Podcast - Cybersecurity Roundup: Analyzing New and Proposed Rules for Contractors
AGG Talks: Women in Tech Law Podcast - Episode 3: Cybersecurity and FCA Compliance: Essential Insights for Tech Leaders
False Claims Act Insights - Are All Healthcare “Kickbacks” Subject to FCA Liability?
False Claims Act Insights - If Everything Matters, Nothing Does: Parsing Materiality in FCA Disputes
False Claims Act Insights - Assessing the Fallout from a Thermonuclear FCA Verdict
False Claims Act Insights - Eureka! Government Investigators Seek Out Research Misconduct
Common Scenarios Triggering False Claims Act Violations, Part 3: Claims and Investigations
Common Scenarios Triggering False Claims Act Violations, Part 1: Gov. Contracts and Cybersecurity
False Claims Act Insights - Physician, Refer Thyself: How Stark Law and FCA Intersect
False Claims Act Insights - The Art and Science of Corporate Compliance in Managing FCA Risk
The Latest on Healthcare Enforcement
False Claims Act Insights - Railroaded! How to Approach the Twin Tracks of Parallel Proceedings
FCA Uncovered: Mitigating Risk in the Regulatory Spotlight — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
False Claims Act Insights - Are We Done Here? The Unique Dynamics of FCA Settlements
False Claims Act Insights - Help! I Got a Civil Investigative Demand from DOJ. What Do I Do?
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 186: White Collar Crimes in Healthcare with Maynard Nexsen’s White Collar Team
False Claims Act Insights - Think You Know Whistleblowers? Think Again.
PilieroMazza Annual Review What DOJ’s Annual FCA Report Means for Government Contractors
Protecting Our Nation’s Data: Cybersecurity Compliance for Government Contractors
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 19
Federal government contracts are routinely awarded to companies supplying goods and services to U.S. government agencies. According to the Government Accountability Office, in 2023, the federal government committed about $759...more
Healthcare enforcement is never quiet. There’s always something, or many things, going on, and compliance teams need to stay on top of the trends to ensure that their programs are staying ahead of the risks. To find out...more
This week, Heather and Lauren welcome more members of the Maynard Nexsen team, White Collar attorneys Erica Barnes, Mark Moore, and Christian Dysart. The group takes a deep dive into discussing white-collar crime in the...more
On March 7, 2024, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced a new 90-day pilot program at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to incentivize whistleblowers. The program is inspired by and generally follows similar programs...more
Georgia Laboratory Owner Pleads Guilty to Felony Anti-Kickback Statute Violations - On February 28, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the guilty plea of Andrew Maloney, who, along with his clinical laboratory...more
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) conduct since announcing its February 22, 2023, Voluntary Self Disclosure (VSD) policy, demonstrates that the government continues to place a premium on corporate cooperation in both criminal...more
On November 22, 2023, while many were preparing for the Thanksgiving holiday, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted a consumer alert (Alert) warning the public about a fraud scheme involving monthly billing for remote...more
On Friday, July 21, 2023, DOJ announced it has reached a $377,453,150 settlement with Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (Booz Allen), the parent company of Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., the large government and military...more
In April 2022, CMS announced an initiative to pay for Medicare beneficiaries to receive free OTC COVID-19 test kits. Specifically, Medicare established a demonstration project to pay various eligible healthcare providers to...more
Recently, Womble Bond Dickinson held its First Annual Health Care Fraud Symposium, a webinar designed to discuss critical healthcare fraud topics. WBD Partner Joe Whitley moderated a discussion with WBD attorneys Luke Cass,...more
We always focus on foreign bribery — the FCPA and corporate bribery of foreign officials. It is certainly a problem that undermines economic development and human rights. ...more
On July 26, 2022 Bloomberg Law published an “investigation” into the Dodd-Frank Act whistleblower program. Its sensational lead paragraph concludes that the program “often ignores its own rules, shields much of its work from...more
Thomas Prose is the founder and owner of a Michigan-based “post-hospitalist” company named General Medicine P.C. (GM), which purports to specialize in the care of post-acute patients in long-term care facilities by providing...more
As predicted, health care fraud enforcement under the False Claims Act (“FCA”) continues to be a top priority for the Department of Justice (“DOJ”). In fiscal year 2021, the DOJ obtained more than $5.6 billion in settlements...more
False Claims Act prosecutions continue against healthcare executives, physicians and professionals. Last year, DOJ recovered over $5.6 billion in FCA enforcement. DOJ expects total recoveries to increase in 2022. Over 95...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recovered more than $5.6 billion in civil False Claims Act (FCA) judgments and settlements in fiscal year (FY) 2021, the second largest ever annual total in FCA recoveries and the largest...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has made numerous recent public statements reflecting increased priorities for enforcement, especially in the health care industry. The DOJ has a variety of tools at its disposal to enforce...more
On October 28, 2021, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced three changes to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) approach to corporate criminal enforcement. Monaco announced the changes during the Keynote Address at the...more
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) are increasingly relying on sophisticated data analytics tools to identify and investigate fraud...more
Kathryn Isted In Harbor Healthcare System, L.P. v. United States, 5 F.4th 593 (5th Cir. 2021), the court of appeals ruled that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to exercise its equitable jurisdiction over a...more
Three recent settlements demonstrate the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) continued scrutiny of product quality and manufacturing issues in the medical device industry. Using the civil False Claims Act (FCA) and the...more
Nearly a year and a half after the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”)1 on March 27, 2020, the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (“SIGPR”) has ramped up and is...more
A False Claims Act case can easily turn into a criminal prosecution. The Federal Bureau of Investigation often initiates criminal investigations as part of its commitment to reducing health care fraud....more
Skilled Nursing Facilities in particular and to a lesser extent other types of Residential Care Facilities, including Assisted Living Facilities and Behavioral Health Facilities, have always been under the government’s...more
Under President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is expected to focus more intently on white collar enforcement than it did under the Trump administration. Fraud and abuse...more