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Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Healthcare Fraud: A World Beyond the Anti-Kickback Statute

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Americans spend more than $3 trillion per-year on healthcare-related expenses. Of that, the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates that between $60-250 billion is lost to fraud every year....more

Burr & Forman

Eleventh Circuit Affirms Convictions Against Florida Physician, Pharmacist for Violating Anti-Kickback Statute

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Prosecutions related to the submission of claims to Tricare for compounded pain creams continue. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed convictions against a Florida pharmacist, physician, and Navy veteran for their...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Lessons Learned in the Early Days of Telemedicine Prosecutions: Practical Tips for Defendants Facing Indictments

Last week, Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt delivered remarks to lawyers at an annual conference in Washington, D.C. While the remarks included the Justice Department’s annual boasting of significant...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

US Department of Justice charges co-owners of pharmaceutical company for fraud

Compliance Today (August 2020) - The Department of Justice’s Criminal Fraud division indicted six Texas-based owners and marketers for a scheme to defraud TRICARE and the U.S. Department of Labor, resulting in more than $14...more

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New York Anesthesiologist Indicted in Alleged Telemedicine Fraud Scheme

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On July 9, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has indicted and arraigned a New York-based anesthesiologist for her alleged role in a $7 million telemedicine conspiracy to fraudulently bill Medicare, Medicare...more

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Opioids, Healthcare Enforcement, and Increased Scrutiny of Corporate Conduct for Criminal Prosecution

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The national opioid epidemic is almost unprecedented in every conceivable way—its catastrophic death toll, its broad effect on a wide swath of this country’s population, its rapid escalation (which is alleged to have been...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

SEC and U.S. Attorney’s Office Continue Their Pursuit of Criminal Actions Against Purveyors of “Political Intelligence”

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On May 24, 2017, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launched their latest criminal and civil salvos against prohibited insider trading by...more

Troutman Pepper

When It Absolutely, Positively Has to Be Indicted Overnight: How to Prevent Future Debacles Like the FedEx Prosecution

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Against the backdrop of years of unprecedented monetary penalties imposed through DOJ civil settlements and deferred prosecution agreements with financial institutions embroiled in the 2008 financial meltdown, the DOJ came...more

Butler Snow LLP

Court Slams DOJ By Dismissing The Majority Of Indictment Against Fedex – Rules The Defense Does Not Have A Duty To Correct DOJ’s...

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In the ambitious and novel federal criminal prosecution of FedEx for alleged drug distribution conspiracy, Judge Charles R. Breyer recently ruled that defense counsel has no duty to correct government’s mistakes when...more

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Big Pharma flooded West Virginia with millions of addictive pain-killing pills

Big Pharma should hang its head in shame over recent revelations of its nasty role in inundating rural West Virginia with tens of millions of prescription painkillers. So many pills were shipped in that every man, woman, and...more

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