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Investigations Newsletter: Federal Court Dismisses $680 Million FCA Suit

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Federal Court Dismisses $680 Million FCA Suit - On July 23, a Maryland federal judge, Ellen L. Hollander, dismissed a $680 million False Claims Act (FCA) suit that was previously revived by the US Supreme Court. The suit...more

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False Claims Act Case Based on Stark Law Violations to Continue After the Third Circuit Revives Whistleblowers’ Claims

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On September 17, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit revived three whistleblowers’ claims alleging that the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and neurosurgeons employed by three subsidiary...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

False Claims Act: 2018 Year in Review

INTRODUCTION - Unlike some recent years, 2018 was somewhat short on headline grabbing news related to the False Claims Act (FCA). There were, to be sure, significant developments in the courts and within the Department of...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Year End Review: A Look Back…A Look Ahead

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Perhaps the single most appropriate word to describe the current state of the civil and criminal healthcare fraud enforcement environment is uncertainty. From changes in personnel and policy at the highest levels of...more

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K&L Gates Triage: Internal & External Health Care Investigations Part 3

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In Part 3 of our series on health care investigations, Mark Rush and John Lawrence discuss the process for external investigations conducted by federal and state governmental agencies, including in the context of qui tam...more

Troutman Pepper

Federal Court Strikes DOJ's Risk Adjustment False Claims Act Case - For Now

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On October 5, a federal district court in California dealt a significant setback to the government’s efforts to extend False Claims Act (FCA) liability to Medicare risk adjustment submissions....more

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Ninth Circuit Holds that Indian Tribes are not “Persons” subject to FCA

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In a brief unpublished memorandum opinion released on June 15, 2015, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of an FCA claim brought against a tribe, holding that tribes do not fit within the FCA’s...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Supreme Court Declines to Opine on Circuit Split Over Rule 9(b) Pleading Requirements for FCA Claims

On March 31, 2014, in U.S. ex rel. Nathan v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upholding a district...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

District Court Dismisses Whistleblower’s Medicaid Fraud Allegations Against Quest and LabCorp

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted Quest Diagnostics Inc.’s (Quest’s) Motion to Dismiss a whistleblower lawsuit under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act and the federal False Claims Act...more

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