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False Claims Act Insights - Beyond Adversarialism: How to Steer FCA Investigations
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Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
Everything Compliance: Episode 157, The Q2 2025 Great Women in Compliance Edition
Great Women in Compliance: The Compliance Influencer with Bettina Palazzo
Blowing the Whistle: What Employers Should Know About DEI & the False Claims Act
When DEI Meets the FCA: What Employers Need to Know About the DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative
False Claims Act Insights - Bitter Pills: DOJ Targets Pharmacies for FCA Enforcement
False Claims Act Insights - Will Recent Leadership Changes Lead to FCA Enforcement Policy Changes?
Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: The False Claims Act
Episode 372 -- DOJ Applies False Claims Act to Tariff and Trade Violations
False Claims Act Insights - How Payment Suspensions Can Impact FCA Litigation
False Claims Act Insights - Trump DOJ Sharpens Its Focus on Healthcare Fraud
False Claims Act Insights - DOJ’s Reliance on FCA to Pursue Covid-Related Fraud
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This year’s National Health Care Fraud Takedown (Takedown) announced recently by the Department of Justice was touted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) as the largest to date, involving over $14.6 billion in “intended loss”...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
Two Pennsylvania nursing home operators were recently sentenced in federal court to pay more than $15 million in restitution in a healthcare fraud case. Comprehensive Healthcare Management Services, the operator of Brighton...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
DMERx, an online DME platform, served as the basis for a massive fraud against Medicare and other insurers. Gregory Schreck, a Kansas man who was the vice president of DMERx, orchestrated a sophisticated fraud scheme to bill...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a rare criminal indictment involving the Medicare Advantage program—a contrast from DOJ’s more typical use of its civil enforcement authority to pursue similar issues...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 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
Pharma and Life Sciences Investigations and Prosecutions: The First Two Years of the Biden Administration - With the two-year mark of the Biden presidency looming, the administration’s approach to prosecuting and...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity between October 21 and November 18, 2022, including recent enforcement activity, new litigation associated with the Office of...more
On January 14, 2021, the Department of Justice announced that it had obtained over $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments from fraud and False Claims Act cases over the previous fiscal year. More than 80 percent of False...more
Since the worldwide spread of COVID-19, the demand for telehealth services has surged. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported over an 11,000% increase in virtual visits (i.e., video- or phone-based...more
The Justice Department, in coordination with HHS-OIG and the FBI recently announced the arrest and prosecution of 35 individuals for a massive genetic testing fraud scheme involving dozens of telemedicine companies and cancer...more
Summer is winding down, and Fall texted to say she is on her way. This means that Pro Te: Solutio is returning for its third edition of 2019. As always, our authors have taken the time to research and address current issues...more
The HHS Office of Inspector General recently released a report indicating deficiencies in hospice election statements and physician certification of patient eligibility for hospice care. Medicare hospice care provides help...more
We are pleased to present our annual review of developments in the field of health law. The year was marked by key changes in False Claims Act jurisprudence and Medicare payment policy. 2016 also brought with it focused...more