be the clear top priority for the...more
1/23/2020
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Controlled Substances Act ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Guilty Pleas ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Kickbacks ,
Medical Devices ,
Medical Necessity ,
Medicare Beneficiaries ,
OIG ,
Opioid ,
Physicians ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Telemedicine
Overview of Qui Tam Activity -
..We identified 56 health care related qui tam cases that were unsealed in October and November 2017.
..The intervention rate for those unsealed cases was 20%, which is consistent with...more
Like many before it, this year has been one to watch in government health care fraud enforcement efforts. In September 2015, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released the “Yates Memo,” which reaffirmed the government’s...more
6/28/2016
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Affirmative Defenses ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Good Faith ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Jury Instructions ,
Kickbacks ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
Yates Memorandum