Innovation in Compliance: Unpacking Healthcare Compliance with Maria Villanueva
False Claims Act Insights - Physician, Refer Thyself: How Stark Law and FCA Intersect
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 190: Healthcare Tech and Human Resources with Shannon Frazier, HR Executive Director at Lenovo
Video: Braidwood v. Becerra – Challenging the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Services Coverage Provision – Thought Leaders in Health Law
Greetings and Felicitations: The Future of Healthcare…Is Now: Part 3 – The Specifics of Managing Obesity
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 153: William Kenley, CEO, and Juana Slade, Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Language Services, AnMed Health
Greetings and Felicitations: The Future of Healthcare…Is Now: Part 2- Revolutionizing Healthcare: Personalized Medicine
Private Equity VS Real Estate Transactions | #6 What’s the Best Order to Sell?
Episode 152: Matt Littlejohn, CEO, MUSC Health Midlands
Private Equity VS Real Estate Transactions | #4 Optimizing Total Asset Value
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 151: Erin Ford, EVP & COO, and David Stefanich, Board Chair, SCBIO
Private Equity VS Real Estate Transactions | #3 Real Estate Valuations Explained
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice - Reimbursement Audits and Appeals
Podcast - Counsel That Cares - The Value of Value-Based Cancer Care
Episode 150 - Jane Pine Wood, Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, BioReference
Podcast - The Latest on Antitrust and Non-Compete Agreements in Healthcare
Strategies to Manage Costs of Medical Care in a PA Workers’ Compensation Claim
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 149: Patrick Goodwill, CEO, Magnetic Insight
Podcast - Noteworthy Value-Based Care Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 146: Ann Lewis, CEO, CareSouth
Change Healthcare Inc. has amended its initial breach report to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to state that 100 million individuals were impacted by its mammoth ransomware attack and breach. However, as of Oct. 24,...more
As President-Elect Trump’s second Administration begins in January 2025, businesses face a critical juncture with potential shifts in regulatory focus across industries and sectors including artificial intelligence,...more
President Joe Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on AI directed agencies to institute a significant number of actions on AI. On April 29, 2024, the White House announced that federal agencies had completed “all of the...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter seeks to bring you up to speed on key federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) developments, with links to primary resources. Each quarter, we...more
Whistleblower Watch is a comprehensive source for all False Claims Act (FCA) news and information. Every quarter, Cozen O’Connor will provide in-house counsel and compliance professionals with a summary of the most notable...more
The False Claims Act (FCA) saw quite a bit of action at the Supreme Court in its most recent completed term. In this fourth and final installment of PilieroMazza’s blog series “The FCA at the Supreme Court,” we examine active...more
The COVID-19 Pandemic wreaked havoc on many businesses. For others, though, it created new opportunities to sell to the federal government, including an unprecedented demand for personal protective equipment (“PPE”), COVID...more
The government buys billions of dollars in healthcare-related goods and services every year, and no government procurement is perfect. In a business where every contract award matters, healthcare contractors should be aware...more
Earlier this month, the White House released the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan outlining specific “high impact initiatives” that the federal government will carry out to achieve its cybersecurity...more
In our July 18, 2023, webinar titled “False Claims Act 2023: What Every Health Care Entity Working with the Government Needs to Know,” Manatt posed the following hypothetical and asked three questions about it in our live...more
On June 16, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in U.S. ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, a closely watched case about the government’s power to dismiss a False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam lawsuit over a...more
A Florida communications firm and its owner agreed to pay $293,771 to resolve False Claims Act (FCA) allegations that they failed to secure personal information on a federally funded Florida children’s health insurance...more
On January 23, 2023 the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau released a Declaratory Ruling addressing a request for clarification submitted by US Department of Health and Human...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - Biden Proposes Emissions Reduction and Reporting Standards for Federal Contractors - The Biden-Harris Administration recently published a proposed rule on Federal Supplier Climate Risks and...more
As discussed in a previous post, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative to utilize one of the strongest tools in its toolbox—the False Claims Act—to hold entities receiving federal...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it obtained more than $5.6 billion in False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and judgment in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2021. This is the second largest annual total...more
Over the past few years, the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) recertification rules have been the subject of much debate, with some arguing that recertification impacts an offeror’s eligibility for award and for future...more
In news that will be of interest to every federal contractor, including large and small businesses, universities, banks, and the health care industry, Executive Order 14042 (along with the related Task Force Guidance and...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it obtained more than $2.2 billion in False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and judgments in the fiscal year ending September 29, 2020. Notably, DOJ reports that...more
Client Alert: SBA to Enact Significant Changes to Small Business Regulations Before 2020: Everything You Need to Know - On November 29, 2019, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a final rule that will...more
“Prevention Is Priceless: FCA Protection in the Healthcare Industry” is the fourth episode of "Ex Rel. Radio," our multi-part series on the False Claims Act. In this episode, PilieroMazza Counsel Michelle Litteken joins our...more
Federal False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries in fiscal year 2018 amounted to $2.88 billion, down by roughly $600 million from the prior year and dropping below $3 billion for the first time in eight years. Healthcare cases,...more
I have a tendency to sound like a “broken record” (an odd phrase in these days of digital music). The government’s most powerful enforcement tool continues to be – drumroll please, the False Claims Act. ...more
The scope of our country’s opioid epidemic is devastating. From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people have died from a drug overdose. Two-thirds of these deaths involved an opioid. On average, 195 Americans dies every day...more
Despite the controversial impact of the Supreme Court’s Escobar decision, the Justice Department’s False Claims Act prosecutions and settlements are continuing at a consistent rate – heading towards another multi-billion...more