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Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Back to the Basics: Government Enforcement for Invalid Prescriptions and Auto-Refills

Recent enforcement actions focus attention on the importance of fundamental operational processes to ensure only valid prescriptions and refills are processed. This month, Omnicare, Inc. (Omnicare), a subsidiary of CVS...more

ArentFox Schiff

Investigations Newsletter: Major Retail and Health Care Company Faces Fraudulent Billing Lawsuit

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Omnicare and CVS Face Fraudulent Billing Lawsuit - On Tuesday, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced a False Claims Act lawsuit against Omnicare, Inc. and its parent company, CVS Health...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Healthcare Law Update: December 2016

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Prompt Payment Discounts Not an Anti-Kickback Statute Violation - In United States of Am. et al. ex rel. Ruscher v. Omnicare, No. 15-20629, 2016 WL 6407128 (5th Cir. Oct. 28, 2016), the court of appeals affirmed summary...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The Difference between Expecting Referrals & Inducing Them

A new Fifth Circuit opinion explains the difference between offering a benefit in order to induce a Medicare referral and offering it in the expectation of a referral. The difference is important because the former is a...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Federal Judge Awards Attorneys’ Fees to Defendant in Dismissed Qui Tam Case, Calls Whistleblower a “Serial Relator”

In November 2013 and this past October, Mintz Levin’s Health Care Qui Tam Update highlighted three separate qui tam False Claims Act (FCA) cases filed by Fox RX, Inc. (Fox), a former Medicare Part D plan sponsor. Fox filed...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

Supreme Court May Reject Argument that Opinion Statements Are Actionable Simply Because False

During oral arguments in Omnicare v. Laborers District Council last week, the Supreme Court appeared to signal a rejection of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ position that a sincerely held statement of opinion or belief...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Good News for Guilty Whistleblowers!

Want to be a whistleblower but worried your own wrongdoing will prevent it? If so, Tuesday’s decision by a federal court in Texas should come as welcome news. In that long-running False Claims Act case, the court rejected a...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Lessons From Omnicare Settlement In 'Swapping' Cases

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On June 25, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had settled with Omnicare Inc. in two matters alleging that kickbacks resulted from below-cost discounts offered to skilled nursing homes as an inducement to select...more

Cozen O'Connor

We Don’t Need No Intervention: Qui Tam Relator in Omnicare Wins Big Without DOJ

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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the settlement of two qui tam whistleblower lawsuits against Omnicare Inc., the largest nursing home pharmaceutical and pharmacy services vendor in the nation....more

Stoel Rives LLP

In Case You Missed It - Interesting Items for Corporate Counsel (Cumulative) - March 13, 2014

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled in Lawson v. FMR LLC that the whistleblower provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act protect employees who work for contractors and subcontractors of public companies and not just employees...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

U.S. Supreme Court Round-Up: Sun Capital Cert Denied, Omnicare Cert Granted and Whistle-Blower Protection Extended

As first discussed in July 2013 the First Circuit Court of Appeals held in Sun Capital Partners III, LP, et al. v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry Pension Fund that a Sun Capital Partners private equity fund (Sun...more

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