The Trump administration recently announced the renewal of a new cross-agency collaboration between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the form of the DOJ-HHS False Claims...more
7/22/2025
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In a unanimous panel opinion filed on February 18, 2025, the First Circuit held that False Claims Act cases predicated on violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”), require proof that alleged kickbacks were the...more
2/21/2025
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