Anti Kickback

In November 2020, Doctor’s Choice Home Care, Inc., and two of its former executives, agreed to pay $5.15 million to resolve False…

A recent report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reviewed studies that estimated the association between the receipt…

Along with the two other rules that we previously wrote about (the MFN rule and the AKS safe harbor rule), on November 20, 2020,…

On November 20, 2020, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a…

The United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued a “Special Fraud Alert:…

On October 6, 2020, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York announced a prison sentence in the case of…

Earlier this year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Wheeling Hospital, Inc. agreed to pay $50 million to resolve…

On October 20, 2020, Shanelyn Kennedy, a medical assistant from Scranton, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to one count of conspiring to…

In mid-October 2020, Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (MMSI) agreed to pay $18 million to resolve allegations that the company violated…

Violations of healthcare fraud and abuse laws are under much scrutiny and not taken lightly by the government. In recent years,…