Earlier this month, Williams Mullen reported that the CARES Act would provide $100 billion in relief funds to skilled nursing facilities, hospitals and other health care providers on the front lines of the COVID-19 response....more
On June 30, 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced an interim final rule almost doubling per-claim penalties under the False Claims Act (“FCA”). The FCA still imposes treble damages for government losses in...more
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Last week, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and several hospitals were successful in convincing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn a 2014 lower court decision, possibly paving the way for a...more