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Federal Court Finds False Claims Act Penalty Unconstitutionally Excessive

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On February 26, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a significant False Claims Act (FCA) ruling in United States of America ex rel. Cheryl Taylor v. Healthcare Associates of Texas, LLC,...more

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Looking Back at 2024: Key Health Care Regulatory Legal Developments in Fraud and Abuse, Compliance, and Enforcement

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The health care regulatory space realized significant regulatory and enforcement developments in 2024 that are influencing how providers and industry stakeholders approach various compliance measures and enforcement...more

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Investigations Newsletter: First Circuit Joins Sixth and Eighth Circuits in Adopting Heightened, But-For Causation Standard for...

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First Circuit Joins Sixth and Eighth Circuits in Adopting Heightened, But-For Causation Standard for AKS-Based FCA Claims - On February 18, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit became the latest court to agree...more

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True Facts About False Claims: MoFo's FCA Newsletter - October 2024

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Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter seeks to bring you up to speed on key federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) developments, with links to primary resources. Each quarter, we...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - January 27th, Lake Buena Vista, FL

Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance education, including updates on the latest news in regulatory...more

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UPIC and ZPIC Audits Defense: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know

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Zone Program Integrity Contractors (ZPICs) and Unified Program Integrity Contractors (UPICs) are federal contractors who work under the direction of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to uncover fraudulent...more

Stoel Rives - Health Law Insider®

AKS and Medicare Advantage Plans: Don’t Kickback and Relax!

Health care attorneys have long questioned whether there are significant Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) risks associated with financial transactions between Medicare Advantage plans and their participating providers. An ongoing...more

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District Court Dismisses Hospice False Claims Act Case Where Relator Failed to Identify False Records or Claims

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On June 26, 2019, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio granted a motion to dismiss a qui tam lawsuit against HCR ManorCare Inc. and its subsidiaries, including Heartland Hospice Services, LLC...more

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Sutter Health LLC Pays $30 Million to Settle Alleged Overpayment of Medicare Advantage Funds, but Faces Similar Allegations in...

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On April 12, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Sutter Health LLC—along with its affiliates Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation, Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, and Sutter...more

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DOJ Intervenes in Another Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment FCA Suit

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On December 11, 2018, the United States announced that it has elected to intervene in a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit filed against Sutter Health and its affiliated entity Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) alleging that...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Skeletons in the Closet? Beware of Potential Enforcement Actions

With Halloween looming, a discussion of skeletons that may be lurking in a health care provider’s closet is timely. Many of our previous posts, as well as the monthly Qui Tam Updates published by our Health Care Enforcement...more

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Mintz Levin Health Care Qui Tam Update: Recently Unsealed Whistleblower Cases: October 2015

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Trends & Analysis: ..We have identified 15 health care–related qui tam cases that were unsealed since our last Qui Tam Update. Of those, 12 were filed from 2012 to the present. All but two cases had been pending more...more

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Pricing Issues Affecting Laboratories

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Craig Holden co-presented "New Compliance Red Flags Workshop," a workshop hosted by G2 Intelligence. Over the past five years, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services have recovered $19.2 billion from...more

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