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News & Analysis as of May 25, 2013

Courts of Appeals Continue to Limit the Government’s Aggressive False Claims Act Theories

by Chelsey Hadfield, Ty Howard, Jack Selden | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 4/23/2013

This spring saw two significant victories for health care providers in the federal courts of appeals. In both cases, the courts rejected an aggressive government theory under the False Claims Act (FCA), the first related to...more

D.C. District Court Again Rules That Bad Debt at a Collection Agency is Allowable

by Leslie Demaree Goldsmith | Ober|Kaler on 4/4/2013

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently ruled, again, that a Medicare contractor is not permitted to disallow Medicare bad debts solely on the ground that the bad debt is still at an outside...more

Under The Dome: Inside The Maine State House 3-22-13

by Avery T. Day, John D. Delahanty, Andrea Cianchette Maker | Pierce Atwood LLP on 3/25/2013

In This Issue: - Governor Does Not Act on Veto Threat - Appropriations Committee Continues Public Hearings on Biennial Budget - Governor Explores Medicaid Expansion - Legislature Gets a Snow Day - Governor...more

Summary Of HUD’s LEAN 232 Program E-Mail Blast: Office Of Residential Care Facilities (ORCF), February 28, 2013

by Christine Waldmann Carmody, Blair L. Schiff | Pepper Hamilton LLP on 3/7/2013

In an effort to summarize the highlights of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) LEAN E-mail Blasts that we receive, and rarely have time to review in a timely fashion, we at Pepper are providing this...more

2013 Enforcement Predictions

by Michael Volkov on 1/14/2013

I always like to make predictions at the beginning of each year. My track record is plus and minus – sometimes on target, sometimes off-target. The biggest story in the last five years has been the rise of FCPA...more

False Claims Act Focus - December 2012

by Patton Boggs LLP on 12/22/2012

EDITOR’S NOTE - Recent reports from the Department of Justice that it collected a record $4.9 billion under the False Claims Act in fiscal year 2012 only underscore what we’ve been seeing in our practice and elsewhere in...more

False Claims Act Focus - July 2012

by Patton Boggs LLP on 7/19/2012

EDITOR'S NOTE: Although the False Claims Act (FCA) is used most frequently to address allegations of fraud in health care and government procurement, the statute can be used quite effectively in any situation in which...more

FCA Focus - March 2012

by Patton Boggs LLP on 3/30/2012

In This Issue: - EDITOR'S NOTE - RECENT DEVELOPMENTS • DOJ Civil Recoveries in FY2011 • Number of Qui Tam Actions Hits Record • Financial Fraud Cases Hitting Hard • Government Procurement -...more