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DOJ Announces Largest-Ever National Healthcare Fraud Takedown and Launches New Data Fusion Center

Husch Blackwell LLP on 8/8/2025

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

False Claims Act Enforcement of Pharmacy Pricing & Prescribing Practices: The Walgreens Cases

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis on 6/10/2025

The Department of Justice has launched a number of enforcement actions targeting pharmacies for alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA). Recently, Walgreens has been the subject of two noteworthy government...more

Investigations Newsletter: Nurse Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud, Distributing Controlled Substances

ArentFox Schiff on 5/15/2023

Nurse Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud, Distributing Controlled Substances - On May 9, 2023, an advanced practice registered nurse pleaded guilty to unlawfully distributing controlled substances and committing health...more

Fraud Week: CT Behavioral Health Providers Sentenced

Rivkin Radler LLP on 5/1/2023

We’ll wrap up this edition of Fraud Week with a look at two Connecticut behavioral health providers, one bad and one very, very bad. First, Alicia Thompkins, a social worker from Hartford, pleaded guilty on April 27 to...more

OIG Issues Special Fraud Alert Warning Providers of Suspect Telemedicine Arrangements

McDermott Will & Schulte on 7/28/2022

On July 20, 2022, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert (Alert) concerning the fraud and abuse risks associated with healthcare practitioners entering...more

Summary of Fraud and Abuse Enforcement Yields Insight for Health Care Compliance and Risk Assessment

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 6/24/2022

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

Congress Takes Action to Curb the Opioid Crisis

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 11/16/2018

In a bipartisan effort to combat the opioid crisis, H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act (the Act), was enacted on October 24,...more

Recent Developments in Massachusetts Health Policy

Mintz - ML Strategies on 10/26/2015

Building on the momentum of early October hearings on the state’s growing health care expenditures, the Health Policy Commission (HPC), the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, Governor Charlie Baker, and others spent...more

Health Care Physicians in the Crosshairs: Criminal Prosecution

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 10/26/2015

Recent changes to our health care system have been at the forefront of the American news cycle for several years. But certain aspects have not received adequate attention. One example is the scrutiny federal and state...more

Mintz Levin Health Care Qui Tam Update: Recent Developments & Unsealed Cases - September 2015

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 9/22/2015

Trends & Analysis - Since our last Qui Tam Update, we have identified 39 health-related False Claims Act (“FCA”) qui tam cases that have been unsealed. Of those cases...more

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