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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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In Biggest Stark-Based FCA Settlement Ever, Indiana Hospital Pays $345M, Has Unusual CIA

Community Health Network (CHN) in Indiana has agreed to pay $345 million to settle false claims allegations that it paid over-the-top salaries to hundreds of physicians and rewarded them for their referrals in violation of...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

HHS Releases Groundbreaking General Compliance Program Guidance, Setting New Standards for Healthcare Entities

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On November 6, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and practical general compliance guidance in decades. The new...more

Harris Beach PLLC

HHS Office of Inspector General August 2023 Enforcement Activity

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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)

[Event] 2023 Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 5th - 7th, Washington, DC

Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - December 9th, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm EST

General and specialty compliance training from the comfort of your home or office! HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide practitioners with virtual compliance training that includes updates on the...more

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DOJ Announces Increased Focus on Digital Asset Crime with Newly Formed Digital Asset Coordinator Network

On Friday, September 16, 2022, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced a formalized focus on digital asset abuse by publically releasing a 46 page report on the Role of Law Enforcement in Detecting, Investigating, and...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

2022 Federal Compliance Enforcement Outlook

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There is almost universal agreement regarding predictions for 2022 federal enforcement in the following areas: ..The use of fraudulently obtained COVID relief funds in both healthcare and in general, but specifically as...more

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Key Elements of an OIG Compliance Program That Respiratory and Clinical Labs Need to Know

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Clinical laboratories such as respiratory and clinical labs that bill Medicare, Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”) programs, and other federal programs are subject to oversight by the Office of Inspector General...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Charitable Giving, Government Support and Concession Requests, and Anti-Corruption Compliance in the Time of the Coronavirus...

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The COVID-19 pandemic has created hardships across the globe at unprecedented levels – with practically no region or industry unaffected. Governments at all levels across the globe, along with non-governmental and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

DOJ Is Trying to 'Incentivize Higher-Quality Compliance,' Former Official Says

Report on Medicare Compliance 28, no. 44 (December 16, 2019) - One way to find out whether compliance and integrity have seeped into the bones of an organization is asking people who would know. There may be a compliance...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 28, Number 39. News Briefs: November 2019

Report on Medicare Compliance 28, no. 39 (November 4, 2019) - ? The former CEO of Putnam County Memorial Hospital in Unionville, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, the Department...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] DOJ’s New Guidance on Evaluating Compliance Programs: What You Need to Know

In this episode, Akin Gump health care and life sciences counsel Taylor Jones and Matt Wetzel discuss the Justice Department’s recent guidance on evaluation of corporate compliance programs. Among the topics covered: •...more

The Volkov Law Group

DOJ Collects Millions in Two High-Profile False Claims Act Cases

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Companies that depend on federal funding (e.g. healthcare, government contractors and university researchers) face significant risks for False Claims Act prosecutions. ...more

Hogan Lovells

Why Healthcare and Life Sciences Companies Need to Step Up Their Compliance Efforts in Advance of a U.S. Government Investigation

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In this hoganlovells.com interview, Hogan Lovells partner Gejaa Gobena discusses how the perception of compliance, remediation, and self-disclosure has evolved in the eyes of government prosecutors from how they factor at...more

King & Spalding

GAO Examines Effectiveness of Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Activities

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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published a report analyzing the effectiveness of Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) program activities titled, “Indicators Provide Information on Program...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update -- Oct 23, 2013

Mapping The New Fraud And Abuse Landscape - In an age of increased government scrutiny and enforcement, providers, payers, pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers, along with their business partners,...more

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