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DOJ Cuts Bait in High-Profile Statistical Sampling FCA Case

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On Thursday, AseraCare, a national hospice care provider, announced that it had settled a long-standing Medicare billing dispute with the DOJ, a case that has garnered nationwide attention in healthcare since 2008. At issue...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

FCA Deeper Dive: Objective Falsity and Medical Necessity Cases

The FCA continues to be the federal government’s primary civil enforcement tool for investigating allegations that healthcare providers or government contractors defrauded the federal government. In the coming weeks, we will...more

Morgan Lewis

Proof by Proxy in FCA Suits? District Court Says It Depends

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Admissibility of statistical sampling to prove liability in FCA suit is fact dependent. In a February 14, 2017 decision, the Fourth Circuit declined to rule on the question of whether statistical sampling can be used to...more

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Fourth Circuit Takes a Pass on Statistical Sampling, Finds DOJ's Settlement Veto Authority Unreviewable

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After granting the relators’ petition for an interlocutory review of the district court’s rejection of the use of statistical sampling to establish FCA liability, the Fourth Circuit ultimately declined to reach that issue in...more

Hogan Lovells

False Claims Act Alert: Fourth Circuit Punts on Sampling and Extrapolation

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Tuesday, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the interlocutory appeal in United States ex rel. Michaels v. Agape Senior Community, Inc.. In an opinion considering two significant questions arising under the qui tam...more

McGuireWoods LLP

DOJ Announces Will Appeal Loss in AseraCare, Triggering Issues on Battle of the Experts, Statistical Sampling, and Bifurcation

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$200 million and pivotal legal precedent are at stake in the False Claims Act (“FCA”) case against AseraCare, Inc. (“AseraCare”), a for-profit hospice chain that was alleged to have fraudulently submitted claims that falsely...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Another Court Rejects Statistical Sampling and Rules That Difference of Opinion About Hospice Eligibility Is Insufficient for...

Back in March of this year, in U.S. ex rel. Paradies v. AseraCare, Inc., a district court in Alabama granted summary judgment to a defendant hospice finding that an expert physician’s disagreement with a certifying...more

BakerHostetler

Differences in Medical Opinions: Not Enough to Prove FCA Liability

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In a $200 million False Claims Act (FCA) litigation with certain twists and turns, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama recently found that the federal government failed to show that claims submitted...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

AseraCare Defeats DOJ False Claims Act Suit: Plaintiffs Must Present Evidence of an Objective Falsehood to Prove Falsity Under the...

On March 31, 2016, in United States v. AseraCare, Inc, No. 2:12-cv-245-KOB, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42986 (N.D. Ala. Mar. 31, 2016), the district court granted summary judgment for AseraCare and emphasized that contradicting...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Jury Sides with DOJ in First Phase of FCA Statistical Sampling Trial

Last week, a jury in Alabama federal court sided with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and qui tam relators in the first part of a False Claims Act (FCA) case against AseraCare Inc., a provider of hospice and palliative care...more

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