Hospice Insights Podcast - Where’s the Line: When Does Poor Quality Create False Claims Liability
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 248: Fighting Addiction and Expanding Access to Treatment with Sara Howe and Morgan Coyner of APNC
False Claims Act Insights - An FCA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare Industry
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
AI and the False Claims Act
False Claims Act Insights - Bitter Pills: DOJ Targets Pharmacies for FCA Enforcement
Hospice Insights Podcast - Election Inspection: Be Proactive to Avoid Costly Election Statement Denials
The Trend of Threatening Physicians for Personal Gain
Daily Compliance News: June 17, 2025, The JBS Goes Public Edition
False Claims Act Insights - Will Recent Leadership Changes Lead to FCA Enforcement Policy Changes?
Daily Compliance News: June 16, 2025, The Golden Share Edition
Hospice Insights Podcast - Still Number One: Healthcare Fraud Remains Central in DOJ’s White Collar Enforcement Plan
False Claims Act Insights - How Payment Suspensions Can Impact FCA Litigation
Daily Compliance News: May 16, 2025, The Ethics Nightmare Edition
False Claims Act Insights - Trump DOJ Sharpens Its Focus on Healthcare Fraud
How Life Sciences Companies Can Create a Culture of Compliance When Expanding to the U.S. Market
False Claims Act Insights - DOJ’s Reliance on FCA to Pursue Covid-Related Fraud
UPIC Audits
Criminal Health Care Fraud Enforcement: Projections for 2025 and Beyond – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 10: Anti-Kickback Compliance for Hospice and Skilled Nursing Providers
This issue of McDermott Will & Schulte’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for July 2025, including the results of the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, DOJ...more
Substandard quality care is the subject of survey citations and lawsuits, but it has also been used by the Justice Department to support false claim liability. While historically these cases were rare, a recent multi-million...more
Heath care fraud remains a top priority for the DOJ. This year’s National Health Care Fraud Takedown was the biggest in United States history, resulting in the prosecution of 324 defendants in connection with over $14.6...more
There is a widely held view that the current Justice Department (DOJ) is deemphasizing white collar enforcement. While this may be true in some areas, it is certainly not the case when it comes to health care fraud. Rather,...more
Allied Stone Inc. and Its President Agree to Pay $12.4 Million to Settle FCA Claims Relating to Evaded Customs Duties - On August 19, Allied Stone Inc., an Oklahoma corporation headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and its...more
Texas Alleges That Eli Lilly Patient Assistance Programs Violates AKS - The state of Texas and Health Choice Alliance, LLC filed a complaint alleging that pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly & Company, Inc. violated the...more
The US Department of Justice’s settlement with Illumina, Inc. is a first-of-its-kind involving alleged cybersecurity deficiencies causing violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) based on FDA quality standards. The...more
Regeneron Court Permits Government to Pursue False Certification Theory - On August 4, the district court in the closely watched Regeneron case granted the government’s request to file a second partial summary judgment...more
The federal government has demonstrated that it is more than willing to use the United States criminal code to prosecute home care agencies that pay unlawful financial inducements to generate referrals in violation of the...more
In June 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, marking the largest coordinated healthcare fraud enforcement action in DOJ history. The sweep included charges against a...more
On July 31, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement in United States ex rel. Lenore v. Illumina, Inc, the first case in which underlying cybersecurity issues formed the basis of a settlement under the...more
An article in the August issue of Healthcare Risk Management, “DOJ Targeting Healthcare for False Claims Act Enforcement,” discussed recent enforcement activity by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under the False Claims...more
Much has been written about the healthcare policy changes implemented by the 2025 Trump administration. President Trump has issued numerous Executive Orders that establish new policies and rescind actions taken by previous...more
On July 16, 49 attorneys general (AGs) announced that they joined a $202 million settlement with Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Gilead). Previously announced by the Department of Justice in April, the settlement resolved allegations...more
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced the relaunch of the DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group, intended to “strengthen[] [the agencies’] ongoing...more
Just months after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) designated healthcare fraud as one of its key criminal enforcement priorities, two recent announcements underscore the federal government’s continued focus on combating...more
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,...more
Introduction - The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has doubled down on eliminating healthcare fraud in government programs, including through the launch of new inter-agency groups in both the Civil and Criminal Divisions,...more
A pharmaceutical company is currently appealing a record USD1.6 billion judgment in the US, arguing that a key part of the US False Claims Act (FCA) is unconstitutional. This case, now before the Court of Appeals for the...more
The False Claims Act continues to be one of the most commonly used weapons in the government’s enforcement arsenal to address various forms of fraud. In addition to our “Year in Review” publication providing an overview of...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in United States v. Regeneron, has joined the Sixth and Eighth Circuits in adopting the “but-for” standard to find that a violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) triggers...more
As the second Trump Administration concludes its sixth month, the U.S. Department of Justice has identified its top False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement priorities...more
The Trump administration recently announced the renewal of a new cross-agency collaboration between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the form of the DOJ-HHS False Claims...more
The health care industry – already bracing for the financial impact of Medicaid cuts – faces another hard truth: This administration isn’t slowing the pace of health care fraud enforcement. Rather, it’s doubling down on...more
On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the reestablishment of the DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group. Originally formed in December 2020 at...more