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False Claims Act Insights - Beyond Adversarialism: How to Steer FCA Investigations
Episode 381 -- Cadence Design Pays $140 Million to Settle Trade Violations
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Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A Domestic Issues
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
Everything Compliance: Episode 158, The No to Corruption in Ukraine Edition
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FCPA Compliance Report: 10 Core Principles for Effective Internal Investigations with Michelle Peirce
Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 26, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
Great Women in Compliance: The Compliance Influencer with Bettina Palazzo
With the first half of 2025 in the rearview mirror, the government’s continued focus on False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement shows no signs of slowing. In fact, the Department of Justice recently announced the results of a...more
On June 30, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the largest coordinated health care fraud enforcement effort in U.S. history, involving criminal charges against over 300 defendants and over $14.6 billion in health care...more
On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly announced the next phase of the Administration’s “Whole-of-Government” approach to fighting health care...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
A Florida jury recently found two laboratory co-owners of Innovative Genomics LLC (“IGX”) not guilty in connection with an allegedly fraudulent COVID-19 testing scheme. The Government alleged that from November 2019 through...more
In remarks delivered at the Federal Bar Association’s (FBA) annual Qui Tam Section Conference, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Michael Granston reiterated the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ or the Department) commitment to...more
Health Care Cases Spur Largest FCA Recoveries - Mintz’s annual report on False Claims Act case activity analyzes data from DOJ and the firm’s Health Care Qui Tam Database, and explores the 2024 record high in FCA case...more
The Justice Department released its annual False Claims Act statistics on Wednesday, January 15, detailing the number of cases filed, recoveries made, and relators’ shares awarded in fiscal year 2024. The government recovered...more
On January 15, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced $2.9 billion in total False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries for FY 2024, a slight increase from 2023. In addition to growing recoveries, DOJ announced a new...more
In last year’s edition of EnforceMintz, we predicted that 2024 would bring an increase in False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement activity related to COVID-19 pandemic fraud. Those predictions proved correct. The COVID-19 Fraud...more
Federal Government Urges Court of Appeals to Uphold Constitutionality of FCA Qui Tam Provisions - In a brief filed earlier this week, the US federal government has urged the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the...more
San Diego Physician and Medical Practice Pay $3.8 Million to Resolve FCA Allegations- San Diego-based physician Dr. Janette J. Gray and her former medical practice, The Center for Health & Wellbeing, agreed to pay $3.8...more
Chicago Laboratory Owner Charged with Defrauding Medicare in $60 Million COVID-19 Test Kit Scheme - The Chicago-based owner of two laboratories, Zoom Labs Inc. and Western Labs Co., has been charged with health care fraud...more
On April 9, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report on the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force (“Task Force”), by far DOJ’s most comprehensive review of the Task Force since its creation in...more
The government’s continued dedication of resources to investigating and prosecuting fraud against COVID-19 pandemic relief programs appears to have borne fruit according to the results of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task...more
On February 22, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) published its annual review of cases and recoveries under the False Claims Act. Through the end of fiscal year 2023, total recoveries (across all years) under the False...more
Ballard Spahr attorneys from the firm’s Life Sciences and Health Care Industry Teams were on the ground for the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (JPM24) from January 7-10. While still less crowded than...more
A federal judge recently exposed weaknesses in the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) criminal healthcare fraud enforcement efforts by vacating a jury's conviction of a prominent Maryland doctor. On Aug. 4, 2023, a federal...more
As previously reported in this post, criminal trials premised on upcoding evaluation and management (E/M) service codes are extremely rare. The Justice Department took that rare step in Maryland in connection with a practice...more
Two Individuals Indicted for Operating $25 Million Crypto-Fraud - On December 11, a federal court in California unsealed a superseding indictment, which charged two men with operating a $25 million cryptocurrency fraud...more
The following is a summary of selected federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported...more
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Uninsured Program (UIP), which reimbursed providers for provision of COVID-19 related services to uninsured individuals, paid out more than $24.5 billion in claims....more
Government Brings FCA Action Against Laboratory Companies - On July 18, 2023, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has filed a complaint against multiple laboratory companies and their owner, Patrick...more
In April 2022, CMS announced an initiative to pay for Medicare beneficiaries to receive free OTC COVID-19 test kits. Specifically, Medicare established a demonstration project to pay various eligible healthcare providers to...more
The Biden Administration announced on Jan. 30, 2023, its intent to end the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023. Fortunately, the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) extends certain key telehealth...more