AGG’s Government Investigations Team Insights provides periodic updates covering legal and regulatory topics. Our team, which includes former federal prosecutors, SEC enforcement attorneys, and federal agency attorneys, has...more
7/23/2024
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As we continue to learn more about the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), we are committed to sharing our knowledge and understanding of the bill with our clients.
In this webinar, we provided a...more
On September 9, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued its much anticipated decision in United States v. AseraCare Inc., et al., Case No. 16-13004 (11th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019), agreeing with the lower...more
On November 20, 2018, Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc. filed a petition for writ of certiorari, asking the Supreme Court to resolve circuit splits that have arisen post-Escobar regarding both the materiality and the...more
On February 12, 2018, a second judge in the Central District of California, Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald, dismissed, with leave to amend by February 26, 2018, counts in a False Claims Act (FCA) case alleging that UnitedHealth...more
On October 5, 2017, in United States of America ex rel. Swoben v. Scan Health Plan, et al. (“Swoben”), Judge John F. Walter of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted United Health...more
On July 22, 2016, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of the owner of more than 30 Miami-area skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, a hospital administrator, and a physician’s assistant in connection...more
On December 1, 2016, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced the indictment of 21 executives, physicians, surgeons, and others affiliated with Forest Park Medical Center (FPMC) in...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food and Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community, including regular updates on legislative initiatives from AGG’s Washington, DC...more
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently released its 2016 Work Plan. The Work Plan may offer evidence of a growing shift in the agency’s priorities, particularly with regard...more
On October 19, 2015, the Department of Justice (DOJ), through the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, announced that Millennium Health (formerly Millennium Laboratories) had agreed to resolve...more
10/27/2015
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On September 30, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued its fifth report in five years on billings for therapy services in SNFs. The Medicare Payment System For...more
On August 27, 2015, following notification by the government that it had decided not to intervene, the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, ordered that a qui tam complaint charging...more
9/15/2015
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On June 5, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released another study in its continuing scrutiny of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and therapy services: Skilled Nursing...more