While federal funding for addiction treatment programs and research is being cut, more than $50 billion is being distributed to state and local programs from opioid-related lawsuits. There is great debate on the use of these...more
7/22/2025
/ Allocation of Funds ,
Drug Treatment ,
Federal Funding ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Medicaid ,
Mental Health ,
Opioid ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Public Health ,
Settlement Agreements ,
State and Local Government
Employers must check its employees, contractors and vendors to see if an individual or organization is excluded from participating in federal and/or state programs. While there are a variety of exclusion programs at the...more
6/10/2024
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Exclusions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
OIG
On April 11, 2024, a jury convicted Northern Kentucky Center for Pain Clinic owner Dr. Timothy Ehn (who was not a medical doctor) and medical director, Dr. William Lawrence Seifert, for their roles in a scheme that defrauded...more
On January 13, 2023, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari1 to review the False Claims Act (“FCA”) scienter standard in two FCA whistleblower cases from the Seventh Circuit, U.S. ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu...more