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Whistleblower Watch is a comprehensive source for all False Claims Act (FCA) news and information. Every quarter, Cozen O’Connor will provide in-house counsel and compliance professionals with a summary of the most notable...more
Seabrook Rehab Center to Pay $19.75 Million for FCA Violations - A New Jersey drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, Seabrook, will pay $19.75 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by...more
Home Health Care Company to Pay $3 Million to Resolve FCA Allegations - The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Saad Enterprises Incorporated, operating as Saad Healthcare, agreed to pay $3 million to resolve...more
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
In January, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act (FCA) exceeded $2.9 billion in fiscal year 2024, bringing the total amount of settlements and judgments under the...more
Massachusetts District Court Judge Applies Heightened Causation Standard in FCA Case - On January 6, a District Court of Massachusetts judge granted summary judgment for defendants on allegations of violating the...more
The Department of Justice published its False Claims Act (FCA) statistics for Fiscal Year 2024 this month, revealing a nearly 40% increase in whistleblower filings, increased recoveries year over year, and a near record...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
Judge Orders Government to Pay Relators a Cut of FCA Settlement - On November 4, a federal judge from the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts ordered the government to pay the relators’ share of a...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
On March 27, 2020, the CARES Act was signed into law to provide emergency financial assistance to Americans suffering the economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, including in the form of forgivable loans to small...more
Despite the recent downward trend in DOJ healthcare industry settlements, the first quarter of 2024 saw many noteworthy False Claims Act (FCA) and civil healthcare fraud settlements related to alleged kickbacks, medically...more
DOJ’s FCA Recoveries Were Lowest Level Since 2008 - On February 7, 2023, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released statistics about False Claim Act (FCA) settlements and judgments for the 2022 fiscal year. Total...more
$31 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Results in Two Convictions - On January 30, 2023, a federal jury found two Florida physicians guilty for their involvement in a scheme to defraud Medicare of over $31 million. The two...more
Physician Partners of America’s settlement highlights significant risks facing False Claims Act defendants who received Paycheck Protection Program funds. An April 2022 US Department of Justice (DOJ) settlement suggests...more
On September 13, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Southern District of Texas announced that it had reached a settlement with a bank that served as a lender under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to...more
The government has been actively investigating and prosecuting Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP” or the “Program”) fraud ever since the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) rolled out the Program in the Spring of...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on September 12, the first-ever False Claims Act (FCA) settlement with a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) lender. Prosperity Bank, a Texas-based regional bank, agreed to pay...more
In response to “a series of sensational congressional investigations into the sale of provisions and munitions to the War Department” where “the United States had been billed for nonexistent or worthless goods, charged...more
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was intended to provide a fast influx of assistance to small businesses during the economic shock created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The speed with which loans were distributed to...more
DOJ Continues To Prosecute PPP Fraud - Earlier this week, Ana Soto of Newark, Delaware pled guilty to fraudulently obtaining and spending money received through Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loans. Between March...more
The Department of Justice recently reported that in fiscal year 2021, it received more than $5.6 billion in settlements and judgments. Of that total, over $5 billion relates to matters that involved the health care industry....more
The Department of Justice announced in a February 1, 2022 press release (Press Release) that it obtained more than $5.6 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims in the fiscal year...more
CEO of Defunct Medical Testing Lab to Pay $1.1 Million to Settle FCA and AKS Case - Jae Lee, the former CEO of defunct Northwest Physicians Laboratory (NWPL), agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve allegations that he...more
In the last year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has brought more than 100 criminal cases relating to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Fraud. These criminal prosecutions started at a blistering pace, with the first...more