The Ins and Outs of Medical Treatment in New Jersey Workers' Compensation Claims
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 22 - Reclaiming Purpose: A Transformative Journey Through Addiction, Rehab and Prison
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Podcast | Episode 105: Sara Goldsby, Director, DAODAS
DE Under 3: Vaccine Mandate Updates, Contractor Unique Entity Identifiers, EEOC Nominations & A Reduced VEVRAA Hiring Benchmark
Hooper, Kearney and Macklin on Cutting Edge Topics in the False Claims Act
Healthcare Headlines Episode 3 - Stay Ready: Trends in Healthcare False Claims Act Investigations
Workers' Compensation Academy: New Jersey Workers' Comp: Medical Marijuana and Opiates
Jones Day Talks Health Care: The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act
This Week in FCPA-Episode 77, the Home for the Holidays Edition
K&L Gates Triage: An Insider’s Perspective on the Health Care Debate in Washington, DC
The Department of Justice announced one if its most aggressive and wide-ranging enforcement actions to date, a coordinated two-week operation spanning 32 federal districts. The orchestrated effort involved the FBI, HHS-OIG,...more
Our one-day Regional Compliance Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more
Compliance Today (February 2021) - Purdue Pharma LP pleaded guilty to three felony offenses: “one count of dual-object conspiracy to defraud the United States and to violate the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and two...more
Ensuring compliance with the False Claims Act has never been more important for healthcare providers. By March 2020, we saw healthcare professionals standing at the forefront of one of the greatest health crises in a...more
On September 15, 2020, Doctor Akikur R. Mohammad, a California resident and drug treatment facility owner, pled guilty before the U.S. District Court of New Jersey for violating the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act...more
On January 27, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a $145 million settlement with electronic health record (EHR) vendor Practice Fusion to resolve civil and criminal allegations that it violated the Anti-Kickback...more
On January 27, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a $145 million settlement with Practice Fusion Inc., an electronic health records (EHR) software company, that resolves parallel criminal and civil investigations...more
Opioid manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies and prescribers are facing a deluge of lawsuits that involve criminal and civil claims in both federal and state courts. On May 2, 2019, a federal jury in Boston, Massachusetts,...more
Nissan and its Former CEO Settle Charges for Fraudulently Concealing More than $140 Million in Compensation and Retirement Benefits - This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a settlement with...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG), recently published its Spring 2019 Semiannual Report to Congress. The report, released June 3, 2019, covers the period October 1, 2018...more
Congress has activated a new Anti-Kickback law known as Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (commonly referred to as EKRA). The new Anti-Kickback law applies to arrangements involving recovery homes, clinical...more
The national opioid epidemic is almost unprecedented in every conceivable way—its catastrophic death toll, its broad effect on a wide swath of this country’s population, its rapid escalation (which is alleged to have been...more
With the passage of the Eliminating Kickbacks and Recovery Act in October 2018, Congress took aim at the ongoing opioid crisis threatening communities across the U.S. This new criminal statute targets healthcare providers...more
The Justice Department’s commitment – resources and public statements – has continued at a steady pace in the Trump Administration. Some might diminish the effort by recognizing that fraud is so pervasive that it is like...more
Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced its largest ever national health care fraud takedown, resulting in charges against 601 diverse defendants including...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the guilty plea of two individual alcohol and substance abuse treatment center owners for their participation in what the DOJ labeled a “multi-million dollar health care...more
Recently the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a statement that it had intervened in a False Claims Act (FCA) case against Insys Therapeutics, Inc. and consolidated five separate qui tam cases into one case, U.S. ex rel...more
Several recently reported cases highlight the growing risk physicians face if they succumb to competitive pressures, especially offers of remuneration from labs, pharmacies, home health agencies and other providers to whom...more
On September 6, 2017, the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) released a Minority Staff Report: Fueling An Epidemic: Insys Therapeutics and the Systemic Manipulation of Prior Authorization....more
On July 13, 2017, the Department of Justice ("DOJ"), in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), continued its annual tradition of coordinating the filing of charges and sweeping arrests in...more