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
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
Please join us for the 9th Annual Nashville Healthcare Fraud Conference hosted by Bass, Berry & Sims and the Tennessee Hospital Association. Eligible for more than seven hours of CLE credit (including ethics), this...more
Government Brings FCA Action Against Laboratory Companies - On July 18, 2023, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has filed a complaint against multiple laboratory companies and their owner, Patrick...more
Health Care fraud is a growing national issue. The National Heath Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates that health care fraud costs the nation about $68 billion annually — about 3 percent of the nation's $2.26 trillion in...more
Earlier this month a federal judge unsealed a federal qui tam relator complaint originally filed in January 2020 by Dr. Jay Radhakrishnan and Dr. William Julien against Arizona-based Modern Vascular and certain of its...more
Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued Advisory Opinion No. 22-09 (AO 22-09), which addresses a proposed arrangement pursuant to which the operator of a...more
A recent Fourth Circuit decision, United States v. Mallory (988 F.3d 730), upheld damages and penalties for more than $100 million for violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)) (the “AKS”) and the...more
William F. Gould In United States v. Merino, No. 19-50291, 2021 WL 754589 (9th Cir. Feb. 26, 2021), the court of appeals reversed the conviction of Marina Merino of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in violation of 18...more
Exceltox Laboratories, LLC, a California diagnostic laboratory, is paying a $357,584 settlement to resolve allegations of False Claims Act (FCA) violations. Exceltox allegedly submitted or caused to be submitted claims for...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 15 (April 20, 2020) - Maury Regional Medical Center in Tennessee has agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle false claims allegations over MS-DRG coding, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for...more
Compliance Today (March 2020) - In January, Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division announced that it “obtained more than $3 billion in settlements and judgments from civil...more
$3 billion recovered under the False Claims Act (“FCA”). That’s what the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) reported collecting in FY2019. The health care and life sciences industries accounted for $2.6 billion of the total...more
Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries - Kentucky Hospital Agrees to Pay $10 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations - Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Healthcare Inc. d/b/a...more
Most health care providers recognize that submitting a knowingly false claim to a federally funded health care program violates the False Claims Act (FCA). However, it is less well known that indirectly "causing" someone else...more
DOJ News - Inpatient Rehabilitation Company Agrees to Pay $48 Million to Resolve FCA Allegations - DOJ announced that Encompass Health Corporation (f/k/a HealthSouth Corporation), the nation’s largest operator of...more
Late last month the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut issued a press release regarding the latest False Claims Act (FCA) settlement involving the healthcare industry in New England. According to the...more
A LOOK BACK... A LOOK AHEAD - While the uncertainty associated with legislative efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) dominated most of the headlines for the healthcare industry last year,...more
On December 11, 2017, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted in part and denied in part defendant Boston Heart Diagnostics Corporation’s (Boston Heart) motion to reconsider the court’s ruling on...more
Notification of potential data quality issues by a Massachusetts laboratory is raising concerns about the possible impact on current and closed remediation sites in Massachusetts that relied on that data. Accutest...more
$48.5 million settlement with Health Diagnostics Laboratory, Inc. and Singulex, Inc. - On April 9, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") announced a $48.5 million settlement with two cardiovascular diagnostic...more
Continuing the scrutiny of laboratory arrangements with referring physician practices, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the settlement of False Claims Act allegations against two cardiovascular...more