The Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement statistics on January 16, 2026. The DOJ announced a record level of recoveries from FCA resolutions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 (ending Sept…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Contracting, Health, Labor & Employment Law
The much-anticipated appellate showdown regarding the constitutionality of the whistleblower (or qui tam) provision of the federal False Claims Act (FCA) took place before a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting, Health
In a September 3 Press Release, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it is increasing efforts to curb information blocking. This was quickly followed by a September 4 Enforcement Alert issued…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA or the Agency) recently issued a new proposed rule that would require all “providers” licensed by AHCA to have a “continuity plan” for data and information technology…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Privacy
The FBI issued a warning on June 27, 2025, that criminals impersonating healthcare insurers and fraud investigators are sending text messages and emails to healthcare providers and patients to trick them into providing protected…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Insurance, Privacy
On June 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order in Purl v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, No. 2:24-CV-228-Z (N.D. Tex. 2025) (the June 18 Order) that vacated…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health
Don’t sit on those patient credits. Effective January 1, 2026, a new Florida law (CS/CS/SB 1808) requires licensed health care facilities, providers, and practitioners (each, a “Licensed Provider”) to refund any overpayment made…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Health
The Florida Legislature recently passed a bill, called the CHOICE Act, that augments Florida’s laws governing restrictive covenants to make it significantly easier for employers to enforce two new types of noncompete agreements:…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Health, Labor & Employment Law
An Idaho federal court has resolved the tension between that state’s restrictive abortion law and the federal Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) in favor of a hospital system’s obligation to stabilize pregnant…
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/ Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Health
Practitioners who want to prescribe controlled substances via telehealth to patients in Florida must meet the requirements of both federal and state law. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Florida…
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/ Administrative Law, Health
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently rescinded its policy dating back to 1971 to now allow its agencies and offices to quickly alter certain rules and regulations without public notice and comment. The…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Health
As harsh winter weather swept the nation’s capital, President Donald Trump commenced his second term by signing a blizzard of Executive Orders (EOs) that span many hot-button issues. Several of the EOs signal President Trump’s…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Health
The Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement statistics on January 15, 2025, announcing that it had recovered in excess of $2.9 billion from FCA resolutions during Fiscal Year (FY) 2024…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Health
As we anticipated in our October 17, 2024, blog, both the Government and the Relator have appealed the district court’s decision in U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates, LLC, et al. (Zafirov), the first case to…
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/ Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting, Health
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently proposed a sweeping rewrite of the HIPAA Security Rule that, if finalized, will require that many Covered Entities and their Business…
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/ Administrative Law, Privacy, Health
