AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 28: How Life Sciences Companies Can Create a Culture of Compliance When Expanding to the U.S. Market
False Claims Act Insights - Swamp Things: A Post-Election Look at DOJ’s False Claims Act Enforcement, Part I
False Claims Act Insights - Reality Checks: How to Approach Healthcare Transactions Without Triggering FCA Liability
False Claims Act Insights - Are All Healthcare “Kickbacks” Subject to FCA Liability?
The Latest on Healthcare Enforcement
Episode 303 --- Deep Dive into the HHS-OIG Compliance Program Guidance
Litigating Elder Financial Exploitation Cases: Defending Banks in a Tough Spot — The Consumer Finance Podcast
UPIC Report Card: The OIG’s Evaluation of the UPICs Provides Insight Into the Future of Hospice Audits
Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program FY 2021 Report
Forecast for Telehealth Fraud and Abuse Risk in 2021 - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
Fraud and Abuse Enforcement Priorities in the Wake of COVID-19 - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
Nota Bene Episode 37: How to Prevent or Defend Against Business Crimes with Chuck Kreindler
Value-based health care: fraud & abuse laws
Value-based health care: issues for pharmaceutical companies
On May 12, 2025, the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) released its criminal—and, more specifically, white collar crime enforcement—initiatives under the current administration. This is typical each time new leadership...more
The May 12, 2025, memo from the head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Criminal Division highlights 10 “high-impact” areas as the focus of DOJ’s criminal enforcement efforts. (See our May 14, 2025, client alert “In a New...more
The litigator’s adage “it’s easy to plead, it’s hard to prove” once again came true in the long-running False Claims Act (FCA) case targeting Medicare Advantage (“MA”) plans operated by UnitedHealth (United). Eight years...more
Healthcare organizations face an ever-growing list of regulatory demands and risks, with Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) at the forefront. Addressing FWA is more than avoiding fines under regulations like the False Claims Act –...more
On February 22, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual report of civil fraud recoveries for FY2023, along with a press release highlighting DOJ’s civil enforcement efforts. Our top ten observations from...more
Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, no 8 (August 2023) With the publication of a rule finalizing financial penalties for grant fraud and related violations of U.S. law, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has a...more
We previously wrote about the United States Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative (“CCFI”), which “aims to hold accountable entities or individuals that put U.S. information or systems at risk by...more
The United States Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently issued a “Special Fraud Alert” focusing on two potentially illegal trends that it has detected in arrangements between laboratories and their referring...more
In this Presentation: Kristin Cilento Carter presented “Exploration of Common Exceptions to the Stark Law” as part of the program “Stark Physician Self-Referral Law,” an installment in the Fraud and Abuse Basics...more
The past year was one of the most eventful in recent memory for healthcare policy. As the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") continued its inexorable, albeit at times wobbly, march towards implementation, the headlines became more...more