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Are You Secure? DOJ’s Cyber-Fraud Initiative and Heightened FCA Enforcement

Cozen O'Connor on 2/27/2024

False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement has routinely targeted false information supplied to Medicare and Medicaid. A new trend in false-reporting cases is emerging under the FCA’s broad authority — cybersecurity enforcement....more

High Court Hears Important Case on False Claims Act’s Scienter

WilmerHale on 5/9/2023

On April 18, the Supreme Court heard oral argument and what has been billed as the most important False Claims Act (FCA) case in a decade. Since the FCA was enacted in the Civil War era, it has been the primary tool for the...more

True Facts About False Claims: MoFo's FCA Newsletter

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 1/6/2023

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

Guard Against False Claims as Massive Government Spending Rolls Out to Combat COVID-19

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/23/2020

Federal and state governments are ready to roll out over one trillion dollars in funding in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As past is often prologue, we expect this new round of massive government...more

False Claims Act Liability Without Submitting False Claims? Yes, That's a Thing

Baker Donelson on 9/26/2019

Most health care providers recognize that submitting a knowingly false claim to a federally funded health care program violates the False Claims Act (FCA). However, it is less well known that indirectly "causing" someone else...more

State Enforcement Actions Demonstrate Continued Scrutiny of Health Care Fraud

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis on 4/2/2018

A series of criminal and civil enforcement actions announced in recent weeks demonstrate the continued attention that state regulators throughout the Northeast are placing on health care fraud. ...more

Check Up on Healthcare Fraud Prosecutions

The Volkov Law Group on 7/22/2016

Chief compliance officers face an overwhelming level of risk in the healthcare sector. I do not mean to belittle the risks of corruption, AML, sanctions and other risks typically associated with global companies. Healthcare...more

Millennium Health to Pay $256 million in False Claims Act Settlement

Polsinelli on 11/3/2015

Millennium Health, one of the nation’s largest urine drug testing laboratories, has agreed to pay the government $256 million to resolve claims that it violated the Federal False Claims Act (“FCA”). The Settlement...more

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 2015 Update

BakerHostetler on 10/14/2015

Despite a decline in enforcement actions by the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the first half of 2015 has continued to highlight the relevance and ever-evolving effects of the...more

2014—A Record-Setting Year for Whistleblowers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/23/2015

2014 was a record-breaking year for whistleblowers, including both the U.S. Department of Justice’s prosecution of cases under the False Claims Act (FCA) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s prosecution of cases...more

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