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Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the ECCTA and Its Impact on Fraud Prevention with Vince Walden
Everything Compliance: Episode 158, The No to Corruption in Ukraine Edition
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Daily Compliance News: July 31, 2025 the Forgotten Generation Edition
Understanding BBB Ratings: Building Trust and Mitigating Risks — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the UK’s New Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense with Sam Tate
Everything Compliance: Episode 157, The Q2 2025 Great Women in Compliance Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 22, 2025, The I-9 Hell Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Avoiding CCO Liability
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 55 – The From Worse to Worser Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 17, 2025, The COSO Yanked Edition
Wire Fraud Litigants Beware: Fourth Circuit Ruling Protects the Banks — The Consumer Finance Podcast
All Things Investigation: Due Diligence and Drama: A Deep Dive into Art World with Daniel Weiner
Daily Compliance News: July 14, 2025, The Secret Business Sauce-Reading Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles: Uncovering Compliance – Lessons from The Hound of the Baskervilles
Compliance Tip of the Day: Lessons from Internal Control Failures
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
Compliance Tip of the Day: Assessing Internal Controls
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
Key Takeaways - DOJ’s 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown was a record-breaking operation that resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants and targeted schemes involving over $14.6 billion in intended losses....more
DTC Telehealth Platforms - Arrangements involving telemedicine and direct-to-consumer (“DTC”) business services are expected to be a source of major regulatory scrutiny. In 2024, such arrangements were the focus of proposed...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) have historically focused their virtual health care enforcement efforts on “traditional”...more
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently released its “Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2022” (the “Report”), highlighting...more
Whenever new technologies emerge or new pots of government funds for assistance are available, you can count on one thing (as the sun rises and sets) – fraudsters will figure out a way to steal money from innocent persons and...more
Recently, Womble Bond Dickinson held its First Annual Health Care Fraud Symposium, a webinar designed to discuss critical healthcare fraud topics. WBD Partner Joe Whitley moderated a discussion with WBD attorneys Luke Cass,...more
This is the third part in our 2023 series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations. Up next: congressional investigations. Health care fraud enforcement remained a top priority at both the national...more
On July 20, 2022, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert cautioning physicians and other health care practitioners to use “heightened scrutiny” when entering into telemedicine arrangements that...more
On July 20, 2022, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued a special fraud alert (“Alert”) advising “practitioners to exercise caution when entering into arrangements with...more
DOJ Attorneys Comment on the Rise of Telehealth Fraud During the COVID-19 Pandemic - During the 2022 Qui Tam Conference of the Federal Bar Association, DOJ attorneys commented on the dramatic rise in the use of remote...more
This is the first post in this year’s series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations. Join us in the weeks ahead as we provide updates on new developments and emerging trends in a number of white...more
Telehealth services may be at a crossroads. While the COVID-19 pandemic brought about widespread adoption of telehealth services, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of...more
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is expected to prompt unprecedented levels of regulatory enforcement activity that is focused on the use of telemedicine. In fact, fraudulent and abusive telehealth practices was an...more
On May 26, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced criminal charges against 14 defendants in six states for participation in healthcare fraud schemes related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The coordinated takedown involved...more
On February 4, 2021, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), Office of Public Affairs, issued a Press Release (the “DOJ Press Release”) announcing that Kelly Wolfe, President of Regency, Inc., a medical billing company located in...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
With 2020 officially behind us, what does 2021 have in store for telemedicine and digital health policy? A year ago, our team predicted 2020 would bring “notable expansions in Medicare and Medicaid coverage” and “the...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 US Department of Justice and the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General recently announced a significant healthcare fraud takedown involving $4.5 billion in allegedly false and fraudulent...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) have released the 2019 annual report for their Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program. The government recovered almost $3.6 billion,...more