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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
COVID-19 Fraud Update: DOJ Prosecutes More than 150 Defendants, 95 Criminal Cases - Since the inception of the CARES Act, DOJ’s Fraud Section has prosecuted over 150 defendants in over 95 criminal cases. The Fraud Section...more
DOJ Announces Charges Against 138 Defendants for Alleged Health Care Fraud Schemes Resulting in $1.4 Billion in Losses, with Focus on Telemedicine - On September 17, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced criminal...more
New York Pharmacy Owners Charged in $30 Million COVID-19 Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Case - On December 21, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that two owners of over a dozen New York-area...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
DOJ Announces $72.3 Million False Claims Act Settlement - Oklahoma Center for Orthopaedic and Multi-Specialty Surgery, its part-owner and management company, a physician group, and other affiliated entities and individuals...more
In the advent of DNA testing, companies such as Ancestry.com and 23andMe have made it easy and convenient to submit DNA samples for testing from your own home. This type of genetic—also known as genomic—testing has been...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
In one of the largest ever health care fraud schemes charged by the Department of Justice, cancer genetic testing and telemedicine are at the center of the scheme. On September 27, the DOJ announced charges against 35...more