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False Claims Act Insights - Beyond Adversarialism: How to Steer FCA Investigations
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Compliance Clarity for Federal Contractors with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of Arbor Consulting Group
Great Women in Compliance: LATAM Compliance Update with Alejandra Montenegro Almonte
AI and the False Claims Act
False Claims Act Insights - The Mathematics of Nuclear FCA Verdicts
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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Criminal Health Care Fraud Enforcement: Projections for 2025 and Beyond – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
Host Jonathan Porter welcomes Husch Blackwell partner Todd Gee to the program to discuss why establishing a good working relationship with the Department of Justice is important and how to accomplish that while remaining a...more
The Trump Administration intends to leave a strong enforcement mark on fraud and trade enforcement. DOJ is linking together trade enforcement and False Claims Act cases in an unprecedented manner that will open up new...more
A competitor could trigger a federal investigation against your company, just by filing a whistleblower complaint about your imports. In this episode, Michael Volkov explores how the Trump Administration is reshaping the...more
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has deployed its Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit to target tariff evasion, a clear sign of the escalation of trade enforcement. The Criminal Division’s specialized unit,...more
As we reported in our recent client alert, the Trump administration has made clear that it is committed to using the False Claims Act (FCA) to prosecute healthcare fraud. Two recent Trump administration moves give important...more
IT Company Resolves FCA Allegations for Nearly $15 Million - On July 14, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Hill ASC Inc., an information technology (IT) staffing company, agreed to pay $14.75 million to...more
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has announced a new Whistleblower Rewards Program, offering incentives to individuals to report “antitrust crimes and related offenses that harm consumers, taxpayers, and free...more
DOJ’s ability to bring False Claims Act actions against companies for customs fraud was affirmed in a significant Ninth Circuit decision, United States ex rel. Island Industries Inc. v. Sigma Corp., No. 22‑55063, __ F.4th __...more
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
Federal Court Imposes Nearly $1 Billion in FCA Damages and Penalties Against Omnicare and CVS - On July 7, Southern District of New York District Judge Colleen McMahon increased a False Claims Act (FCA) judgment from $136...more
On July 2, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the formation of the DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group to strengthen “their ongoing collaboration to advance...more
Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Loeffler has announced that she has ordered the SBA Office of General Contracting and Business Development to begin a full scale audit of the SBA’s Section 8(a) Business...more
Earlier this week, the government unsealed an indictment against Leo Joseph Govoni, the co-founder of the nonprofit Center for Special Needs Trust Administration (CSNT), and John Leo Witeck, an accountant for CSNT, charging...more
DOJ Criminal Division Head Details White-Collar Enforcement Priorities and Related Policy Revisions - On June 10, the head of the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division, Matthew R. Galeotti, gave a speech...more
The Deputy Attorney General of the United States has made it clear that the Department of Justice intends to enforce the False Claims Act (FCA) in a way it never has before: in the pursuit of civil rights fraud. Listen as...more
CEO of Health Care Software Company Convicted of $1 Billion in Medicare Fraud - A federal jury in Miami convicted Gary Cox, the CEO of Power Mobility Doctor Rx, LLC, of six health care-fraud-related counts for his role in...more
On May 19, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the launch of the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative (the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative), which will use the federal False Claims Act (FCA) to pursue claims against recipients...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed this week that it will be using the False Claims Act (FCA) to investigate recipients of federal funds that the agency determines have certified compliance with federal...more
FCA Complaint Filed Against One of Nation’s Largest Specialty Wound Care Providers - On April 4, the government filed a complaint against Vohra Wound Physicians Management LLC, its founder, Dr. Ameet Vohra, and VHS...more
K-12 school districts across the country now face a tight deadline to navigate a minefield with significant legal and funding implications. ...more
Bass, Berry & Sims is pleased to announce the release of the 13th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review examining important healthcare fraud developments in 2024. Compiled by the firm's Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Task Force,...more
On December 6, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) released the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2023 (the Report). The Report...more
On November 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the Medicare regulations interpreting the federal 60-day overpayment refund requirement (the Overpayment Statute) for Medicare Parts A and B as...more
In recent months, NIH signaled that it, in the words of Director Monica Bertagnolli, understands the “difficult climate for our valued Asian American, Asian immigrant and Asian research colleagues who may feel targeted and...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