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Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for June 2025

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

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Investigations Newsletter: President Trump Puts a “Pause” on FCPA Enforcement

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President Trump Puts a “Pause” on FCPA Enforcement - On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) pausing the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). According to the EO, the pause will...more

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Investigations Newsletter: Massachusetts District Court Judge Applies Heightened Causation Standard in FCA Case

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Massachusetts District Court Judge Applies Heightened Causation Standard in FCA Case - On January 6, a District Court of Massachusetts judge granted summary judgment for defendants on allegations of violating the...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Outlook for 2025

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Intensifying international crises, increasing regulatory burdens, and uncertain macroeconomic conditions have led to an era of caution for manufacturers, but hidden among those challenges are exciting opportunities for...more

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Investigations Newsletter: FCA Enforcement & Compliance Digest — Summer 2024 False Claims Act Newsletter

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Welcome to the Summer 2024 issue of “FCA Enforcement & Compliance Digest,” our quarterly newsletter in which we compile essential updates on False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement trends, litigation, agency guidance, and...more

K&L Gates LLP

The False Claims Act and Health Care: 2023 Recoveries and 2024 Outlook

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On 22 February 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) published the statistics for federal civil fraud recoveries in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. The DOJ announced that the “government and whistleblowers were party to 543...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

The DOJ’s New Pilot Programs: A Bane for Compliance Programs

For years, Department of Justice officials have stressed how important chief compliance officers are as the first line of defense in fighting corporate crimes. While that’s true, compliance programs now have a competitor in...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

DOJ Says You Can Put the Fire Out From Inside the House: New Voluntary Self-Disclosure Program Seeks to Root Out Corporate Crime...

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Introduction: On April 15, 2024, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division announced a new Pilot Program on Voluntary Self-Disclosure for Individuals. Under this program, individuals who voluntarily disclose certain...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

False Claims Act Enforcement Highlights Need for Robust Compliance Programs

The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced its False Claims Act (“FCA”) enforcement statistics for FY 2023 and identified key priorities for FCA enforcement in 2024 and beyond. The DOJ continues to pursue FCA...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Health-Care Fraud Scrutiny Heats Up For Companies, Providers

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This year will see a continued proliferation of enforcement against health-care fraud, with old and new theories. Some hot spots for enforcement will involve cases about new technologies; data outliers; entities perceived as...more

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Investigations Newsletter: Binance to Pay Historic $4 Billion Fine

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Binance to Pay Historic $4 Billion Fine - Binance Holdings Limited, the operator of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, agreed to pay $4.3 billion to resolve allegations that it violated the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

HHS Office of Inspector General August 2023 Enforcement Activity

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

McDermott Will & Emery

Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | April 2023 Recap

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for April 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions related to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Current Trends and Real-World Best Practices in Healthcare Fraud Compliance

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Recently, Womble Bond Dickinson held its First Annual Health Care Fraud Symposium, a webinar designed to discuss critical healthcare fraud topics. WBD Partner Joe Whitley moderated a discussion with WBD attorneys Luke Cass,...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

OIG Enforcement Summary: July 16, 2022 – July 31, 2022

The following is a summary of the 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 are...more

Kaufman & Canoles

Special Fraud Alert Released by OIG Following Nationwide Arrest of Dozens Accused in Telehealth Scams

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On July 20, 2022, the Department of Justice announced charges against 36 criminal defendants across 13 different federal districts for healthcare fraud violations resulting in Government losses in excess of $1.2 billion. The...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 39. News Briefs: November 2020

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 39 (November 2, 2020) - Medtronic USA Inc., a medical device maker, has agreed to pay $8.1 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce...more

The Volkov Law Group

Universal Health Agrees to Pay $122 Million for False Claims Act Violations

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DOJ announced a False Claims Act settlement with Universal Health (“UHS”) and related companies for $122 million for billing for medically unnecessary inpatient behavioral health services, failing to provide adequate services...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Enforcement Spotlight: US Prosecutors Continue To Target Medical Technology Companies

Health care fraud continues to be a top enforcement priority for U.S. prosecutors, and nowhere is this more true than for the medical technology sector. From 2014-2019, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) brought enforcement...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Justice Department recovers more than $3 billion from False Claims Act cases in FY 2019

Compliance Today (March 2020) - In January, Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division announced that it “obtained more than $3 billion in settlements and judgments from civil...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 9. News Briefs: March 2020

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 9 (March 9, 2020) - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said March 5 it has filed a False Claims Act complaint against SpineFrontier Inc., Impartial Medical...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 6. News Briefs: February 2020 #3

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 6 (February 17, 2020) - Tenet Healthcare Corp. and an affiliated hospital, Desert Regional Medical Center, have agreed to pay $1.41 million to settle False Claims Act (FCA)...more

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Another Guilty Verdict in a FCPA Trial – Mark Lambert

Last Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) secured another trial court conviction in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prosecution involving an individual. Following on the heels of the Hoskins guilty verdict, it...more

The Volkov Law Group

Department of Justice Brings Criminal Charges Against 35 Individuals for Involvement in $2.1 Billion in Fraudulent Genetic Testing...

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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

King & Spalding

Q3 2019: Latin America Enforcement Review

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Enforcement authorities throughout the United States and the Americas continue to aggressively investigate fraud and corruption across the region in the third quarter of 2019. Below, we highlight some recent developments and...more

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