Podcast - Cybersecurity Roundup: Analyzing New and Proposed Rules for Contractors
AGG Talks: Women in Tech Law Podcast - Episode 3: Cybersecurity and FCA Compliance: Essential Insights for Tech Leaders
False Claims Act Insights - Are All Healthcare “Kickbacks” Subject to FCA Liability?
False Claims Act Insights - If Everything Matters, Nothing Does: Parsing Materiality in FCA Disputes
False Claims Act Insights - Assessing the Fallout from a Thermonuclear FCA Verdict
False Claims Act Insights - Eureka! Government Investigators Seek Out Research Misconduct
Common Scenarios Triggering False Claims Act Violations, Part 3: Claims and Investigations
Common Scenarios Triggering False Claims Act Violations, Part 1: Gov. Contracts and Cybersecurity
False Claims Act Insights - Physician, Refer Thyself: How Stark Law and FCA Intersect
False Claims Act Insights - The Art and Science of Corporate Compliance in Managing FCA Risk
The Latest on Healthcare Enforcement
False Claims Act Insights - Railroaded! How to Approach the Twin Tracks of Parallel Proceedings
FCA Uncovered: Mitigating Risk in the Regulatory Spotlight — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
False Claims Act Insights - Are We Done Here? The Unique Dynamics of FCA Settlements
False Claims Act Insights - Help! I Got a Civil Investigative Demand from DOJ. What Do I Do?
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 186: White Collar Crimes in Healthcare with Maynard Nexsen’s White Collar Team
False Claims Act Insights - Think You Know Whistleblowers? Think Again.
PilieroMazza Annual Review What DOJ’s Annual FCA Report Means for Government Contractors
Protecting Our Nation’s Data: Cybersecurity Compliance for Government Contractors
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 19
Gentiva, the renamed former Kindred at Home, agreed to pay $19.4 million to resolve claims that its predecessor company, Kindred at Home and related companies, violated the False Claims Act by retaining overpayments for...more
Texas Pharmaceutical Marketer Sentenced for $59 Million Medications Fraud Conspiracy - On July 12, Quintan Cockerell, a Texas pharmaceutical marketer, was sentenced to over two years in prison and ordered to pay more than...more
Big Baby’s Big Foul: Former NBA Star Glen 'Big Baby' Davis Sentenced to 40 Months for Healthcare Fraud Scheme - On May 9, former Boston Celtics forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis was sentenced to 40 months in prison following...more
Introduction - Polsinelli proudly introduces the Health Care Fraud and Abuse 2023 Year in Review, a comprehensive examination of the evolving landscape surrounding the False Claims Act (“FCA”) and fraud & abuse enforcement...more
News Briefs - State AGs Urge Congress to Reform Pharmacy Benefit Managers - A bipartisan group of 39 state attorneys general sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to take "decisive action" to reform pharmacy benefit...more
This year will see a continued proliferation of enforcement against health-care fraud, with old and new theories. Some hot spots for enforcement will involve cases about new technologies; data outliers; entities perceived as...more
A New Jersey hospice provider must continue its long fight against whistleblowers alleging it violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”) by seeking Medicare reimbursement for patients whose documentation did not support hospice...more
On August 25, 2023, the Third Circuit continued its trend of rulings unfavorable to FCA healthcare defendants in the latest appeal of U.S. ex rel. Druding et al. v. Care Alternatives et al., No. 22-1035, 2023 WL 5494333 (3d...more
Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 32, no 25 (July 2023) Hospices in four states will face heightened oversight. “CMS is placing newly enrolling hospices located in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Texas in a provisional...more
Hospice professionals are often left wondering how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other government entities identify enforcement priorities. They also seek understanding about the subsequent steps...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unexpectedly proposed a rule change that could have a significant impact on how hospices investigate compliance issues and take remedial action. The rule change directly...more
On February 7, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its annual False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries for fiscal year 2022. DOJ recovered $2.2 billion from a total of 351 settlements and judgments—the second-highest...more
On December 6, 2022, the Supreme Court heard argument in United States ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., a case with potential implications on the cost and longevity of certain False Claims Act (FCA)...more
Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us virtually at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance...more
Lens Manufacturer Agrees To Pay $16.4 Million To Resolve Alleged Violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute - Essilor International, Essilor of America, Inc., Essilor Laboratories of America Inc., and...more
On March 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the criminal healthcare fraud convictions of two individuals who ran a network of home health and hospice centers in Texas. According to the Fifth Circuit,...more
The False Claims Act is a powerful enforcement tool used to go after those who defraud the government. Unfortunately, the wide net cast by the False Claims Act can lead to extremely negative consequences for upstanding...more
In this third episode of the Husch Blackwell Hospice Team’s “Hospice and the False Claims Act” series, Meg Pekarske, Bryan Nowicki, Jody Rudman and Brian Flood discuss the process and path of a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit....more
In this second episode of the Husch Blackwell Hospice Team’s three-part “Hospice and the False Claims Act” series, Meg Pekarske, Bryan Nowicki, Jody Rudman and Brian Flood discuss the precursor to almost every False Claims...more
Episode three of McGuireWoods’ video series “Healthcare Headlines” focuses on trends in False Claims Act investigations across the healthcare industry. Host Amber McGraw Walsh, chair of the firm’s nationally recognized...more
Courts nationwide have struggled for years with the question of when a subjective opinion is false under the False Claims Act. The Supreme Court’s decision to deny review of two cases involving health-care providers that had...more
In this first episode of the Husch Blackwell Hospice Team’s 3-part “Hospice and the False Claims Act” series, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske, Bryan Nowicki, Jody Rudman and Brian Flood discuss how the False Claims Act (FCA)...more
The Supreme Court of the United States declined to take up two circuit court decisions on whether “objective falsity” is a requirement for False Claims Act (FCA) liability. The two cases, United States v. Care Alternatives...more
Supreme Court Declines to Review Issue of “Objective Falsity” Under False Claims Act - On February 22, 2021, the United States Supreme Court denied petitions for certiorari in a case that could have addressed the issue of...more
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