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New Jersey Enacts Key Legislation Addressing Kickbacks and Deceptive Marketing Practices in the Substance Use Disorder Treatment...

On August 11, 2025, New Jersey’s Acting Governor, Tahesha Way, signed into law two bills to combat patient brokering and deceptive marketing practices in the Substance Use Disorder (“SUD”) treatment industry. The legislation,...more

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New State-Level Anti-Kickback Statute Expands Minnesota AG’s Power to Prosecute Healthcare Fraud

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On May 23, 2025, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed the Human Services omnibus policy bill into law, which included in part, the addition of a new statutory provision in the state’s criminal code, Chapter 609....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Behavioral health compliance through deterrence - March 9th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CT

Learning objectives: - If presented with the opportunity to open a behavioral health company and the offer sounds too good to be true, it most likely is. - Do not sign documents if they are blank or you are being...more

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DOJ Announces Another Wide-Ranging COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Action

For the last few years, we have been closely monitoring and reporting on COVID-19 related fraud enforcement efforts by federal agencies. We detailed those findings in our Health Care Enforcement 2020 Year in Review & 2021...more

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Senate Judiciary Committee Votes to Approve Amendments to the False Claims Act

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In July 2021, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill, S. 2428, entitled the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021 ("S. 2428"), which proposed substantive and procedural amendments to the False Claims Act ("FCA")....more

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief

False Claims Act Spotlight (1 of 3): Sub-Regulatory Guidance Subjugated No More in FCA Enforcement Actions

The False Claims Act (“FCA”) is a punitive civil statute that acts as the federal government’s primary tool for combatting fraud in government health care programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare. In fiscal year 2020...more

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Pandemic Fraud

This is the seventh in our First 100 Days series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the early days of the Biden administration. Our previous entry was on FCA enforcement. Up next, healthcare...more

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The “New” Enforcers: How States and Localities Are Changing the Landscape of Regulatory Authority

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Over the last decade, observers have noted that states have begun to play a greater role as regulatory enforcers – a trend that increased with the federal regulatory roll-back that began with the advent of the Trump...more

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Senator Grassley Drafting Legislation to Potentially Limit DOJ Dismissal Power in FCA Cases

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Senator Chuck Grassley plans to propose legislation that would require the US Department of Justice to state its reasons for dismissal of qui tam cases over the objection of the relator. ...more

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“Brand Memo” from the U.S. Department of Justice: Reading Between the Lines

On January 25, 2018, Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand issued a memo on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prohibiting certain DOJ uses of federal agency guidance documents in affirmative civil enforcement...more

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