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Opioid White Collar Crimes Health Care Providers

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Health Care Fraud Enforcement in 2024

This is the ninth in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year... The government had another busy year in 2023 investigating and prosecuting health...more

Cozen O'Connor

Notice of Appeal - A quarterly newsletter reviewing Third Circuit opinions impacting white collar defense lawyers - Fall 2023

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BACKGROUND- A sugar distributor sought to acquire a sugar producer. The district court determined that the relevant product market included distributors as sources of refined sugar, in addition to sugar producers. The...more

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Health Care Enforcement – A Look Ahead

This is the first post in this year’s series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations. Join us in the weeks ahead as we provide updates on new developments and emerging trends in a number of white...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Identity Theft: Joshi v. Joshi Dilemma Ends in Prison Story

A federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a lawsuit against a doctor taking advantage of having the same first and last name as another physician to abet criminal drug distribution may proceed in...more

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DOJ’s False Claims Act Recoveries Rise to More Than $3 Billion in FY2019, With Continued Emphasis on Health Care Fraud Cases

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On January 9, 2020, the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it recovered over $3 billion from civil False Claims Act (FCA) judgments and settlements in the fiscal year ending September 30,...more

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Opioids, Healthcare Enforcement, and Increased Scrutiny of Corporate Conduct for Criminal Prosecution

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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

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

A Compliance Response to the Opioid Crisis: Part II – The Compliance Solution

Yesterday I begin a two-part blog post series on how compliance can be a part of the solution to the opioid crisis. In Part I, I considered the many different types of potential regulatory and liability risks health care...more

Ruder Ware

Treatment Center Pleads Guilty to Anti-kickback Statute Violations Involving Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Centers

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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

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

State Enforcement Actions Demonstrate Continued Scrutiny of Health Care Fraud

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

Burr & Forman

Burr Alert: Part IV: White Collar Courier: Delivering News and Providing Guidance in White Collar Matters

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In part one of this series, I detailed how the U.S. Department of Justice has focused its attention on the aggressive investigation and prosecution of “pill mill” cases. See “Part One: DOJ Devotes Resources, Vows to Come...more

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Burr Alert: Part II: White Collar Courier: Delivering News and Providing Guidance in White Collar Matters

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In part one of this series, I detailed how the U.S. Department of Justice has focused its attention on the aggressive investigation and prosecution of “pill mill” cases. See “Part One: DOJ Devotes Resources, Vows to Come...more

Burr & Forman

Burr Alert: Part I: White Collar Courier: Delivering News and Providing Guidance in White Collar Matters

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Before joining Burr & Forman, I was a federal prosecutor for a little over a decade focusing on health care fraud and general white collar matters. In that role, I was a member of a prosecution team that secured guilty...more

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