On May 6th, we posted about the possibility that the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) might dramatically increase False Claims Act (“FCA”) penalties after the Railroad Retirement Board (“RRB”) nearly doubled the per-claim...more
Like many before it, this year has been one to watch in government health care fraud enforcement efforts. In September 2015, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released the “Yates Memo,” which reaffirmed the government’s...more
6/28/2016
/ Acquittals ,
Affirmative Defenses ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Good Faith ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Jury Instructions ,
Kickbacks ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
Yates Memorandum
The already enormous per-claim penalties under the federal False Claims Act (“FCA”) may nearly double by August 1, 2016, ratcheting up the stakes of FCA cases for health care providers, pharmaceutical and medical device...more
Much like the rest of the health care world, we have been following the AseraCare case since May of last year when the Alabama federal district court granted AseraCare’s motion to bifurcate its False Claims Act (FCA) trial...more
Last week, a jury in Alabama federal court sided with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and qui tam relators in the first part of a False Claims Act (FCA) case against AseraCare Inc., a provider of hospice and palliative care...more
10/21/2015
/ Bifurcation ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
False Billing ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Hospice ,
Jury Trial ,
Medicare ,
Qui Tam ,
Relators ,
Statistical Sampling ,
Treble Damages
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that ev3 Inc. (which acquired Fox Hollow Technologies, Inc. (“Fox Hollow”), a medical device manufacturer, in late 2007) agreed to pay $1.25 million to resolve allegations...more
Last week, the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an indictment charging Vascular Solutions Inc. (VSI) and its CEO Howard Root with (1) selling medical devices without the approval of the U.S. Food...more
On Wednesday, during a speech before the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund conference in Washington, D.C., Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division, announced...more