Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Illumina Inc. agreed to pay $9.8 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act (FCA) relating to cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its genomic...more
10/8/2025
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Security ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Government Agencies ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
NIST ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
Supply Chain ,
Whistleblowers
On July 8, a routine enforcement action by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at a surgery center in California escalated into criminal charges for two health care workers. ICE agents were attempting to detain...more
8/7/2025
/ Enforcement Actions ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
Immigration Enforcement ,
Immigration Reform ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has renewed its focus on two critical areas of HIPAA compliance: risk analysis and individual right of access. These enforcement...more
Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed bipartisan bills that were proposed to address significant patterns of violence against Michigan’s health care professionals and medical volunteers. Roughly half of emergency room...more
In 2020, we published an eAlert titled “Telehealth in a Changing World - Trending Risks and How to Minimize Potential Exposure.” As we predicted would happen, the government has become acutely focused on telehealth fraud....more
10/13/2022
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
False Billing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Kickbacks ,
OIG ,
Physicians ,
Telehealth ,
Unnecessary Medical Procedures