Recently, Attorney General Pam Bondi purportedly issued an internal memorandum in response to Executive Order 14187 (“Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation”) concerning the treatment of transgender minors...more
5/23/2025
/ Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Gender Identity ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Minors ,
New Legislation ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physicians ,
Transgender
Host Jonathan Porter is joined by Husch Blackwell partners Jody Rudman and Lorinda Holloway to discuss the implications of a September 2024 federal court decision from the Middle District of Florida that strikes down the...more
A federal judge in Florida issued a ruling this week holding that the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act (FCA) are unconstitutional. In the lawsuit, a relator named Clarissa Zafirov accused the defendants of violating...more
10/8/2024
/ Article II ,
En Banc Review ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Florida ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Medicare ,
Qui Tam ,
Relators ,
Take Care Clause ,
Unconstitutional Condition ,
United States ex rel Polansky v Executive Health Resources Inc
Host Jonathan Porter welcomes Husch Blackwell’s Lorinda Holloway to explore settlements in the context of False Claims Act (FCA) litigation. Jonathan and Lorinda discuss the differences between FCA settlements and those...more
The Supreme Court issued a number of headline-grabbing decisions this term on topics like religious accommodation, LGBTQ protections, and consideration of race in college admissions. These decisions are wide-reaching and...more
7/7/2023
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hospitals ,
Materiality ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physicians ,
Protected Activity ,
Public Disclosure ,
Reasonable Interpretations ,
Relators ,
Retaliation ,
SCOTUS ,
Subjective Standard ,
United States ex rel Polansky v Executive Health Resources Inc ,
Universal Health Services Inc v United States ex rel Escobar ,
US ex rel Thomas Proctor v Safeway Inc ,
US ex rel Tracy Schutte et al v SuperValu Inc et al
Following two weeks of trial testimony, a Travis County jury recently rendered a $10 million verdict in a novel corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) case. The jury found in favor of a physician hospitalist group that claimed...more
Due to expanded COVID-19 diagnostic testing availability, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MDHSS) is encouraging providers to test both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals, if the clinician’s...more
On Monday, April 13, 2020, your Husch Blackwell Healthcare team published a Client Alert outlining the Best Practices Related to Public Health and Social Services Emergency (Relief) Fund Payments. Here we outline the risks of...more