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Husch Blackwell LLP

False Claims Act Insights - Bitter Pills: DOJ Targets Pharmacies for FCA Enforcement

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Host Jonathan Porter welcomes back to the show Husch Blackwell attorney Abe Souza to discuss False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement in the pharmacy context. Pharmacies face multiple pressures, from disruptive online enterprises...more

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Swing and a Miss: the Government Strikes Out in Pharmacy Executive Kickback Trial

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Last week, the government submitted its decision to the federal court not to retry partially-acquitted pharmacy executive, Chad Beene, for conspiracy and illegal kickback allegations. At the end of last year, a New Jersey...more

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SCOTUS Rejects Defense-Friendly Scienter Standard In Schutte Opinion

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On June 1, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued its much-anticipated opinion in United States ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc. and United States ex rel. Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. (Schutte), holding...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

For the First Time, Israel Competition Authority Enforces Prohibition on Excessive Pricing

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For the first time, the Israel Competition Authority has opened enforcement proceedings against a monopolist for abuse of its dominant position by charging an unfairly high price. Subject to a hearing, the authority intends...more

Oberheiden P.C.

The Importance of a Pharmacy Compliance Program

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As federal agencies and law enforcement investigate pharmacies around the country for health care fraud and kickback schemes, pharmacies should be proactive in understanding their regulatory environment and the importance of...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

[Webinar] 2021 DWT Healthcare Regulatory and Compliance Seminar - A Virtual Series - March 18th, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT

Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance... Registrants will have the option of selecting the sessions they would like to...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

[Webinar] 2021 DWT Healthcare Regulatory and Compliance Seminar - A Virtual Series - March 16th, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT

Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance... Registrants will have the option of selecting the sessions they would like to...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

[Webinar] 2021 DWT Healthcare Regulatory and Compliance Seminar - A Virtual Series - March 11th, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT

Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance... Registrants will have the option of selecting the sessions they would like to...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

[Webinar] 2021 DWT Healthcare Regulatory and Compliance Seminar - A Virtual Series - March 9th, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT

Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance... Registrants will have the option of selecting the sessions they would like to...more

ArentFox Schiff

DOJ Goes After The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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A software developer of an electronic health records system utilizing AI is the recent target in a DOJ fraud investigation. On January 27, 2020, the DOJ announced that Practice Fusion, Inc. entered into a deferred...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Delaware Chancery Court Holds That Stockholders Had a “Proper Purpose” to Seek Board Materials From Opioid Distributor, and Orders...

In a 63-page decision issued on Jan. 13, 2020, in Lebanon County Employees’ Retirement Fund v. AmerisourceBergen Corporation, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery found that stockholders of...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

SEC-Mylan Settlement: The SEC Filed Suit Regarding Investigation Disclosure

On Sept. 27, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Mylan N.V., a global pharma company that manufactures and sells EpiPen, which is used to treat serious allergic reactions, agreed to pay $30...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Protecting Your Company From Increased Scrutiny After Release of ARCOS Opioid Data

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In July, The Washington Post published data showing approximately 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pills were purchased and sold in the Unites States from 2006 to 2012. The data came from the Automation of Reports and...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

First of Its Kind: Drug Wholesaler Accepts DPA and Two Executives Face Criminal Charges in SDNY For Illegal Distribution of...

On April 23, 2019, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with Rochester Drug Co-Operative, Inc. (RDC), one of the 10 largest wholesale distributors of pharmaceutical...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

DOJ Expands New Enforcement Tactic – Obtains TRO to Prevent Pharmacy From Dispensing Opioids

On February 8, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it obtained a temporary restraining order (TRO) in the Middle District of Tennessee against two pharmacies, their owner and three pharmacists from dispensing...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

DOJ moves to dismiss 11 False Claims Act cases

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On December 17, 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) moved to dismiss 11 False Claims Act (FCA) cases brought by whistleblowers against pharmaceutical manufacturers and their commercial outsourcing vendors, alleging that...more

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After feds bust U.S. rep for insider trading in Pharma stock, will Congress drain ethics swamp?

At a time when prescription drug prices keep skyrocketing and Americans pay hundreds of billions of dollars for medications that account for as much as 15 percent of all U.S. health care spending, federal law enforcers...more

Burr & Forman

What’s at Stake for Medical Professionals in “Pill Mill” Investigations

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In an earlier article, I detailed how the DOJ has focused its attention on the aggressive investigation and prosecution of “pill mill” cases. In this article, I discuss the consequences physicians and other medical...more

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DOJ Folds Criminal Case Against Federal Express

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In another set back last week, after a contentious criminal prosecution, the government dismissed its criminal charges against Federal Express. DOJ indicted Federal Express for drug trafficking relating to shipping of illegal...more

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The Demise of Valeant Pharmaceuticals: A Case Study in Rotten Culture and Business Ethics

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Showing my age again, Woody Allen’s Take the Money and Run included a hilarious scene when Woody’s parents wearing Groucho Marx glasses talk about their criminal son (Woody/Virgil Starkwell), his dad exclaimed “He’s rotten,...more

BakerHostetler

Latest Spike in Prescription Drug Spending Prompts OIG Investigation

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A new report released by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics shows that U.S. spending on pharmaceuticals increased in 2014 by 13.1 percent, reaching $373.9 billion. This is the highest increase since 2001 when drug...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Public Outcry Over Generic Price Hikes Spurs Criminal Investigations

Drug manufacturers Impax Laboratories and Lannett Company have come under public scrutiny and, more recently, criminal investigation for their recent generic drug price increases. The companies disclosed in recent SEC filings...more

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