Criminal Prosecution, Restitution, Healthcare Fraud

The White Collar Appeal: Second Circuit Holds That Judges Can’t Increase Sentences to Offset Reductions from the First Step Act or...

Quinn Emanuel on 9/5/2025

In a case of first impression in the federal Courts of Appeals, the Second Circuit held that district courts may not consider a defendant’s potential eligibility for a sentence reduction under the First Step Act or programs...more

Arizona AG Secures More Than $30M in Restitution After Obtaining Criminal Conviction in Health Care Fraud Scheme

Troutman Pepper Locke on 5/28/2025

On May 8, the Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County ordered a health care company to pay more than $30 million in restitution to the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) due to the company’s alleged...more

Investigations Newsletter: DOJ’s First Criminal Securities Fraud Prosecution Related to COVID-19 Results in Eight-Year Sentence

ArentFox Schiff on 10/23/2023

DOJ’s First Criminal Securities Fraud Prosecution Related to COVID-19 Results in Eight-Year Sentence - Mark Schena, the former president of Arrayit Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based medical technology company, was...more

Eleventh Circuit Affirms Order for $1.195 Million in Restitution and 48 Month Sentence in Commercial Insurance Healthcare Fraud...

McGuireWoods LLP on 7/25/2023

Last month, the Eleventh Circuit upheld a $1.195 million restitution order and 48-month sentence against Carlos Verdeza for three counts of healthcare fraud. See United States v. Verdeza, No. 21-10461, 2023 WL 3728960 (11th...more

Physician sentenced to prison for fraud that led to deaths

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/6/2021

Compliance Today (January 2021) - A Houston-area physician was sentenced to seven years in prison for healthcare fraud that resulted in the deaths of multiple patients due to opioid overdoses, as well as the death of an...more

Court Declines to Allow Defendants in Fraud Scheme to Utilize 28 U.S.C. § 2255 or Writ of Coram Nobis to Challenge Order of...

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 4/9/2018

In United States v. Rutigliano, No. 16-3754 et al., the Second Circuit (Jacobs, Raggi, Droney) refused to endorse the reduction of a restitution order against defendants who had conspired to submit fraudulent disability...more

Health Care Physicians in the Crosshairs: Criminal Prosecution

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 10/26/2015

Recent changes to our health care system have been at the forefront of the American news cycle for several years. But certain aspects have not received adequate attention. One example is the scrutiny federal and state...more

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