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Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

In Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, the Supreme Court Reaffirmed Reduced Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation and resolved a split between the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the 6th, 9th and District of Columbia Circuits in favor of how the Department of...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

A New Circuit Split: FCA Protects Former Employees from Post-Employment Retaliation in the Sixth

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Over a vigorous dissent last week, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and held the False Claims Act’s anti-retaliation...more

Lathrop GPM

Supreme Court Declines To Clarify the Standard for Proof of Falsity Under the False Claims Act

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On February 22, 2021, the United States Supreme Court denied a petition to review the decision of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the case United States ex rel. Druding v. Care Alternatives, 952 F.3d 89 (2020), thus...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Fifth Circuit Joins Circuit Split Upholding Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction to Hear Social Security Claims: Case Has Impact for...

In a case that could impact health care bankruptcies, where jurisdiction over Medicaid and Medicare claims in bankruptcy are often disputed, the Fifth Circuit, in In re Benjamin v. U.S. Social Sec. Admin., Case No. 18-20185,...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

FCA Defendant Petitions Supreme Court, Argues Statute is Unconstitutional

As many of our readers know, we have been closely following the Polukoff False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam case, which is based on allegations that certain heart procedures performed by a cardiologist were not medically...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Enforcement and Litigation Strategies: Skadden’s Eighth Annual Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Device Seminar

On March 15, 2018, Skadden hosted its Eighth Annual Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Device Seminar in Palo Alto, California, which focused on U.S. enforcement issues faced by companies throughout the industry. The...more

Baker Donelson

Medicare Appeals 10-Year Backlog: D.C. Circuit Signals Enough is Enough

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Issued within a month of one another, two cases regarding the Medicare appeals backlog reached opposite conclusions, providing a circuit-split. The first case from the D.C. Circuit, signaling a major shift toward judicial...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update - December 2015

Lessons from Hawaii's Trailblazing ACA 1332 Waiver Proposal - Editor's Note: On September 9, Hawaii became the first state to post a draft 1332 waiver proposal for public comment. While Hawaii's proposal focuses on the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense - October 2015

"Wherefore Art Thou Due Process?" Part III - Why it matters: It is time for another installment in our continuing "Wherefore Art Thou Due Process?" coverage into the ongoing constitutional challenges to the SEC's...more

Baker Donelson

CMS's "At a Collection Agency" Bad Debt Policy - Confusion Continues

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As we reported in previous Payment Matters articles, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia has issued inconsistent opinions regarding Medicare's policy not to allow bad debt when that bad debt is still...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Supreme Court Declines to Opine on Circuit Split Over Rule 9(b) Pleading Requirements for FCA Claims

On March 31, 2014, in U.S. ex rel. Nathan v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upholding a district...more

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