The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently announced a modest increase in monetary recoveries for 2024 from investigations and lawsuits under the False Claims Act (“FCA”), which is the Government’s primary tool for combating...more
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Polsinelli proudly introduces the Health Care Fraud and Abuse 2023 Year in Review, a comprehensive examination of the evolving landscape surrounding the False Claims Act (“FCA”) and fraud & abuse enforcement...more
4/12/2024
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Health Care Providers ,
Health Technology ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Home Health Care ,
Hospice ,
Hospitals ,
Laboratories ,
Long Term Care Facilities ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Nursing Homes ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physicians ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Qui Tam ,
Settlement ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Skilled Nursing Facility ,
Stark Law
Through two separate notices of proposed rule-making (NPRMs), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG), seek to remove...more
11/13/2019
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Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Healthcare Reform ,
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OIG ,
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Risk-Based Approaches ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Safe Harbors ,
Stark Law ,
Value-Based Care
Starting today, the industry has 75 days to provide input on the proposed rules published in the Federal Register regarding the future enforcement of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). ...more
10/21/2019
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Healthcare Reform ,
OIG ,
Proposed Regulation ,
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Rulemaking Process ,
Safe Harbors ,
Stark Law ,
Telehealth ,
Value-Based Care
Millennium Health, one of the nation’s largest urine drug testing laboratories, has agreed to pay the government $256 million to resolve claims that it violated the Federal False Claims Act (“FCA”).
The Settlement...more
11/3/2015
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Drug Testing ,
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Federal Health Care Programs (FHCP) ,
Genetic Testing ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
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Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
OIG ,
Qui Tam ,
Stark Law ,
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