SBR-Author’s Podcast: The Unseen Life of an Undercover Agent: A Conversation with Charlie Spillers
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Fraud, the silent epidemic
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, May 3, 2025
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 51 – The Compliance Week at 20 Edition
The Next FCRA Frontier: Identity Theft and CFPB Updates — FCRA Focus Podcast
Daily Compliance News: April 29, 2025, The GenZ/RTO Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – A Study in Scarlet, Introduction to Compliance Lessons
Unlocking the Secrets of Reverse Mortgages — The Consumer Finance Podcast
False Claims Act Insights - DOJ’s Reliance on FCA to Pursue Covid-Related Fraud
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 12, 2025
Elder Financial Exploitation
Daily Compliance News: April 7, 2025, The Whistleblowers Awarded Edition
An Ounce of Prevention Podcast | Preparing for the UK Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence
Sunday Book Review: March 23, 2025, The Hard-Boiled Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending, March 22, 2025
Daily Compliance News: March 14, 2025, The $200 Transaction Edition
PilieroMazza Annual Review: What DOJ’s 2024 FCA Report Means for Government Contractors
Episode 354 -- The New Era of Compliance: Generative AI, Data and Innovation
12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 4 - A Focus on the FCA – Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Republicans have swept the 2024 elections, returning Donald Trump to the White House as the 47th President and flipping the Senate to a Republican majority. Having narrowly maintained control of the House of Representatives,...more
Alliance for Shared Health, Inc. and an affiliated company and affiliated individuals (collectively, “ASH”) settled with California AG Rob Bonta for $2.1 million to resolve allegations that thousands of Californians purchased...more
On September 23, 2020, a panel of Skadden attorneys hosted a webinar entitled “Key Supreme Court Cases From the 2019-20 Term and a Look Ahead to the 2020-21 Term.” Panelists Julie Bédard, Boris Bershteyn, Jocelyn E. Strauber...more
On Monday, March 25, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) endorsed the decision of a district court judge in the Northern District of Texas that invalidated the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) as unconstitutional. Texas v....more
AG Elections- Republican Todd Atwater Announces Bid for South Carolina Attorney General- Republican state Representative Todd Atwater has declared his candidacy for South Carolina AG in 2018. ...more
Welcome to the Spring edition of Benefits Litigation Update, brought to you by The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) and the law firm Epstein Becker & Green. As a new Congress, and a new executive branch, work on major...more
The public disclosure bar is a statutorily created hurdle that plaintiffs must cross to successfully maintain a False Claims Act suit. The principle was originally enacted to prevent individuals from filing “parasitic” False...more
This Week: FDA Begins Device User Fee Talks with Patients and Consumers Sept. 15... CMS Extends Partial Enforcement Delay of Two-Midnight Policy Through 2015... Alaska Legislature Sues Governor Over Medicaid Expansion....more
The headline on Medicare last week was astounding — $60 billion (not million) was lost each year to Medicare fraud, large numbers of fraudulent providers were providing fake or bad addresses – meaning locations including...more
The threat of federal False Claims Act (“FCA”) liability based on the failure to promptly return overpayments is a relatively new phenomenon, but it is receiving a lot of attention. In 2009, Congress enacted the Fraud...more
This Week: Leading Up to the SCOTUS King v. Burwell Decision... House Votes to Repeal the Medical Device Tax... CMS Announces It Will Bolster Transitional Reinsurance Payments... MedPAC Releases June Report to Congress....more
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) has released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Annual Report (Report) on the performance of the Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs)...more
In this issue: - Recent Supreme Court Decisions Revise Rules for Stock Drop Cases - Hobby Lobby and the Questions Left Unanswered - Post-Amara Landscape Continues to Evolve - Supreme Court to...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
Bob Dylan's quote from 1964 -- "The Times They Are A-Changin" -- could equally apply to the healthcare industry in 2013. This was the year that the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") came into full public view with the start of the...more
Unlike financial identity theft, which targets a victim’s financial health, medical identity theft threatens a victim’s very existence. The unauthorized access of a victim’s medical record not only grants the thief access to...more
Criminal Prosecutions Expected in 2014 Related to ACA Fraud - Last month's troubled rollout of HealthCare.gov, the federal marketplace for online health insurance enrollment under the Affordable Care Act (ACA),...more
Recent seemingly contrary determinations by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have fueled industry speculation regarding whether qualified health plans (QHPs) available on the health insurance exchanges...more
In This Issue: - Top News ..Deal to Raise Debt Ceiling, End Shutdown Yields No Major Changes to Health Care Law ..Problems with HealthCare.gov Website Continue; HHS Working to Fix Issues ..Kaiser Study...more
“Credible allegations of fraud.” What does that mean??? As it pertains to Medicaid, “credible allegations of fraud” was first introduced into law by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...more
With a week until a potential government shutdown and a week until open enrollment begins, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is in the limelight. On September 20, the House voted for a continuing resolution that funds the...more
Yesterday, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced an interagency initiative to prevent consumer fraud and...more
AFL-CIO RESOLUTION ATTACKS OBAMACARE - On September 10, 2013, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez, to a standing ovation from assembled labor leaders, addressed the AFL-CIO’s 27th quadrennial constitutional...more
One of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act provided CMS with the authority to impose a temporary enrollment moratorium for a particular type of provider or supplier if determined to be necessary to combat fraud and...more
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted unanimously on legislation that would repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula that has historically led to annual decreases in physician payments that are fixed at the...more