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Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
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Episode 377 -- Refocusing Due Diligence on Cartels and TCOs
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In a brief press release published on July 9, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the issuance of more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics as part of investigations into health care fraud, false statements,...more
On Monday, the Department of Justice Criminal Division, led by Matthew R. Galeotti, announced its largest healthcare fraud enforcement charging individuals and entities across the globe in allegedly $14.6 billion criminal and...more
The DOJ announced on June 30 an unprecedented Health Care Fraud Takedown resulting in criminal charges against 324 defendants (including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and other licensed providers), with an...more
In the largest health care fraud takedown in U.S. history, the Justice Department announced charges against 324 individuals—including 96 licensed medical professionals—in connection with schemes involving over $14.6 billion...more
Two Charged in Alleged $227 Million COVID-19 Test Kit Fraud - Syed Murtuza Kablazada and Mehdi Hussain, the owners and operators of medical laboratories in Illinois, were charged with submitting more than $227 million in...more
Seventh Circuit Reverses AKS Conviction Involving Allegations of Illegal Marketing and Advertising - On April 14, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the criminal conviction of Mark Sorensen after a...more
Last week, the US District Court for the District of Idaho entered another preliminary injunction prohibiting enforcement of Idaho’s Total Abortion Ban (IC § 18-622) if the abortion is necessary to stabilize a pregnant woman...more
Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Jackson upheld a doctor’s conviction under Section 301(k) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), 21 USC § 331(k) (Section 301(k)), for...more
On January 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a federal grand jury indicted the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Virginia for conspiracy to defraud the United States and health care...more
In an unusual criminal prosecution, the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center (CRMC), a hospital in Chesapeake, Virginia, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Virginia for conspiring to defraud the United States and...more
On January 8, 2025, a federal grand jury in Virginia returned an indictment against a hospital. This rare criminal event in healthcare alleges that Chesapeake Regional Medical Center conspired to defraud the United States and...more
In 2022, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced its decision to shut down the “China Initiative”—the controversial program used to investigate and prosecute academics, health care workers, and...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for March 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity and developments occurring in January 2023, including several criminal and civil enforcement actions related to the federal...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently taken a renewed interest in management services organizations (MSOs), including physician-syndicated MSOs in which physician-owners provide medical services in exchange for...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual summary of False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries for the prior fiscal year, and the data points to a number of notable trends. Although DOJ brought in the second-highest...more
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it has filed charges against 36 defendants in relation to an alleged health care fraud scheme that resulted in approximately $1.2 billion in fraudulent payments....more
The current labor market is fraught with challenges for employers. In the wake of the COVID-19 market disruptions, the demand for employees, especially for experienced or highly trained employees, far exceeds the supply....more
Civil lawsuits are an unavoidable and expected consequence of operating in a heavily regulated industry. While CEOs and other pharmaceutical executives may lose sleep over the outcome of civil trials and the potential...more
On April 20, 2022, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a nationwide coordinated law enforcement action focused on COVID-19-related healthcare fraud. In total, DOJ brought criminal charges against 21 individuals,...more
On March 30, 2022, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Manual J. Bojorquez, the owner of a marketing company, was sentenced to 36 months’ probation and ordered to pay restitution of $3.3 million for...more
Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 2 (January 27, 2022) - The trial was to be like any other that the clinical research organization (CRO) would oversee. The six-month study, known as VESTRI, would involve pediatric...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is cracking down on healthcare fraud, and many providers are finding themselves facing serious allegations. This includes criminal allegations in many cases. If these allegations lead to a...more
Compliance Today (March 2021) - According to a recent U.S. Department of Justice news release, Yvelice Villaman Bencosme, a Miami, Florida, doctor and the primary investigator for clinical trials designed to investigate...more
Ensuring compliance with the False Claims Act has never been more important for healthcare providers. By March 2020, we saw healthcare professionals standing at the forefront of one of the greatest health crises in a...more