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Massachusetts AG Indicts Health Care Providers and Owners for Submission of Allegedly False Medicaid Claims

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The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Andrea Campbell announced the criminal indictment of several Massachusetts-based health care providers and their owners in connection with allegedly false claims they...more

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Virginia Hospital Indicted for Allegedly Turning a Blind Eye to Doctor’s Crimes

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In an unusual criminal prosecution, the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center (CRMC), a hospital in Chesapeake, Virginia, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Virginia for conspiring to defraud the United States and...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

OIG January 2024 Enforcement Summary

The following is a summary of selected federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 10. Privacy Briefs: October 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 10 (October, 2022) - Thirty Democratic senators led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., have called on HHS to strengthen federal privacy protections under HIPAA to broadly restrict providers...more

Burr & Forman

Eleventh Circuit Affirms Convictions Against Florida Physician, Pharmacist for Violating Anti-Kickback Statute

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Prosecutions related to the submission of claims to Tricare for compounded pain creams continue. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed convictions against a Florida pharmacist, physician, and Navy veteran for their...more

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Indicted on Healthcare Fraud Charges? 5 Things to Expect & 3 Potential Outcomes

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is cracking down on healthcare fraud, and many providers are finding themselves facing serious allegations. This includes criminal allegations in many cases. If these allegations lead to a...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Criminal Antitrust Charge Against Healthcare Provider: Physician Founder of Florida Oncology Practice Indicted

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On September 24, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (Division) announced the second criminal antitrust charge from its ongoing investigation into market allocation and other anticompetitive...more

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Investigations Newsletter: Manufacturer to Pay Over $37.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

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DOJ News - Manufacturer to Pay Over $37.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations - On January 15, 2015, the DOJ announced that ResMed Corp., a manufacturer of durable medical equipment, agreed to pay over...more

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Investigations Newsletter: Telemarketing Business Agrees to Pay $2.5 Million to Settle FCA Allegations of Telemedicine Scheme

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Telemarketing Business Agrees to Pay $2.5 Million to Settle FCA Allegations of Telemedicine Scheme - The US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida, in collaboration with the US Attorney’s Office for the...more

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Opioids, Healthcare Enforcement, and Increased Scrutiny of Corporate Conduct for Criminal Prosecution

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The national opioid epidemic is almost unprecedented in every conceivable way—its catastrophic death toll, its broad effect on a wide swath of this country’s population, its rapid escalation (which is alleged to have been...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Hospitals, Doctors (and Others) Beware: DOJ May Apply Travel Act to Healthcare Prosecutions - Arrangements Viewed Under the...

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• A recent federal jury verdict in Dallas affirms the U.S. Department of Justice's determination to extend federal prosecutions to healthcare arrangements involving commercial payers by utilizing the federal Travel Act, which...more

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“Always a bridesmaid, never a bride” Might Work for Stark Liability but Not the Anti-Kickback Statute

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Last Thursday, a jury in federal district court in St. Louis handed down a verdict in a False Claims Act (“FCA”) case that presents a laundry list of the challenges which can arise in a FCA case. ...more

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Feds Two-Step on Texas Sovereignty has Far-Reaching Compliance Implications

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The recent federal grand jury indictment of 21 health care executives, investors, and physicians in connection with the now defunct Dallas-based Forest Park Medical Center effectively turned the Texas health care compliance...more

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