On February 26, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a significant False Claims Act (FCA) ruling in United States of America ex rel. Cheryl Taylor v. Healthcare Associates of Texas, LLC,...more
4/21/2025
/ Constitutional Challenges ,
Damages ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Eighth Amendment ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Medicare ,
Overpayment ,
Settlement
Introduction -
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
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
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
As we wrote on July 28, 2021, Senator Chuck Grassley has sponsored a bill (S. 2428) that would amend the False Claims Act (FCA) in several significant ways that are unfavorable to defendants. On October 28, 2021, the Senate...more
On February 22, 2021, the United States Supreme Court declined to review two False Claims Act (FCA) cases, solidifying a split that pits the Eleventh Circuit against the Third and Ninth Circuits as to whether a disagreement...more
Jody Hunt, Assistant Attorney General for DOJ’s Civil Division, and Michael Granston, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Commercial Litigation Branch, spoke recently about False Claims Act (“FCA”) enforcement at the Federal...more
3/6/2020
/ American Bar Association (ABA) ,
Corruption ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Elder Issues ,
Electronic Medical Records ,
Enforcement Guidance ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Government Investigations ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Medicare Billing Privileges ,
Nursing Homes ,
Qui Tam ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Voluntary Disclosure
On January 9, 2020, the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it recovered over $3 billion from civil False Claims Act (FCA) judgments and settlements in the fiscal year ending September 30,...more
1/16/2020
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Corruption ,
Defense Contracts ,
Defense Sector ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Falsified Documents ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Government Investigations ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
Opioid ,
Pain Management ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physicians ,
Qui Tam ,
Scientific Research ,
South Korea ,
White Collar Crimes
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
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Comment Period ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Fee-for-Service ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Healthcare Reform ,
NPRM ,
OIG ,
Proposed Rules ,
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
/ ACOs ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Comment Period ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Healthcare Reform ,
OIG ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Safe Harbors ,
Stark Law ,
Telehealth ,
Value-Based Care