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The “China Initiative” Just Won’t Die - Recent DOJ Settlement Highlights the Lasting Effect of Trump-Era Policy on Health Care...

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In 2022, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced its decision to shut down the “China Initiative”—the controversial program used to investigate and prosecute academics, health care workers, and...more

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Moffitt Center’s FCA Settlement is First of 2024; Questions Surround Nature of Billing Errors

Moffitt Cancer Center’s recent $19.5 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the state of Florida resolving allegations that billing errors violated the False Claims Act (FCA) triggered a “fully...more

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DOJ: Stanford FCA Case Involved Failures to Disclose Foreign Support From Seven Countries

Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 11 (November, 2023) It wasn't just China. China is among the countries whose support for Stanford University investigators wasn’t reported to five federal research funding agencies,...more

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Dialysis & Nephrology Digest - March 2021 #3

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Study contends lifestyle, chronic ailments to drive 56% growth in value of global peritoneal dialysis market through 2027 - A report (available for purchase) from Canadian research firm Emergen Research suggests the...more

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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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DOJ Announces FCA Settlement with NIH-Funded Institute Related to Disclosure of Foreign Influence in Research

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it reached a $5,500,000 settlement with a biomedical research institute that received NIH grant funding–the Van Andel Research Institute (VARI)–to resolve allegations...more

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After $5.5M FCA Settlement, Institutions Face Bigger Risks for Mishandling Foreign Support

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 2 (January 23, 2020) - Acting with “deliberate ignorance” and “reckless disregard” are not words that any institution wants to hear associated with its name. But these are at the heart...more

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As MD Anderson Keeps Up Its Legal Fight, U. Rochester Pays OCR $3M

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 1 (January 2020) - Ah, those pesky residents. If you’re a teaching hospital, you can’t live without them, right? But sometimes living with them is mighty costly, as the University of...more

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Justice Department Recovers Nearly $6 Billion From False Claims Act Cases in 2014

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained a record $5.69 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in fiscal year 2014. This marks the first time the DOJ...more

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Northwestern University Settles Cancer Research False Claims Act Lawsuit

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On July 30, 2013, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois announced that Northwestern University entered a settlement agreement to pay the United States $2.9 million to settle False Claims...more

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