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Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain. 
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Dental/DSO Intelligence Monthly Report: July/August 2024

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Background on Indiana’s “Baby HSR” Law - Indiana passed Senate Bill 9 in March 2024, which requires an Indiana healthcare entity involved in a merger or acquisition with another healthcare entity with a value of at least...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

True Facts About False Claims: MoFo's FCA Newsletter - July 2024

Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter seeks to bring you up to speed on key federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) developments, with links to primary resources. Each quarter, we...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Rules of Evidence Require Weighing Relevance of Evidence Against Potential Prejudice

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed the exclusion of a drug patent in a medical malpractice case, finding that the highly technical language of the patent would more likely confuse a lay jury than be...more

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Hair Relaxer MDL Proceeds Despite Limited Support

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Plaintiffs’ claims in the hair relaxer multi-district litigation (“MDL”) will move forward, according to a decision by the Northern District of Illinois. The decision exemplifies the liberalities sometimes permitted under...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In This Month’s E-News: November 2023

Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 11 (November, 2023) City University of New York (CUNY ) has accused neuroscientist Hoau-Yan Wang, a CUNY faculty member and longtime collaborator with embattled biotech firm Cassava...more

Console and Associates, P.C.

NIH Federal Credit Union Notifies 14,706 Members of Data Breach

On July 5, 2023, the National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine following the company’s discovery that an unauthorized party was able to get into an...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, Number 3. - Hunter College Whistleblower: Suit Was to End ‘Luxury Vacations, Fraud...

Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, Number 3. February 23, 2023 - To those who say whistleblowers are only interested in the money a settlement can bring, meet Devin English. An assistant professor in the Department of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 17, Number 11. In This Month's E-News: November 2020

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 11 (November 2020) - In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the HHS Office for Human Research Protections has issued an exception to the single institutional review board...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Scripps Pays $10M for Alleged FCA Violations; Whistleblower Warned of 'Soft Money Policy'

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 10 (September 24, 2020) What the federal government—and a whistleblower—allege were False Claims Act (FCA) violations actually resulted from an “accounting discrepancy,” according to the...more

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Investigations Newsletter: Engineering Firm Settles $37 Million False Claims Act Allegations

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Engineering Firm Settles $37 Million False Claims Act Allegations - As part of a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice, QuantaDyn Corporation has agreed to pay $37,757,713.91 in restitution to resolve...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

New Presidential Proclamation Aimed at Combatting China's Theft of American Research

On May 29, President Trump issued a proclamation, effective on June 1, 2020, to suspend and limit certain nonimmigrant Chinese nationals who seek to enter the United States with an F or J visa. This latest action by the Trump...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 17, Number 6. In This Month's E-News: June 2020

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 6 (June 2020) - A former assistant veterinary medicine professor at the University of Maryland will retract or correct seven papers published from 2013 to 2016 that contained reused or...more

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Big Changes in FDA’s Serology/Antibody Testing Requirements

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On May 4, 2020, the FDA issued new Guidance that drastically changes the requirements for serology/antibody tests for the COVID-19 epidemic. The Agency did this by updating (and superseding) previous February 29, and March...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 17, Number 3. In This Month's E-News: March 2020

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 3 (February 20, 2020) - Despite its earlier agreement to repay just $5,442 in costs questioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Inspector General, the University of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 1. In This Month's E-News: January 2020

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 1 (January 2020) - ? A man from Richland, Washington, is facing life in prison after being convicted of 47 counts of fraud for staging clinical trials that purportedly enrolled dozens of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance, News Briefs: November 2019

Report on Medicare Compliance 28, no. 36 (Oct. 14, 2019). - NIH should “update its guidance on vetting peer reviewer nominees to identify potential foreign threats to research integrity” and “develop a risk-based approach...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Universities Are Prime Targets for False Claims Act Liability

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Colleges and universities receive billions of dollars in federal funds, whether through research grants or student financial aid, or even by billing Medicare or Medicaid for services rendered at academic medical centers. As a...more

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DOJ Files FCA Complaint Against Recipient of Grant Funding

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The FCA began as a response to procurement fraud by military contractors during the Civil War. In the intervening years, its reach has extended and increasingly the government is using the FCA as a tool in the context of...more

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Paying for Family Vacations With NIH Funds Triggers FCA Lawsuit and Settlement

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Northwestern University will pay $2.93 million to settle a federal False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit brought by a former employee who alleged Northwestern allowed a researcher to submit false claims under certain cancer research...more

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